Come and meet the multi-award-winning food and travel writer Caroline Eden on the occasion of the publication of her newest book, Green Mountains: Walking the Caucasus with Recipes, which weaves together the enchanting geography and the cult of the kitchen found in Armenia and Georgia. She will share her tales of testing hikes and unpredictable terrain, punctuated by the foods she ate for respite – citrus, tea, apricots, mountain greens and magical cheeses – and the stories she uncovers.

This event will be hybrid.

About the Speaker

Caroline Eden is a writer focusing on Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. She contributes to various publications, including the Financial Times and the Guardian. Caroline’s books have won the André Simon Food Book award, the Guild of Food Writer’s Food Book Award, and the Art of Eating Prize 2020, as well as being shortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason awards. She lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

About the book:

Green Mountains charts a series of invigorating walks from the stormy sunbaked valleys of southern Armenia to the jagged peaks of northern Georgia. Along the way, epic landscapes and fascinating cities come alive via encounters with priests, fruit pickers, tea harvesters, legendary singers, chess masters as well as the maverick artists and heroic alpinists of the past.

The final book in her ‘colour trilogy’, following on from her multi-award-winning books, Black Sea and Red Sands, in Green Mountains author Caroline Eden also reflects on 10 years of researching and writing these books, set most recently against the dark backdrop of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

With meticulously researched histories, a catalogue of recipes from her travels, and rich, compelling stories, this is a travel book like no other.