This is the tale of a journey between three great cities Odessa, built on a dream by Catherine the Great, through Istanbul, the fulcrum balancing Europe and Asia and on to tough, stoic, lyrical Trabzon. With a nose for a good recipe and an ear for an extraordinary story, Caroline Eden travels from Odessa to Bessarabia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey s Black Sea region, exploring interconnecting culinary cultures. From the Jewish table of Odessa, to meeting the last fisherwoman of Bulgaria and charting the
It s been a working man s cafe, a 90s celeb magnet and, for the last 7 years, one of London s best-known, best-loved restaurants, with its famous confit potatoes regularly topping lists of dishes you can t miss in London on websites across the globe. On any given night, you will find notables from London s food world propping up the bar or rummaging for bottles of wine in the shop next door. Every week, delicious produce arrives at the restaurant from all over the British Isles: produce which eventuall