While not everyone has the chance to voyage to far-off lands and indulge in native delicacies, it's often that these world cuisines find their way to us. Whether through a local restaurant, a takeaway order, or a homemade culinary adventure, we’ve become familiar with the flavours of Italy, China, or India. But what about venturing into the unexplored? How about diving into the culinary treasures of a small country, once the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire, boasting a wine-making legacy spanning millennia? Welcome to the rich cuisine of Georgia! Explore its unique recipes, crafted with easily attainable ingredients, which might just find a permanent spot in your culinary rotation. Ready to tantalize your taste buds? Why not go Georgian tonight?

Over 100 recipes from Georgia and beyond.

NEW Updated Edition Winner of the Art of Eating Prize 2020 Winner of the Guild of Food Writers' Best Food Book Award 2019 Winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Food and Drink Book Award 2019 Winner of the John Avery Award at the André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards for 2018 Shortlisted for the James Beard International Cookbook Award ‘The next best thing to actually travelling with Caroline Eden – a warm, erudite and greedy guide – is to read her. This is my kind of book.’ – Diana Henry ‘Eden’s blazing talent and unabashedly greedy curiosity will have you strapped in beside her’ - Christine Muhlke, The New York Times 'The food in Black Sea is wonderful, but it’s Eden’s prose that really elevates this book to the extraordinary... I can’t remember any cookbook that’s drawn me in quite like this.’ – Helen Rosner, Art of Eating judge This is the tale of a journey between three great cities – Odesa, Ukraine’s celebrated port city, 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 Odesa to Bessarabia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey’s Black Sea region, exploring interconnecting culinary cultures. From the Jewish table of Odesa, to meeting the last fisherwoman of Bulgaria and charting the legacies of the White Russian émigrés in Istanbul, Caroline gives readers a unique insight into a part of the world that is both shaded by darkness and illuminated by light. In this updated edition of the book, Caroline reflects on the events of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent impact of the war on the people of the wider region. How Odesa, defiant against shelling and blackouts, has gained UNESCO protection while in Istanbul, over lunch with a Bosphorus ship-spotter, she finds out about the role of the Black Sea in the war and how Russians are smuggling stolen grain from Ukraine. Meticulously researched and documenting unprecedented meetings with remarkable individuals, Black Sea is like no other piece of travel writing. Packed with rich photography and sumptuous food, this biography of a region, its people and its recipes truly breaks new ground.

While not everyone has the chance to voyage to far-off lands and indulge in native delicacies, it's often that these world cuisines find their way to us. Whether through a local restaurant, a takeaway order, or a homemade culinary adventure, we've become familiar with the flavours of Italy, China, or India. But what about venturing into the unexplored? How about diving into the culinary treasures of a small country, once the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire, boasting a wine-making legacy spanning millennia? Welcome to the rich cuisine of Georgia! Explore its unique recipes, crafted with easily attainable ingredients, which might just find a permanent spot in your culinary rotation. Ready to tantalize your taste buds? Why not go Georgian tonight?

Have you ever wondered what left behind those prints and tracks on the seashore, or what made those marks or dug those holes in the dunes? Life Traces of the Georgia Coast is an up-close look at these traces of life and the animals and plants that made them. It tells about how the tracemakers lived and how they interacted with their environments. This is a book about ichnology (the study of such traces) and a wonderful way to learn about the behavior of organisms, living and long extinct. Life Traces presents an overview of the traces left by modern animals and plants in this biologically rich region; shows how life traces relate to the environments, natural history, and behaviors of their tracemakers; and applies that knowledge toward a better understanding of the fossilized traces that ancient life left in the geologic record. Augmented by illustrations of traces made by both ancient and modern organisms, the book shows how ancient trace fossils directly relate to modern traces and tracemakers, among them, insects, grasses, crabs, shorebirds, alligators, and sea turtles. The result is an aesthetically appealing and scientifically grounded book that will serve as source both for scientists and for anyone interested in the natural history of the Georgia coast.