Caroline Eden is a regular contributor to the travel and food pages of The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times and other publications as well as reporting for BBC Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent. Specialising in the former Soviet Union, she regularly talks to audiences about her adventures and has spoken at the Royal Geographical Society and Frontline Club. Her first book 'Samarkand - recipes and stories from Central Asia and the Caucasus' is a food/travel title that was published by Kyle Books in June 2016. It was a Guardian book of the year 2016 and it went on to win the Guild of Food Writers ‘Food and Travel’ award in 2017.