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This cookbook showcases 50+ recipes from women from the Hubb Community Kitchen, at the Al Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre in West London. The community kitchen serves a number of families affected by the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire.
Money raised from book sales will allow the community kitchen to be open 7 days a week and reach more people in the community. Their goal is to raise £250,000 (approx USA$390,000), by selling at least 50,000 copies of the book. Any additional funding will be distributed to other related projects in the area.
Meghan's forward is 3 pages long and talks about her introduction to the Hubb Community Kitchen, along with her own cooking experience growing up.
"Together is more than a cookbook. This is a tale of friendship, and a story of togetherness. It is a homage to the power of cooking as a community, and the recipes that allow us to connect, share and look forward.
In January 2018, as I was settling in to my new home of London, it was important to me to get to know organizations working in the local community. I made a quiet trip to Al-Manaar, a mosque close to the Greenfell community. [...]
The kitchen was opened after the Grenfell tragedy, offering women who had been displaced and the community around them a space to cook food for their families. Their roles as matriarchs united them across their cultures; the kitchen provided an opportunity to cook what they knew and to taste a memory of home, albeit homes some had recently lost. [...]
I immediately felt connected to this community kitchen; it is a place for women to laugh, grieve, cry and cook together. Melding cultural identities under a shared roof, it creates a space to feel a sense of normalcy – in its simplest form, the universal need to connect, nurture, and commune through food, through crisis or joy – something we can all relate to.[…]
Through this charitable endeavor, the proceeds will allow the kitchen to thrive and keep the global spirit of community alive. [...]"
- HRH The Duchess of Sussex, excerpted from Together: Our Community Cookbook (Ebury Press, hbk)
The book will be released later this month. You can order your copy today: https://amzn.to/2pcNyjx
The publisher has included 4 recipes online of their favorite dishes:
- Faiza Hayani Bellili's Caramelised Plum Upside-Down Cake
- Munira Mahmud's Green Chilli and Avocado Dip
- Aysha Bora's Coconut Chicken Curry (Kuku Paka)
- Sanna Mirza's Salad Shirazi
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