Meghan launches Grenfell recipe book in 1st project as Duchess of Sussex

September 17, 2018 20:20

The Duchess of Sussex has chosen a charity cookbook helping families affected by the Grenfell Tower fire as her first solo project since joining the royal family.

The duchess, 37, is championing Together: Our Community Cookbook, showcasing more than 50 recipes from women from the Grenfell community to celebrate the power of cooking in bringing people together.

The Hubb Community Kitchen evolved after a group of women displaced by the fire gathered in the communal kitchen at Al Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre in west London last summer to prepare fresh food for their families, friends and neighbours.

As they cooked together and shared recipes, word spread of the venture and more women joined in.

The duchess visited in January and has continued to make regular private visits. In a foreword to the book she describes being inspired by the women and their passion for cooking as a way of strengthening communities, as well as how the project empowers women at a grassroots level and how the kitchen is transforming lives and communities through cooking.

Describing her first visit, she writes that she asked how she could help. An apron was quickly wrapped around me, I pushed up my sleeves and I found myself washing the rice for lunch All the aromas percolating in a kitchen filled with countless languages aflutter remains one of my most treasured memories from my first visit to the kitchen.

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