Kensington Palace has announced Meghan Markle’s first solo venture as a royal, announcing the duchess was behind a new charity cookbook.
The cookbook, ‘Together: Our Community Cookbook‘, features recipes from Muslim women of The Hubb Community Kitchen in West London who cooked fresh food after the Grenfell Tower fire that left 70 people dead.
Kensington Palace announced that the proceeds from the book will support the Hubb Community Kitchen, enabling it to stay open and to thrive.
In a statement, Kensington Palace announced: ‘The Duchess of Sussex first visited the kitchen in January 2018 and has continued to make regular private visits.
‘United by their passion for cooking as a way of strengthening communities, The Duchess was inspired by how the project empowers women at a grassroots level, and championed the cookbook project as a way of ensuring the kitchen can continue transforming lives and communities through cooking.
‘Her Royal Highness has written the foreword for ‘Together’, which features the women’s own personal recipes from across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean.
‘In the introduction, the women of the Hubb Community Kitchen wrote: ‘Our kitchen has always been a place of good food, love, support and friendship. We cook the recipes we’ve grown up with; there’s no stress, and the recipes always work because they have been made so many times – it’s proper comfort food…Swapping family recipes and moments of laughter gave us a sense of normality and home. We named ourselves the Hubb Community Kitchen to celebrate the thing that we all feel every time we meet – hubb means love in Arabic’.’
Meghan also released a personal statement, which reads: ‘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 endeavour, the proceeds will allow the kitchen to thrive and keep the global spirit of community alive.’
You can purchase Meghan’s cookbook here: Together, Our Community Cookbook
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