A royal cookbook
Youmanity reports on a delicious news: a cookbook with recipes collated by the Grenfell women - in collaboration with Meghan Merkle!
In the face of adversity, the women of the Grenfell fire got together to introduce a social kitchen, the Hubb Community Kitchen - to cook together, to be together. The Hubb gradually grew to the point that, when the Duchess of Sussex, visited the Hubb in private, she suggested the talented cooks shared their delicious recipes with the outside world.
The duchess then helped finding a publisher, while the Royal Foundation - a charity set up by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex - provided legal and administrative back-up.
In her foreword, the Duchess of Sussex stated that the Hubb brought cultures together under one roof and allowed people to enjoy "the universal need to connect, nurture, and commune through food, through crisis or joy".
"I immediately felt connected to this community kitchen; it is a place for women to laugh, grieve, cry and cook together," Markle, who has continued to make regular private visits to the kitchen, said in a statement.
The Duchess championed the cookbook project as a way of ensuring the kitchen could operate more regularly, and it is hoped that profits from the sales will help keep the kitchen open up to seven days a week.
The Hubb Community Kitchen was designed to provide a place for the Grenfell women in which to cook for their families who lived in hotel rooms after the fire. Now, more than a year late, the kitchen has also become an important support network.
