Together: Our Community Cookbook

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Beautiful! A wonderful collection of recipes with pictures. A lovely project and forward just completes it all. Together: Our Community Cookbook is written by the women of the Hubb Community Kitchen, with a very thoughtful and heartfelt foreword by Meghan Markle. “In January 2018, as I was settling in to my new home in London, it was important to me to get to know organizations working in the local community,” she writes in the cookbook foreword. That community outreach is what brought Markle to the Hubb kitchen in Al-Manaar, a place she promptly felt embraced by. “I immediately felt connected to this community kitchen; it is a place for women to laugh, grieve, cry and cook together,” writes Markle. Soon there were women from different cultures all cooking, swapping recipes, talking and laughing. As they cooked, they began to connect, heal and look forward, and have continued to cook together twice a week.

Together is the ultimate guide to reconnecting with the ones you love through the medium of good food. Music for the series was produced by Jamie Oliver & Tobie Tripp, and recorded at Abbey Road Studios. This is such a missed opportunity! Where this is such an awesome cause, this book (difficult to call it a cookbook) is not worthy of what it’s supposed to embrace. I am a food lover of all types of cuisine and have far tastier curries in my recipe box.

Together is a new charity cookbook that showcases 50 delicious recipes from these women, originating from countries all over the world. With support from HRH The Duchess of Sussex, who has worked in the kitchen herself and written the foreword for the title, profit from the sales of the book will help the organisation to continue to strengthen communities with their cooking – and we’re delighted to preview three of these recipes here. So much amazing sounding food. I'll defo be giving the vegetable samosas and the toffee apple crumble a go. The photos of the women and the dishes are amazing, and the little short introduction to each dish by the creater is a feast in itself. Then, you top the whole saucey situation with eggs and serve it from the pan. But not until, I realized, the strong scent permeates your entire being and building: My guests said they smelled what this Duchess was cooking from down the hall. The recipe, which was written by Cherine Mallah, is a tuna, olive, and sun-dried tomato cake. I had to try it—even though "Harry" generally loathes every ingredient it calls for besides cheese. Together is a storybook of this West London community, showcasing over 50 delicious recipes from the women of the Hubb Community Kitchen and including a foreword by HRH The Duchess of Sussex.

Who is the author? Best-selling cookbook author, cookery show star, health campaigner, and the man rightly credited with changing the way Brits cook and eat. Jamie Oliver needs no further introduction.

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After being displaced following the Grenfell tower fire, some of the local women needed a place to cook fresh food for their families. They began to use the kitchen at the Al-Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre, where the women who worked there had been using the facilities to cook for the community. They all shared the kitchen for two days every week, preparing food and eating together. Word spread and more local women began to join in, embracing community and supporting their neighbours in their time of need. If it's cake," he began, "let it be cake! If it's bread, let it be bread. I don't know what I'm working with here." His uncertainty didn't appear to affect his appetite: "I just like food," he explained as he carefully extracted the olives and sun-dried tomatoes, pushed them toward the corner of his plate, and piled the cake's remains onto his fork. "Is there meat in here?" (There wasn't.) Markle simply wrote the forward BUT their are discrepancies about what happened with the money raised.