The Duchess of Sussex Supports a Charity Cookbook

Yesterday, The Duchess of Sussex announced her first solo project as a member of the Royal family. The project is a charity cookbook which will help the community affected by the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The cookbook is supported by The Royal Foundation and published by Penguin Random House companies and its name is ‘Together: Our Community Kitchen’. The cookbook includes more than 50 recipes from women whose community was affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.

Last summer, a group of women got together in a communal kitchen at the Al Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre in West London, where they could prepare fresh food for their families, friends and neighbours. As they cooked together and shared recipes, they began to connect, heal and look forward as a community. Word spread and more women joined in – this was the start of the Hubb Community Kitchen.

The proceeds from the book will support the Hubb Community Kitchen and will enable it to stay open and to thrive.

The Duchess of Sussex first visited the kitchen in January 2018 and 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 supported the cookbook project as a way of ensuring the kitchen can continue transforming lives and communities through cooking. Duchess wrote the foreword for ‘Together’ which includes the women’s own personal recipes from across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean.