Meghan backs Grenfell charity cookbook scheme
THE Duchess of Sussex has launched her first solo project, a charity cookbook by Grenfell Tower’s community chefs.
Meghan has written the foreword to Together, a collection of global recipes by women from the Grenfell community and others, which aims to raise funds to expand their culinary work at the Al-Manaar mosque.
The idea for the book came from the Duchess in January, during the first of a number of private visits to the Hubb Community Kitchen where, in the aftermath of the blaze, women came to prepare food for friends and families or socialise.
On that initial visit Meghan prepared food with the other women, who have a range of backgrounds from Russia and Tanzania to Syria and Bangladesh.
In her foreword the Duchess writes: “In 2017, I had watched the Grenfell Tower tragedy unfold on the news; I was in Canada at the time, sharing the global sentiment of shock and sympathy for what this community was enduring, while also deeply wanting to help.
“Fast-forward seven months, and I was set to meet some of the women affected by the fire, at a community kitchen in Al-Manaar.”
Meghan added: “An apron was quickly wrapped around me, I pushed up my sleeves, and I found myself washing the rice for lunch.”
The Duchess is pictured on the book’s cover, dishing out meals or helping to carry food at the kitchen based in North Kensington.
On Thursday when the book goes on sale in shops Meghan will stage a launch event at the palace, attended by husband Harry and some of the all-women cooks who provided family recipes for the project.