Duchess’s secret ingredient for rebuilding Tig website

THE Duchess of Sussex has shared a lemon olive oil cake recipe amid suggestions that she is preparing to relaunch her lifestyle website.

Meghan is one of several celebrities who have contributed to a cookbook in aid of the World Central Kitchen (WCK), a charity that provides meals to those in need following natural disasters.

In March 2021, the Duchess sent a lemon olive oil cake, made with lemons from her garden, to women working for WCK in Chicago, where they were cooking for the community during the pandemic.

She wrote in an accompanying note: “Perhaps we realise now more than ever that fundamental human moments, like enjoying a meal together, fill us up with more than just food (even if that food is delicious).”

It comes after the Duchess’s application to revive The Tig, the website she founded in 2014 while acting in legal drama Suits, won preliminary approval from US authorities. A new patent application, lodged last February, was published on Feb 14, offering the public a 30-day period to object to the trademark’s registration before it is given the green light in 11 weeks.

The filing reveals that The Tig will feature articles and photographs “in the fields of food, cooking, recipes, travel, relationships, fashion, style, lifestyle, the arts, culture, design, conscious living, and health and wellness”.

It is owned by Frim Fram, the Duchess’s company run by Andrew Meyer, her business manager in Los Angeles.

The Duchess has previously described the blog as “a hub for the discerning palate – those with a hunger for food, travel, fashion & beauty”.

She closed it down in 2017, shortly before her engagement to Prince Harry was announced but is long thought to have been keen to revive it.

“It wasn’t just a hobby, it became a really successful business,” she said in the recent Netflix series Harry & Meghan.