MEGHAN MARKLE supports cookbook to benefit Grenfell victims

In her first solo charity work since she became the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle is supporting a book titled Together: Our Community Cookbook that will benefit the Hubb Community Kitchen, an initiative founded by women affected by the fatal 2017 Grenfell Tower Fire in West London. Markle explained that it is not just a cookbook but also the story of a West London community who gathered together in a kitchen and discovered the healing power of food.

In January 2018, as Markle was settling into her new home of London, she met a group of women whose community had been affected by the Grenfell fire. They had decided to get together to cook fresh food for their families and their neighbours. The Duchess, who wrote the foreword to the cookbook, has continued to visit the Hubb Community Kitchen since then. Proceeds from sales of the book will go towards supporting the community kitchen, helping the organisation to stay open seven days a week to help those affected by the devastation of the fire, which took the lives of 71 victims. In her foreword, the Duchess calls the book 'a tale of friendship' as she shares her long-held passion for cooking and food. She describes the kitchen as cosy and brightly lit and jokes about how it takes fifteen minutes to enter the room due to being greeted by kisses from the women there.