Together is the ultimate guide to reconnecting with the ones you love through the medium of good food. 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. Every dish tells a story of history, culture and family, and each has been developed to use few ingredients and easy methods so that anyone can cook these personal recipes. This charity cookbook, an "homage to life, friendship and togetherness," and fund-raiser, was written by a group of women who cooked favorite dishes of their homelands (the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and eastern Mediterranean) after the Grenfell Tower fire in West London and which killed 72 people and displaced over 223 people in June, 2017. This community of women became known as the Hubb Community, using 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, socializing, swapping recipes and cooking for their neighbors in their time of need.

Jamie shares a super-fun menu for keeping proceedings warm and casual when eating alfresco. With recipes inspired by his travels to Mexico, Jamie cooks up an epic slow-cooked pork belly.Over the chatter and aromas of the kitchen they discovered the power of cooking and eating together to create connections, restore hope and normality, and provide a sense of home. This was the start of the Hubb Community Kitchen. The sleeve reads, "The women of the Hubb Community Kitchen invite you to make their favourite simple dishes for your loved ones. All profits from the sales of Together will go to The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, or its wholly owned trading subsidiary, for the benefit of the Hubb Community Kitchen, helping widen its reach to others in the community, and enabling similar projects to continue transforming lives through the power of cooking." Together: Our Community Cookbook" is pretty great. I loved all of the color photos that accompanied the recipes, the foreword by HRH The Duchess of Sussex, and also the community members who added little personal anecdote before getting into the recipes. It made it seem as if a friend is sharing a recipe with you. 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. Why this has come up in a search for a book by Ms Markle. This was written by a group of women who survived an awful tragedy and did something positive and life affirming by bringing people together via food. Doesn’t food play an important role in bringing people together? So they put together a cookbook to raise money for their community.

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. The recipe was fairly straightforward: you combine the dry ingredients then add the eggs and remaining items.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. Louise Moore, Penguin RoundHouse says, “Who isn’t desperate to share a meal with friends and family they haven’t seen in far too long? And who better to inspire and help us than Jamie. We couldn’t be more excited to publish Together in September.”

What a wonderful project and partnership! It’s wonderful to see a community come together through food and love. As an ELL teacher I really enjoyed reading about some of the traditional dishes of my student’s families! I really want to try some of these myself in my newly remodeled kitchen! I want to start with the avocado dip since it received such high praises from Meghan and an Ethiopian dish! 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. Together is a real homage to the great home feast, something I have really missed sharing with friends and family over the past year. So many people find real joy in a shared meal, have rediscovered a love of cooking or perhaps even given it a go for the first time. So this book is all about arming readers with easy recipes for dinner parties, celebrations, special occasions, or just a good old get together with their nearest and dearest. I wanted the recipes to feel like a culinary light at the end of the tunnel, where food can be enjoyed and savoured. This is about giving you an excuse to get the people you love around the table again. ” Jamie Oliver

All profits from the sales of this book will help the Hubb Community Kitchen to strengthen lives and communities through cooking. The recipes in Together come not from Markle, but from the women of the Kitchen, with each dish telling the story and history of the recipe. Fear not though, they’re also entirely approachable, even for the novice cook, with most just requiring a few ingredients, and they are easy enough to replicate wherever in the world your kitchen is.