Together: Our Community Cookbook

Some very good Persian recipes highly recommend

I love this book. The recipes are amazingI LOVE IT !!!!

Love love this book! What a beautiful idea and execution of such a tragedy.The stories of these strong courageous women is very moving. Their recipes are absolutely delicious. I hope the proceeds of this book have helped them to rebuild their lives.

Together is a fabulous recipe book which has, quite frankly, blown me away. The recipes are easy yet diverse; and each of the recipes has a little back story to it. Nadia Hussein recommended this book which already sets it in good stead. The recipes have their roots not only in the diverse community that is Grenfell but in Uganda, Russia, Morocco, Iraq, Egypt and more. As an experienced cook, I know immediately that these recipes work and are achievable by any home cook no matter how inexperienced. All the produce is easily available in UK markets, ethnic stores, supermarkets and online. I am starting with Munira’s Egyptian Lamb Fattah - a meal I ate copiously when in Cairo - but more, it has the same sauce that I make for my Koshary but in a less labour intensive method - now why didn’t I ever think of making it that way? I definitely recommend this cookbook.

The recipes didn't appeal to me.

"Together is more than a cookbook. This is a tale of friendship and a story of togetherness. It is a homage to the power of cooking as a community and the recipes that allow us to connect, share and look forward." Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. This is a quote by Meghan from her beautifully written forward to this charitable endeavour (to help The Grenfell Survivors' Good Cause) and which was initiated by her. The truthful and good reviews this book has here when it was first released is before the smear campaign by the media to discredit this book after Meghan and Harry quit the UK. The smear campaign to link this book to terrorism now in contrast to their rave reviews before is a sad reflection on the media and some of their readers. I hope that this review supporting the previous honest assesment of this book will encourage those wishing to buy it a better perspective on its contents. Jaime Oliver has now produced a cookbook called by the same name 'Together' which shows how good ideas always inspire others to copy and follow!

Beautiful and inspiring book which I ordered as soon as I heard about it. Anyone who ordered it not knowing that it is a collection of recipes from the community or that the community in and around the Grenfell Tower is predominantly multicultural has obviously been hiding from the media and conversation for well over a year. Frankly, I judge a book by the recipes rather than by a named chef (though there's plenty of named chefs I will avoid due to crap recipes) and the recipes in this book are incredibly tempting. I will definitely be making most if not all once I work out how to make the meat ones vegetarian. I was delighted to find recipes for food I remembered from childhood (I'm a white Scot whose family spent decades in Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Bahrain) though if anyone can track down a recipe for what we knew as manna - a sort of cross between coconut ice and tablet - I will be in their debt for life. Royal Foundation, please make this a start of a series of charity cookery books for the multicultural and/or disadvantaged communities of the UK! Oh, to the one-star racist ignoramus - did you know that the first fish and chip shop in London (and possibly the first to put the two together) was opened by a Jewish immigrant only in the 19th century? Traditional UK foods for me are a lot older... Love this book: everyone buy it for yourself, buy it for your friends and family, enjoy making and eating these wonderful foods that contribute to this melting pot of a nation of ours. Oh, Your Royal Highness, any chance of your grandmother and mother's recipes because they sound delicious too?

An amazing and varied selection of ethnic recipes - I have literally cooked half of them! Warmly recommended.