Clarkson Potter Together: Our Community Cookbook

I can't wait to try out the recipes in this book. The photographs are really striking. I enjoyed the mini biography introducing each contributor's recipe (I hope Munira gets her food van soon!) I really like that these are tried and tested family recipes from across the world. I've never had Ugandan or Yemeni food so it's good to have access to simple recipes from these countries (and lots of others). The book makes appealing food that I might never otherwise get a chance to try accessible to me. I wish there was a community kitchen near me as it's a great way to break down isolation and meet other women from different backgrounds who wouldn't usually meet. More power to the Hubb women - a great cause and a beautiful book at a good price.

The photos are lovely - showing the food and people.I have tried the green rice recipe so far, although I used quorn instead of lamb to make it vegetarian. It was lovely. Visually it looked good, and it certainly tasted good and disappeared quickly in my household.I enjoy cooking and food, but I had never really though to look to places like Iraq for foodie inspiration. That has now changed. But it's not going to stop there - there are plenty of other countries and cultures represented in this book.Reading the introduction it's clear that the Hubb kitchen is a welcoming, inclusive place where women born in many different places have come together and made connections. From Cairo to California, low status to a duchess.If you're looking for 'English' recipes look elsewhere, here is a recipe book written by women who have adopted the UK as their home and who in return are sharing something of themselves and their families. I know writers shouldn't read their online reviews but if any of you do read this - thank you.I have given 4 stars instead of 5 only because when following some of the recipes I spotted they could have done with a little more polish/editing, but anyone used to cooking will have no problem following them.

A beautiful well laid out book. Very touching forward from the Duchess of Sussex and lots of lovely recipes that I cannot wait to try. The cherry on top is that the proceeds are going to a very deserving cause. All those going on about it being Muslim can jog on.

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.

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?