Get ready for chef Meghan Markle – the royal gourmand who uses his love of cooking and delicious food to feed and care for the dispossessed.

Kensington Palace announced Monday that Duchess Meghan will hold a book party at the palace on Thursday to launch "Together, Our Community Cookbook", a cookbook celebrating the power of food and community cooking to strengthen communities and bring them together.

And the menu for the party is a delight: home-made coconut chicken curry, eggplant masala and a range of chapatis and shared dips, as well as a caramelized plum cake and mint tea spice.

Meghan is intended to help prepare and serve food.

Prince Harry will be at the party too, but This latest engagement on the royal couple's diary is primarily focused on Meghan's thriving charitable work as a newly created HRH Duchess of Sussex.

Duchess Meghan from Sussex knows the kitchen well. She wrote the preface to a charity cookbook by the women of the Hubb Community Kitchen, shown here with Meghan helping to prepare traditional recipes at the Al Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Center in West London. (Photo: Jenny Zarins / Kensington Palace / AFP / Getty Images)

A recipe book is a charitable project for Meghan: food and cooking are non-controversial topics for members of the royal family, and Meghan is a known lover of both. Judging by his activity in social media before marrying Harry in May. (She had to close her accounts, like her lifestyle blog, The Tig, which was named for her favorite wine.)

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In addition, supporting and raising funds to help displaced people and injure the horrible fire of the Grenfell Tower in London last year has become a new cause for the royal family in general. More than 70 people were killed and thousands were displaced in the fire of June 2017.

To this end, Meghan wrote the preface to the cookbook, which features 50 recipes from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean.

The recipes were compiled by a group of fire-affected women who organized community cooking at the Al Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Center, in West London, to gather and prepare food for their families and neighbors. . and heal by eating together.

Meghan first visited the kitchen in January 2018, before her wedding in May, and continued to make regular private tours discreet, according to the palace, which has released several unpublished photos of the Meghan kitchen with women from the center .

Meghan liked the way the communal kitchen project has helped women at the grassroots level, according to her preface.

"I immediately felt connected to this community kitchen, it's a place where women can laugh, cry and cook together," she wrote in her preface. By combining cultural identities under one roof, it creates a space to feel a sense of normalcy – in its simplest form, the universal need to connect, nurture and communion through food, crisis or joy – "

Hubb Community Kitchen – hubb means love in Arabic – will be the recipient of proceeds from the sale of the book, which will be released Thursday in Britain. The idea is to help the kitchen stay open and thrive, expand its reach and "maintain the spirit of community in the world," said Meghan in his preface.

At the party, the Hubb women will present personal recipes presented in the recipe book, many of which have been handed down from generation to generation.

The royal couple will sit on freshly prepared food with guests including members of the local community, leaders of the cookbook publisher, Penguin Random House, and representatives of the Cultural Heritage Center Al Manaar Muslim and Royal Foundation.

Meghan and Harry have publicly stated several times that preparing meals together is a favorite pastime. After announcing their commitment in November 2017, he said that he had offered her while they were preparing a roast chicken in her dig at Nottingham Cottage in Kensington Palace.

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