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From Reading with love: Gurkha cookbook backed by Dame Joanna Lumley celebrates 12 years of SSAFA friendship.
A cookbook bringing together British and Nepali family recipes is celebrating more than a decade of friendship between the Gurkha community and SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, in Reading.
All proceeds from the cookbook support the welfare of the Armed Forces and their families, with the project raising funds for @ssafaofficial and @gurkhawelfaretrust.
The Kukri Kitchen Cookbook brings together the flavours, memories and friendships that have grown through the SSAFA Reading Gurkha Ladies Project over the past 12 years.
Featuring a foreword by SSAFA Honorary Ambassador and Gurkha campaigner Dame Joanna Lumley, the cookbook celebrates the Reading Gurkha Ladies Project, which was established to help the wives of retired Gurkhas feel at home in the UK, often thousands of miles from Nepal and the people, places and traditions they know.
Through shared meals, celebrations, day trips and cultural exchange, Gurkha families and volunteers have developed friendships that cross generations and cultures.
Recipes have been exchanged alongside stories and traditions, inspiring a cookbook that reflects the warmth and diversity of the community. Among them are Amna’s Lamb Rogan Josh, Nicci’s Milk Balls with Salty Tea Pistachios and Margaret B’s Bara Brith.
In her foreword, Dame Joanna Lumley, who has long supported the Gurkha community, pays tribute to the women involved in the project and the friendships that have flourished.
"What makes this book of recipes so appealing is that it is a collection of favourite dishes from people whose lives and kitchens are fundamentally very different.
"I am overwhelmed with admiration for the Gurkha Ladies, and all those who help them to speak and write in English. They never stop laughing!"
At £18 per copy, plus £2.60 postage and packaging, the Kukri Kitchen Cookbook offers readers the chance to celebrate the Gurkha community and support the #armedforces community in a practical and meaningful way.
To order your copy, please email [email protected]
A cookbook bringing together British and Nepali family recipes is celebrating more than a decade of friendship between the Gurkha community and SSAFA, the Armed Forces charity, in Reading.
All proceeds from the cookbook support the welfare of the Armed Forces and their families, with the project raising funds for @ssafaofficial and @gurkhawelfaretrust.
The Kukri Kitchen Cookbook brings together the flavours, memories and friendships that have grown through the SSAFA Reading Gurkha Ladies Project over the past 12 years.
Featuring a foreword by SSAFA Honorary Ambassador and Gurkha campaigner Dame Joanna Lumley, the cookbook celebrates the Reading Gurkha Ladies Project, which was established to help the wives of retired Gurkhas feel at home in the UK, often thousands of miles from Nepal and the people, places and traditions they know.
Through shared meals, celebrations, day trips and cultural exchange, Gurkha families and volunteers have developed friendships that cross generations and cultures.
Recipes have been exchanged alongside stories and traditions, inspiring a cookbook that reflects the warmth and diversity of the community. Among them are Amna’s Lamb Rogan Josh, Nicci’s Milk Balls with Salty Tea Pistachios and Margaret B’s Bara Brith.
In her foreword, Dame Joanna Lumley, who has long supported the Gurkha community, pays tribute to the women involved in the project and the friendships that have flourished.
"What makes this book of recipes so appealing is that it is a collection of favourite dishes from people whose lives and kitchens are fundamentally very different.
"I am overwhelmed with admiration for the Gurkha Ladies, and all those who help them to speak and write in English. They never stop laughing!"
At £18 per copy, plus £2.60 postage and packaging, the Kukri Kitchen Cookbook offers readers the chance to celebrate the Gurkha community and support the #armedforces community in a practical and meaningful way.
To order your copy, please email [email protected]
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