Kamala Harris owns a Meghan Markle cookbook that was produced by women affected by a tragic London fire.
The Duchess of Sussex wrote the foreword to Together: Our Community Cookbook, a collection of recipes by women whose families lived in Grenfell Tower, a high-rise in West London that burned down in June 2017, killing 72 people.
The book, her first solo project as a working royal, was her idea and was once described as one of her biggest achievements to date when it was published in 2018.
Now Esquire has reported that the book appears in the vice president's cookbook collection. And Daily Telegraph food writer Diana Henry posted a photo to Instagram showing what she described as a stack of Harris' cookbooks, which include Together.
She wrote: "I'm all out for Kamala anyway, but even more so since I saw this photo of a pile of cookbooks in her kitchen."
Meghan discussed coming up with the idea for the cookbook during her Netflix series Harry & Meghan, which came out in December 2022.
She said: "The Grenfell fire left so many families displaced, outside of how many deaths it caused. And I remember saying, 'Well, can we do something? We need to go down there and do something.'
"And so I connected with the women at Al-Manaar, which is a mosque in Grenfell. They were living in these hotels and just given meal vouchers for fast food. Over the course of, like, eight or nine months, I just kept going back and visiting them, and I loved these women so much.
"When I watched these women laughing together and grieving together, I said, 'Why can't you do this every day of the week?' And they said, 'Well, we don't have the funds for it.' I just looked around, I said, 'We should make a cookbook,'" Meghan said.
Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand's biography of Harry and Meghan, Finding Freedom, described the cookbook's significance at the time: "The collection of fifty recipes from women impacted by the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire included a foreword written by Meghan and had hit the top of Amazon's list within hours of its publication five months earlier.
"It was one of Meghan's biggest royal achievements to date, but it had all started with a private visit to a small West London community kitchen that helped families affected by the tragic fire that left seventy-two dead and hundreds homeless, " the book continues.
"Meghan threw on an apron to help a group of women at the Al Manaar Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre, though the plan was never to do anything more than volunteer at the space where women cooked food for families and the local community."
Jack Royston is Newsweek's chief royal correspondent, based in London. You can find him on Twitter at @jack_royston and read his stories on Newsweek's The Royals Facebook page.
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