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We are Irene and Margaux, Londoners by choice, Italian and French by birth. We once lived together in a kitchen with salmon pink walls, where we started a book club on Sunday afternoons and welcomed our guests to a feast based on the book of the month. As the pandemic put a halt to our in-person Sundays, we turned the Salmon Pink Kitchen into the virtual space it is today, in the form of a website, Instagram account, monthly newsletters and podcasts and virtual bookclubs.

The Salmon Pink Kitchen is a book-club and culinary community that reclaims the kitchen as a political space for women. In the SPK, we celebrate all things tasty and geeky so minds and bodies are fed equally.

If you’d like to join our book club and read with us, head to our bookshop via Bookshop.org where you can browse our reading lists and support our work by buying a book through us.

Bienvenue to our virtual salmon pink kitchen, where you’re all a casa!

Irene & Margaux

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latest from the blog:

25 September 2022I saw Wendy fly around the Big Ben: a decade in London by Irene

12 February 2022Bedtime Story With an Amaro by Margaux

27 November 2021A Recipe for Homecoming in Three Escargots by Margaux

17 October 2021Pizzeria La Rocca: story of a town by Irene

14 August 2021On Making Pasta When I cannot go Dancing by Margaux

20 June 2021‘Punch the dough down and let it rise’: a bread update by Margaux

29 May 2021Stamped Melons: a carte postale from Cannes by Margaux

22 May 2021My family’s pantry: nutmeg and Parmesan by Irene

14 May 2021your salmon pink travel armchair: the books we bought as we returned to bookshops

Couscous in three steps, or two if you are using canned chickpeas:

In a pan, fry up a garlic clove (whole) with some olive oil. You can add some herbs too. Add cavolo nero and carrots, swirl around until the veggies have softened. Remove the garlic and pour in some tomato sauce. Lower the heat, simmer.

If you’re using dried chickpeas, soak them in cold water overnight. The next day, while the veggies and tomato sauce simmer, bring water to the boil with half an onion and a sprig of rosemary and cook the chickpeas for approx. 40 minutes. Combine chickpeas and tomato sauce in the pan. Otherwise, you can pour the canned chickpeas into the tomato sauce without boiling them beforehand.

Cook the couscous following package instructions. Serve, and bon appétit!

Irene & Margaux

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One of our favourite bookshops is located in Florence, @todomodolibri. At Todo Modo, you can find books, coffee, food, wine, cherry booksellers and a brilliant collection of secondhand books. We love to spend an entire afternoon there, with our laptop, an espresso and a bottle of chinotto, sitting on the wooden stairs at the back. @margauxvlln started the new year at that spot and stumbled into this brilliant US edition of M.F.K. Fisher’s The Boss Dog. We had never heard of this title, yet we’re Fisher fans; what a ride!!

The novella follows an American mother and her two daughters during an entire year when they live in Aix-en-Provence in France. Soon after they arrive, the family steps into an unusual café where they meet a dog, ‘with a fat rear, mostly the kind of terrier called yippy, part Fox and part Boston and part Mystery.’ His superior air makes the girls call him ‘The Boss Dog’ and the story unfolds with the protagonists following the dog around town... Part fantasy, part autobiography, it’s one for the absurdity of living abroad and of life in general. It reads quickly and the pages are full of Fisher’s trademark wittiness. The Boss Dog comes highly recommended for a stress-relieving, quick read 🐕📚

We’re curious to hear if you’ve read some of Fisher’s fiction books? Let us know in the comments.

Irene & Margaux

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