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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.

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

Irene & Margaux

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latest from the blog:

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

11 April 2021your salmon pink travel armchair: our favourite joyful reads about love

1 March 2021your salmon pink travel armchair: our French and Italian reading recs

You know this by now: on Fridays, we cook fish! This week, we’re recommending chef @nieves_barragan1’s recipe for Seafood Rice (as featured in The Female Chef cookbook). The rice is cooked in a bisque - think saucy paella - and the result is a velvety dish.

Nieves’ original recipe is made with monkfish and gurnard, but we used seabream in this instance and we kept the head and bones to sharpen our broth, hopefully making it up for having one type of fish only. As always, we couldn’t resist the call of the tomatoes so we were generous with the tomato purée and we also added 2 extra, fresh 🍅.

🍽Nieves Barragán Mohacho is the chef and co-founder of Michelin-starred @sabor_ldn restaurant. Have you ever been? We cannot wait to go - and this one is high on our list for a future SPK outing!

Irene & Margaux

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‘I was somebody’s daughter once; a village girl with arms strong enough to help her father in the smithy and a mind quick enough to recall her mother’s shopping list in the market. My days were measured by the light in the sky and the chores set before me, with weekly spoken mass in our tiny wooden church. It was a meager existence, but a happy one, full of my grandmother’s ghost stories by the fire and the hope that one day, I would run my own household. I wonder if you would have wanted me if you found me like that: vibrant and loved and alive.’

S.T. Gibson, A Dowry of Blood

We discovered @stgibsonauthor’s lyrical and heart-breaking novel through @miss.fiction and we can’t thank her enough for it.

A Dowry of Blood follows the story of Constanta, a young woman saved on the cusp of death by a stranger who reveals to be none other than Dracula. Reborn into a new, eternal life, Constanta’s story is a story of desire, control and emancipation.

Written as an open letter from Constanta’s first-person, the book takes the reader through Europe across centuries, wars, famines and affairs. But as the marriage welcomes new members, Constanta’s prince shows his true colours and the lavish, empty castles begin to resemble a prison.

Gibson’s writing is magical even in the horrors it often depicts, while being a beautiful depiction of queerness and desire. It’s a novel about coercive control and the effects it has on its victims. A Dowry of Blood is the story of how they survive.

Irene & Margaux 🐟💕

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