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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:

12 February 2022Bedtime Story With an Amaro by Margaux

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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

Picnics are one of the things we learned to love during lockdown. It was the only way for us to meet for so long that we had a regular spot at the park near Irene’s house and each week felt like an adventure, away from the walls of our houses for a few hours.

This weekend we're returning to the park with a summer spread, and we wanted to share the menu with you:

* Eggs! Inspired by @emikodavies’ latest cookbook, Cinnamon and Salt, on Venetian cooking, we craved eggs so we boiled and peeled them following Emiko’s advice and topped them with salsa tonnata, which we brought back from a recent trip to Italy, and an anchovy or a prawn. We hadn’t tried them with prawns before and they were such a treat, plenty more recommendations on making your own cicheti in Emiko’s book!
* Salads! It was a very warm evening so freshness was needed. We sliced some juicy tomatoes and tossed them with basil, good olive oil, balsamic and flaky salt. We also had a jar of @boldbeanco butter beans leftover so we combined them with parmesan shavings, basil, a glug of olive oil and a little salt.
* Cheese! A must for our feasts, we followed @cooker.girl’s reels for a cream made with ricotta, sundried tomatoes, basil and olive taggiasche. We had run out of taggiasche, so we used desalted capers instead. Added a little olive oil and some pepper for seasoning. We also served some Gorgonzola to be spread over bread and topped with caramelised onions made quickly before heading out.
* Bread! We love a sourdough loaf here, pictured is from the supermarket, but it’s always a better treat when it comes from @margauxvlln’s baking.
* Quick ready bites! Olives are always on our table and this time we also had some lovely tortilla from the supermarket, which was perfect to mitigate our hunger as we set our picnic blanket.

Grab your drinks of preference and meet us in the park! What are your favourite picnic treats?

Irene & Margaux 🐟💕

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Today we’re continuing our tour in honour of Independent Bookshop Week with @booksaremybag with @margauxvlln’s selection!

‘Since I moved to the UK, indie bookshops have punctuated my journey through the country and the city of London. They’re the places where I’ve found stories to familiarise myself with a new area and the language, met new people when feeling lonely, and from where I’ve walked back home with new memories. For today’s picks, I’m focusing on two bookshops: one that has populated my bedside tables and writing desks over the years and one that has fueled my imagination. As I count the days until my debut novel will be published in the UK, I couldn’t be more grateful for booksellers, their passion and their devotion to make us all readers and writers.

- @pagesofhackney in Clapton: this is the bookshop that has introduced me to London. My first flat was a few streets up and when I picked up the keys, I also received a book voucher for Pages. I didn’t know anyone in London at the time, and there I understood the power of independent bookshops and the community they hold together. They also host fantastic (online and IRL) events, so do check their website out.

- Bath Old Books: there is something extra magical when a bookshop is located at the corner of a street, and I’ll fight you on that. Bath Old Books is narrow but stretches over floors, each wall is covered with shelves, the floors burst with piles of books. First hardcover editions, niche books about sailing and gardening, Panini magazines, a great cookery section (where I found An Omelette and a Glass of Wine by Elizabeth David!) – my kind of playground.’

Have you visited any indie bookshops this week? Let us know about your local or new discovery in the comments!

Irene & Margaux

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