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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

‘The air is raw. I shiver under the faded lavender bathrobe—my mother’s—that I put on every summer when we return to the camp. It smells of her, and of dormancy tinged with mouse droppings. This is my favourite hour in the Back Woods. Early morning on the pond before anyone else is awake. The sunlight clear, flirty, the water bracing, the whippoorwills finally quiet.’ — The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

One day in August, Elle goes for a swim in the pond below The Paper Palace, her family home in Cape Cod where she has spent all her summers. The night before, she had a passionate encounter, or a lifelong desire consumed against the wall of the house that holds all her secrets. So unfolds the story of these twenty-four hours, interlinked with the account of the past 50 years of Elle’s life.

The Paper Palace touches on the difficult topics of abuse, rape and lifelong traumas. This is a deeply emotional book, in which each line is felt vividly. The writing is lyrical and accommodates details even the eye of an eagle could have missed: we could picture and feel Cape Cod through time. From the first page until the last one, The Paper Palace is an odyssey, in images, plots and writing style.

We loved the description of sisterhood between Anna and Elle, and how the dual narrative captured the evolution of their relationship through years of coming of age, traumas and secrets. Peter, Elle’s husband, is alive on the pages and so is Wallace, the mother. Jonas stands moody and we could hear his voice. Its cast makes The Paper Palace an epic family saga and heartfelt read. Yet, we still can’t quite portray Elle, despite the novel being told through her point of view, and we wish we had grasped more of her personality too.

If you’re looking for an engrossing and generous read to curl over during the holidays, The Paper Palace is one to consider!

Irene & Margaux

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