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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

‘My voice goes up in tone when I speak English, it becomes gentler, I articulate words like in a theatre performance. My brain blanks sometimes and I can’t make sense in either language, so I sit in silence, waiting for a reboot. My voice gets more guttural, louder, faster and more confident as I speak Italian. Dialect, slang, swear words, of which I say many, roll out of my tongue almost in relief. I am home and nobody will ask me to repeat. ‘Where are you from?' The waiter at the Pret near my office asks as I wait for my flat white. I pause for a second. Italy. Though I really want to say here, I’m here, this is where I am from.
As this anniversary approached, I found myself following my past self’s steps across the city, tracing the perimeter of those first few months living at a pace that was unknown to me then. It thrilled me, and I wanted to see it all.’

After a decade in London, @neneo93 reflects on what the city meant to her younger self, and how the changes of the past 10 years have shaped her identity, culinary and not, and her idea of home.

To read the full article, choose ‘I saw Wendy fly around the Big Ben: a decade in London’ at the link in our bio.

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