Secret Dishes From Around the World – Cookbooks 1, 2 and 3!

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A celebration of the diversity of food, art and community, our Secret Dishes From Around the World fundraising cookbook trilogy is the perfect gift – for yourself or for a loved one! All proceeds support our non-profit social enterprise as we scale up our fight against food poverty nationwide.

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Beautiful Fundraising Cookbooks

Over the years, sales of our Secret Dishes From Around the World cookbooks have raised vital funds to support our fight against food poverty. The trilogy presents over 80 dishes from a huge variety of cuisines – using familiar ingredients to create exciting new flavours. Each cookbook includes original artwork, giving the series a unique style.

The original Secret Dishes From Around the World (2019) is packed full of vegetarian and vegan recipes and beautifully illustrated by Libby Element. Libby is a talented Manchester-based illustrator who works with acrylics. She is fascinated by natural textures and forms, and her attention to detail brings the recipes to life.

This book presents a refreshing diversity of recipes; it includes vegetarian and vegan recipes from traditionally veggie-friendly cuisines, such as Indian. But it also includes dishes from countries that aren’t commonly included in plant-based recipe books – like Papua New Guinea!

Secret Dishes From Around the World 2 (2020) contains recipes from 20 countries, attractive food photography and original designs by 20 artists based in Greater Manchester, Cheshire & North Wales. There’s advice from our head chef in the ‘Chef’s Tips’ section, a guide to kitchen utensils and a timeline of how our Community Cookery School navigated the first and second lockdowns in 2020.

The artists who contributed to this cookbook were Jack Whitelegg, Natalija Stolarova, Bernice Tackley, Sam Tomson, Michael Wylie, Tommy Bradley, Lydia Fernandez-Arias, Victoria Rebekah, Emma Reynolds, James Blinkhorn, Alexandra Boocock, Peter Lang, Jessica Owen, Rory Spencer, Jamie Griffiths, Christian Turner, Holly Gorne, Emily Gibbs, Amberley Garland and Ollie Hirst.

In our second cookbook you’ll discover a selection of our favourite recipes from Lebanon, Tunisia, Italy, Peru, Mexico, Thailand, Eritrea, Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, Mali, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Japan, Philippines, Turkey, Poland, Pakistan, New Zealand, Jamaica and Cuba.

Secret Dishes From Around the World 3 (2021) features 40 exciting recipes from 20 countries, beautiful food photography and unique artwork! We collaborated with 20 partner arts charities and social enterprises across the UK, in locations where we’re developing Bounceback teams, to help produce the cookbook.

The arts charities and social enterprises that contributed artwork to this book were ArtsEkta (Belfast), The GAP Arts Project (Birmingham), Hive (Bradford), The Rocket Artists (Brighton), BLACK* Artists On The Move (Bristol), Women’s Arts Association Wales (Cardiff), Arty-Folks (Coventry), Able Arts CIC (Edinburgh), Bazooka Arts (Glasgow), Absolutely Cultured (Hull), Pyramid of Arts (Leeds), Pedestrian (Leicester), Homotopia (Liverpool), ActionSpace (London), Venture Arts (Manchester), The Biscuit Factory Foundation (Newcastle), ArtWorks South Yorkshire (Sheffield), Sunderland Family Arts Network (Sunderland), The Art House (Wakefield) and Accessible Arts & Media (York).

In our third cookbook you’ll find 40 recipes (2 per country) from China, Iran, Bangladesh, South Korea, Tanzania, Morocco, Haiti, Chile, Ukraine, Syria, France, Germany, Ghana, Croatia, Venezuela, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, USA and Libya.

A celebration of the diversity of food, art and community, the Secret Dishes From Around the World trilogy is the perfect gift – for yourself or for a loved one! All proceeds support our non-profit social enterprise as we scale up our fight against food poverty nationwide. Thank you for your continued support!