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Book Price: £19

Details: Paperback /  240 x 170mm / 100 Pages / Recycled paper extract Cactus cover from G. F Smith with Foilco hot foil matt 709 stamped type / Printed by Pressision and full colour photographs by Rebecca Lupton and Designed by Minute Works   

ISBN 978-1-5272-4030-8

BUY INSTORE

You can buy our cookbook in the following stockists:

Bottega Caruso, Margate, Kent

Chorlton Bookshop, Chorlton

Coffee Cranks Co-Operative, Alexandra Park, Manchester

HOME, Manchester

Epicerie Ludo, Chorlton

Milk & Honey, Oxford Road, Manchester

Oklahoma, Manchester

Station Hop, Levenshulme, Manchester

Trove, Ancoats, Manchester

Trove, Levenshulme, Manchester

FOR DELIVERY

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NOTE: BUYING TWO OR MORE BOOKS FOR DELIVERY TO SAME ADDRESS – if you wish to purchase more than one cookbook for delivery, please email Clare at Clare@heartandparcel.org

NOTE: You will receive a confirmation email from Paypal. Consider this confirmation of your cookbook purchase and do not contact Heart & Parcel until two weeks have passed from order confirmation.

This book has been completely created by ourselves using freelance designers, photographers and huge amount of pro-bono work and volunteers. We are running our own distribution and deliveries. Our resources are precious and limited. We will do weekly post delivery on Saturdays. 

As such, please be patient with your delivery or collection. Please allow a week after this date to receive your copy.

If after two weeks you still haven’t received your cookbook, please email Clare at Clare@heartandparcel.org and she will get back to you as soon as possible.

Download PDF here: Heart & Parcel Cookbook Press Release JUNE 2019

The Heart & Parcel Cookbook // Cook . Eat . Write . Share // June 2019

Paperback / £19 / ISBN 978-1-5272-4030-8 / 240 x 170mm / 100 Pages / full colour photographs 

Levenshulme-based dumpling project Heart & Parcel to publish first ever cookbook in June 2019 in order to continue providing English language support for migrant women in Manchester.

“Dumplings in all cultural forms are nourishing, delicious little parcels perfect for sharing, made with care and many hands”.

The process of making dumplings is a food-making tradition passed down through many cultures, where grandmothers or mothers teach their children how to make dumplings whilst spending time with one another. The humble dumpling brings people together. It is no surprise that different forms of dumplings are made on the eve of many new year’s celebrations around the world. By creating a dumping, you are creating something special. Dumplings in all cultural forms are nourishing, delicious little parcels perfect for sharing, made with care and many hands.

Heart & Parcel is a Manchester based food and women’s project focused on developing English language skills whilst cooking. The project uses dumpling-making as a medium to connect with women from migrant communities around Manchester, practising English whilst sharing stories, experiences, making connections and breaking down barriers.

This cookbook is the result of three years of weekly English language and cooking sessions, where recipes brought in by women, would be presented, cooked together, eaten together, written about and shared. Many of these dishes were showcased at Heart & Parcel’s popular fundraising supper clubs, local markets, catering and open workshops, where the users of Heart & Parcel’s projects could develop their skills further through business, employment and English language.

Over 150 women have benefited from Heart & Parcel’s sessions. Incredible homemade unique dishes normally cooked in many domestic kitchens across Manchester have been shared with us, and now Heart & Parcel would like to share them with you.

The book is a collection of recipes and stories generously offered by some of the women Heart & Parcel works with. The book contains 29 home-cooked recipes from Syria to Greece, Pakistan, to Bangladesh, Ethiopia to Poland, Iraq to Gambia, Morocco to Tibet to with a selection of hot and cold dishes, warming soups, fresh salads, versatile sides and indulgent sweets. Dumplings are the main attraction, showing favourite parcels such as Tibetan steamed momos, Polish pierogi, Chinese jiaozi and Syrian kibbeh.

All dishes celebrate the women’s own identities, their daily lives, memories and experiences. Every nourishing recipe is presented alongside its own story from each woman’s memory. The nature of the stories mean that each page is full of individual takes on traditional recipes and nostalgic memories surrounding the selected foods.

The book is accompanied by stunning photography from local photographer, Rebecca Lupton. Each section contains spreads of the final dishes, photos of the Heart & Parcel women themselves and of the food being lovingly made in their Manchester kitchens.

The Heart & Parcel Cookbook is an essential kitchen cookbook for anyone who agrees that food is much more than what you see on your plate.

If you enjoy reading beyond the recipe and trying new flavours you will appreciate the ethos behind Heart & Parcel. This cookbook is for anyone who recognises the connection of food across the world, whilst also celebrating and respecting those differences that are created through influences from our life stories. This is a book for anyone who believes getting to know more about your community through food.

This book is self-published using only local Manchester-based designers, printers and creators to produce the book.

All profits from the book will go back into Heart & Parcel’s projects, providing further English language provision for women from different communities.

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Publication date: June 2019

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Tastes of Life – a podcast about food, women and stories. Heart & Parcel are publishing their first ever cookbook. Join co-founder Clare Courtney as she visits home kitchens around Manchester to reveal the amazing women and delicious recipes behind it.

 

EPISODE ONE: In this episode we travel to Longsight, Manchester to enjoy a meal and conversation with Shaz and Shamim – two ladies who formed a touching friendship after meeting at a Heart and Parcel session. We also find out the secrets behind the delicious recipes they’ve contributed to the cookbook: Khund Bariyaan and Podina Ki Chutney.  

 

 

EPISODE TWO: In this episode we travel to Middleton in Manchester to meet Dimitra, who bakes her irresistible cake from the Heart and Parcel cookbook, Karidopita. While the cake is in the oven, we learn about the many ways that language and food have shaped Dimitra’s life.

 

 

 

EPISODE THREE: In this episode we’re back to Longsight to meet Hanane, a woman who has played a very special role in Heart & Parcel’s various activities. The conversation explores how adventurous palettes create open minds, expressing love through food, as well as revealing Hanane’s cookbook contribution, her famous Fish Parcels: a Moroccan classic with a twist.

From 4Lunch’s website:

Discover what it takes to run your own food business at 4Lunch’s Recipe for Success events for aspiring foodies, entrepreneurs and community projects in Manchester.

The food and drink scene is thriving and there are many opportunities to get a slice of the action. Come along to find out exactly what it takes to start your own food project from people who’ve made it a success!

In Making it as a community food project, we will be in conversation with Karolina & Clare, the founders of Heart & Parcel, a project bringing migrant women together and helping them improve their English through the making of delicious dumplings from around the world.

Continue reading “Recipe for Success with 4Lunch – Heart & Parcel Founders talk dumplings and community projects.” →

This was an excerpt from a piece of reflective writing  written back in July 2015 by founder and then ESOL tutor, Clare. Although written a while ago, she has decided to share this to contribute to the ongoing conversation of the direction for ESOL provision, and to shed light on the beginnings of the ideology behind Heart & Parcel.

I just finished working for all my ESOL jobs today. It has got me reflecting on a lot of different things. what worked, what didn’t, why, what happened and why.

I mentioned about my recent project leading an ESOL parenting course in an earlier entry. Already facilitating such a class was strange as I know very little about parenting, not having children of my own.

Continue reading “Past Reflections of an ESOL tutor” →