Celebrating diversity with cookbook for World Food Day 2021
15 October 2021
Do you know about World Food Day?
On 16 October each year the world takes a moment to raise global awareness of agriculture, hunger, and food issues. It’s a day dedicated to food, not only for those who love it but for those who need it. This year, we decide to open a new e-cookbook with a world food category and would like residents to help us fill it with recipes. We plan to publish the e-cookbook in Spring 2022, so there's plenty of time for you to submit your recipes to us.
World Food Day officially marks the anniversary of the creation of the UN's Food Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945. It has traditionally been the day aiming for food security for all. Nobody should ever go to bed hungry. While we acknowledge that we need food for sustenance and survival (and that we all should have access to the food needed to live a healthy life), we also know that it is one of the pleasures of life.
We appreciate our diverse resident base, so as we continue to work on delivering our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Action plan we would like to take the opportunity to celebrate with something special by creating an e-Cookbook for the community, starting with recipes from around the world.
Food often brings people together, and we can all learn something from each-other when it comes to cuisine. Over the coming months we'll be sharing how you can enter recipes for the following sections:
Around the World
The multicultural dishes that celebrate your heritage, religious celebrations and family traditions, which are rarely written down and made delicious just by using feeling as a measurement.
Little Chefs
For the aspiring young cooks and bakers who enjoy being in the kitchen and preparing for adulthood.
Mystery Meals
For the creative chefs who always make a delicious meal whether shopping on a budget, raiding the store cupboard essentials, fridge odds and ends or being savvy with leftovers.
How to get your recipes into the e-cookbook
Whether you have a sweet tooth or prefer something more savoury, you can take part. Simply download and send in your completed recipe forms to get.involved@networkhomes.org.uk up to March 2022.
Download and create your recipe with the template
Support agencies and further resources
If you require support with food security, would like to find out more about limiting food waste, or donating to charities that are working towards ending hunger see below:
The Trussell Trust - Stop UK Hunger
