7:30pm - Claire Thomson, Dear Grace

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Description Please note event tickets are neither exchangeable nor refundable. Wednesday 29th July, 7:30pm (doors open 7pm) Backstory, 71 Balham High Rd, SW12 9AP Claire Thomson is a chef, food writer and constant source of family cooking inspiration to her . She also has a podcast of the same name where she chats and chops with people from other professions about what they cook for dinner. Dear Grace is a book that will really resonate with parents whose children are leaving home for university or moving out for the first time. About the book: “Get two copies, one for your child to cook from when they leave home, and one for you to have a weep with when they do” Phillipa Perry A mother’s recipes and her daughter’s first kitchen adventures away from home. Dear Grace is a warm and wise cookbook written by chef and award-winning food writer Claire Thomson for her daughter as she leaves home for university – one for parents to read, and their soon to be adult children to cook from. Claire began addressing Instagram posts to Grace, each pairing heartfelt advice and reminiscences with a recipe to cook and why it would fit the bill, hundreds of miles away from home. This struck a chord with parents everywhere experiencing similar emotional highs and lows as they sent their children off into adult life.