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A Salute to Cooking - Celebrity Recipes in Aid of the Chelsea Pensioners release date

“Take a large amount of the nation’s favourite people, stir in delicious recipes – result – a wonderful cook book”.

As Joanna Lumley’s assessment would suggest, A Salute to Cooking  - a new hardback recipe book published in aid of the scarlet-coated Chelsea Pensioners - has all the ingredients of success.

With over 100 recipes contributed by celebrities, politicians, business moguls and super-chefs everywhere, the resultant mêlée of mouth-watering dishes and succulent snacks is as diverse a bunch of recipes as you’re likely to find sandwiched between two covers and sometimes say as much about the people who contributed them as about the dishes themselves.

Recipes range from the comforting fodder of Boris Johnson’s Cheese on Toast, Joanna Lumley’s elegant Sephardic Orange Cake and James Martin’s sophisticated White Chocolate, Whisky and Croissant Butter to the Duke of Edinburgh’s game contribution of BBQ’d Grouse Stuffed with Haggis. With a cover designed by satirical cartoonist Gerald Scarfe CBE and other contributors including Jamie Oliver, Dame Judi Dench and Jeremy Clarkson, the book looks set to become a modern classic.

Founded in 1682 to care for old and injured soldiers, the Royal Hospital Chelsea is home to some 300 pensioners who have served as soldiers in the British Army with the average age of a Chelsea Pensioner being 83. All proceeds donated from sales of the book will go towards updating the current living accommodation which presently consists of windowless, nine foot square ‘berths’ into modern study bedrooms with en-suite facilities.