Queen Camilla's Son Tom Parker Bowles Is Writing a Royal Cookbook

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Queen Camilla's son, Tom Parker Bowles, is publishing a royal cookbook this fall. Cooking and the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III features more than 100 recipes for everything from breakfasts to state banquets, and includes stories about royal chefs and kitchens.

"As a food history geek, I cannot tell you how exciting it has been to write this book," Parker Bowles said in a statement. "To read original recipes in the royal archive in Windsor, and disappear into the lives and reigns (and eating habits) of sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards. But this is not about roast cygnet, ortolans and snipe stuffed with foie gras – rather a proper cookbook, filled with recipes that I’ve loved cooking. And hope that you will too."

Parker Bowles has authored numerous books on food, including a Fortnum & Mason cookbook, but this is his first time delving into the royal world in book form. In 2022, he wrote about the role of royal kitchens ahead of Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee, and around the publication of his book, Time for Tea, he chatted with Town & Country all about the British history of tea. "There is tea as a drink, tea as a meal, tea as etiquette. It is one of the few meals that you can say is wholly British," he explained.

Cooking and the Crown will be published in the UK on September 26, 2024, and in the U.S. on October 22, 2024. You can preorder here.

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