Isolationcast #23: The Luminary Bakery on keeping a social enterprise afloat in lockdown and that surprise visit from Meghan Markle
As some of you know, I was meant to be getting married next weekend. I'm not anymore - we've postponed - but as it happens this episode has a bit of wedding theme, since Luminary Bakery are making my cake! More importantly, they have also just published a brilliant new cookbook, Rising Hope: Recipes and Stories from Luminary Bakery. If you aren't familiar with them, they are a bakery and cafe with branches in Stoke Newington and Camden - and are an incredible force for good, training women who've experienced severe disadvantage, from homelessness to domestic violence, in baking and patisserie - and thereby offering them a future route to employment. You might remember them from the visit they received from the Duchess of Sussex (she also featured them in her guest-edited edition of Vogue). I loved chatting to Rachel Stonehouse and Kaila Johnson from their team about all of this - as well as the challenges presented by the lockdown, both in terms of finances and maintaining contact with the vulnerable women they work with. Thank you Rachel and Kaila for opening up. I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I did. Twitter: @aliceazania / @LuminaryBakery Instagram: @aliceazania / @luminarybakery Buy the book: https://luminarybakery.com/pages/luminary-cookbook Edited by Chelsey Moore