Jack Monroe: On Self-Care and Social Change at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2022

The Open University is proud to sponsor Jack Monroe: On Self-Care and Social Change chaired by Kit de Waal at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2022.

To call Jack Monroe a cookbook writer would be to undersell her by several degrees of magnitude. From being a struggling single mother on a microbudget, she has built a career helping those who society has left behind.

Fresh from pressuring supermarkets to scrap price hikes and cooking with Marcus Rashford, she’s here to talk about systemic change, the cost-of-living crisis and Good Food for Bad Days, her book of ‘depressipes’, or nourishing meals for low energy, brainfog days. Chaired by Kit de Waal.

Tickets available via the Edinburgh Book Festival website. Available live, then on-demand after the event. Pay what you can to watch in-person or online.

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