Bridget & Winnie’s Book Club – Tuesday 29th July
July Book: Takeaway: Stories from a childhood behind the counter, by Angela Hui
Hosted the last Tuesday of every month, join our very own Bridget and Winnie for the Honey & Co Book Club. We’ll meet monthly and read a mix of food writing, memoir and food in fiction. In June the book club book we'll be discussing is Takeaway: Stories from a childhood behind the counter, by Angela Hui, and we'd love suggestions for future reads.
Arrive at 6.30pm for a drink and we'll get going at 7pm. The Book Club will be a relaxed conversation, with lots of opportunity for chats individually and in the wider group. Feel free to bring a friend or come alone, we are a friendly bunch! The deli counter will be open until if you want a bite to eat or you can head across the road for a meal at Honey & Co. Bloomsbury afterwards.
Location: Honey & Co Studio, 47 Lambs Conduit Street, Bloomsbury, WC1N 3NG
Date: Tuesday 29th July
Timings: doors open 6.30pm for 7pm start
Price: £5, including drink on arrival
Please note tickets are non-refundable.
About The Book
An eye-opening memoir revealing the stories behind living in and running a Chinese takeaway.
Growing up in a Chinese takeaway in rural Wales, Angela Hui was made aware at a very young age of just how different she and her family were seen by her local community. From attacks on the shopfront (in other words, their home), to verbal abuse from customers, and confrontations that ended with her dad wielding the meat cleaver; life growing up in a takeaway was far from peaceful.
But alongside the strife, there was also beauty and joy in the rhythm of life in the takeaway and in being surrounded by the food of her home culture. Family dinners before service, research trips to Hong Kong, preparing for the weekend rush with her brothers - the takeaway is a hive of activity before a customer even places their order of 'egg-fried rice and chop suey'.
Bringing readers along on the journey from Angela's earliest memories in the takeaway to her family closing the shop after 30 years in business, this is a brilliantly warm and immersive memoir from someone on the other side of the counter.
About The Joy Season
Honey & Co Studio launches in May with The Joy Season, the first programme of in-person events. With the single purpose of bringing more joy—because who can argue with more joy?—the season is all about taking up new hobbies, discovering new things, meeting new people, and exploring everyday pleasures. Sarit and Itamar will share their passion for ceramics—a pastime they took up during lockdown and which they now obsess over in their spare time—by leading a hands-on pinch pot making class, and they’ve invited a whole host of creatives to share their passions and pleasures through classes and workshops. From kimchi making to life drawing, from reading a good book to lino printing, there is something for everyone, all carefully curated.
Please note tickets are non-refundable.
