May 2024 News

The Charles Bruce Foundation extends a very special welcome to all of our new friends who signed up for our newsletter through our website recently. The announcement of the soon-to-be-released new book, Humble Pie, attracted the largest increase in subscribership ever. The detailed narrative about food insecurity will also be loaded with recipes from marginalized peoples around the world. Scheduled for release in the fall, it will feature insightful writing from Pat LaMarche and stunning illustrations by Jeremy Ruby. If you have friends who do not yet subscribe to our newsletter and want to be among the first to know about the book's release, forward them a copy of your newsletter and encourage them to click on the subscribe button found below.

What do you do if you a retired professional chef and former Bistro owner from the centre of England who was lucky enough to attend chef school and work in France in the 80s? If you are Chef Archie Pie, you contribute delicious recipes specially crafted for affordability to the upcoming book, Humble Pie (see above). We are honored that such a distinguished chef was willing to provide recipes for this book, and even more grateful that he understood the importance of cost-cutting for the food-insecure. For those who just can't wait to try out Chef Archie's recipes, the button below will take you directly to his famous YouTube page where you can try your hand at classic British fare like sausage rolls or bangers n' mash, or a variety of pastas and breads.

The team of Marianne Romagnoli and Chad Bruce have teamed up for another tasty children's reading treat coming to book stores in June. Those Yucky Mucky Mushrooms serves as the third installment in this book series with each book increasing in reading level as the books' stories progress. This means this new hardcover book is 4 times the size of the first book due to its higher reading level! If you were hoping to get extra copies of her first two books before the new one comes out, we have exciting news for you! Both great stories, The Secret Ingredient and Practically Perfect Pepperoni Pizza are now combined into one softcover volume, Double Stuffed, and it is available NOW online at Whistlestop Bookshop. Order your copy today using the first link below for this order! Both stories only $10! If you would like to pre-order the new book, it will be $16, and you can use the second link below. Happy foraging!