40% Exclusive Discount: The Platinum Jubilee Cookbook by Ameer Kotecha

Spectator Club members can enjoy a 40% discount on the official cookbook of The late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by The Spectator contributor Ameer Kotecha, using the code PJC40 at the online checkout, making it just £18 including free p&p for UK customers. RRP £30.

Released in April last year to celebrate Her late Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee, the book features 70 recipes from British diplomatic missions around the world, alongside profiles of Great British ingredients and anecdotes of culinary diplomacy.

With a joint foreword by Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort, the book brings together recipes – many of them served during Royal Visits – that are proudly British, inspired by local influences from the embassy's host country, or a fusion of the two. Throughout, it shows off the spectacular food and drink produce found within our shores that our embassies are proud to showcase around the world. Alongside the recipes, stories abound of culinary diplomacy in action. Contrary to the clichés, you will not find an Ambassador's table piled high with Ferrero Rocher, but food is nonetheless central to the diplomatic cause. Ameer Kotecha delves into the Foreign Office archives to reveal diplomatic dinner party anecdotes through the years – the good, the bad and the highly entertaining – and provides contemporary stories of food being used as a potent diplomatic tool.