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Nhean Haynes de Domecq talks to publisher and library director Jennifer Ballantine Perera about the history of her merchant family and the food recipes handed down through the generations of the Gibraltarian family. Haynes de Domecq is a member of the Saccone family, one of Gibraltar’s key merchant families of the last two centuries.  In Rock Cakes and Other Delights, she weaves together the story of her family and of Gibraltar with the family recipes that have been handed down through the generations.

Family members began keeping recipe notebooks in the 1840s. They helped Haynes de Domecq to look back at the lives of members of the Saccone family but also to give an insight into a time of immense social and political change in Gibraltar. There will be an opportunity to taste food made with some of the recipes in the book. Ballantine Perera is director of the Gibraltar Garrison Libraryand founder of Calpe Press, an independent publishing house in Gibraltar and publisher of Rock Cakes and Other Delights.