January 2021 Great Big Cookbook Club Roundup

As our members know, each month we offer at least four cooking options in our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club. There are other fun cookbook clubs around the interwebs and we’d like to highlight those for those members who might want to cook or bake something other than our choices. We will try to keep you up-to-date on these clubs’ choices by the beginning of each month.

Eat Your Books January selections

• Main Selection: Modern Comfort Food by Ina Garten or The Flavor Equation: The Science of Great Cooking Explained: More Than 100 Essential Recipes by Nik Sharma
• Baking Selection: Pie month: The Book on Pie by Erin McDowell, Pie Camp by Kate McDermott, Pie for Everyone by Petra Paredez, Pieometry: Modern Tart Art and Pie Design for the Eye and the Palate by Lauren Ko or The Pie Room by Calum Franklin
• Online Option: Ina Garten online recipes or Nik Sharma online recipes
• Plant-based Option: Any of our over 40,000 online vegan recipes

See this post for our 2021 year-long books and our options for both January and February 2021. We are voting on March and April books and those will be announced soon.

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Great British Chefs

• January’s selection is: Throwback – cover any books previously selected.
• February’s selection is: Great British Chefs: Hacks: How Chefs Make Dishes Go from Good to Great by the Great British Chefs

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Hardcover Cook is my favorite cookbook subscription box service.

Above are the main Omnivore, Vegetarian and Baking selections. The full ingredients aren’t shown in the photos – for This Will Make it Taste Good there will be sesame seeds included, for East there will also be coriander seeds and rice vermicelli noodles, and for Pie Camp there will also be organic leaf lard and sweetened coconut included.

New selections will be announced in January and will ship on March 1st.

See Hardcover Cook’s other cookbook and ingredient bundles.

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Rainyday Bites – Deborah Balint – Instagram’s first cookbook club –

• January: Simply: Easy Everyday Dishes from the Bestselling Author of Persiana by Sabrina Ghayour
• February: East: 120 Vegetarian and Vegan Recipes from Bangalore to Beijing by Meera Sodha
• March: In Bibi’s Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries that Touch the Indian Ocean by Hawa Hassan and Julia Turshen

January & February Baking Book: Dessert Person: Recipes and Guidance for Baking with Confidence by Claire Saffitz

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Tasting Table Cookbook Club 

• January 2021 – Throwback month!
• Member selected: Cravings and Cravings Hungry for More by Chrissy Teigen
• Admin pick: Cook from any of our previous titles

• February 2021
• Member selected: Jacques Pépin Quick & Simple by Jacques Pépin
• Admin Pick: 7 Ways: Easy Ideas for Every Day of the Week by Jamie Oliver

• March 2021
• Member selected: The Flavor Equation: The Science of Great Cooking Explained: More Than 100 Essential Recipes by Nik Sharma
• Admin Pick: The Double Happiness Cookbook: 88 Feel-Good Recipes and Food Stories by Trevor Lui 

• April 2021
• Member selected: Around My French Table by Dorie Greenspan
• Admin pick: Simply Julia: 110 Easy Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food by Julia Turshen

• May 2021
• Member selected: Milk Street: Cookish: Throw It Together by Christopher Kimball
• Admin pick: Milk Street: Tuesday Nights Mediterranean: 125 Simple Weeknight Recipes from the World’s Healthiest Cuisine by Christopher Kimball

• June 2021
• Member selected: Ottolenghi Simple: A Cookbook
• Admin pick: The Pepper Thai Cookbook: Family Recipes from Everyone’s Favorite Thai Mom by Pepper Teigen and Garrett Snyder

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Saveur Cookbook Club

December and January’s selection is: Pie for Everyone: Recipes and Stories from Petee’s Pie, New York’s Best Pie Shop by Petra Paredez

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Food52 Baking Club

• January, 2021: Black Girl Baking by Jerrelle Guy
• February, 2021: Throw Back Month
• March: A Good Bake by Melissa Weller and Carolynn Carreño
• April: Dessert Person by Claire Saffitz
• 2021 – all year: Patisserie at Home by Melanie Dupuis and Anne Cazor

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Food52 Cookbook Club

• January, 2021: Ottolenghi Flavour by Yotam Ottolenghi, Ixta Belfrage and Tara Wigley
• February, 2021: Throw Back Month
• March: I Cook in Color: Bright Flavors from My Kitchen, and Around the World by Asha Gomez and Martha Hall Foose
• April: Bestia: Italian Recipes Created in the Heart of L.A. by Ori Menashe, Genevieve Gergis and Lesley Suter
• 2021 – Bonus Book: The Flavor Equation: The Science of Great Cooking Explained: More Than 100 Essential Recipes by Nik Sharma

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Kitchn’s Cookbook Club

January’s selection is: Falastin: A Cookbook by Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley

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GET COOKING COOKBOOK CLUB

• January: Eating Out Loud: Bold Middle Eastern Flavors for All Day, Every Day by Eden Grinshpan
• February: Old World Italian: Recipes and Secrets from Our Travels in Italy by Mimi Thorisson
• March: The Honeysuckle Cookbook: 100 Modern California Comfort Recipes by Dzung Lewis
• April: Best of 2020 – any previous book covered in 2020

Baking Book for January through March will be Snacking Cakes: Simple Treats for Anytime Cravings by Yossy Arefi,

Get Cooking Cookbook Club – an Instagram cookbook club. To participate tag your photos with #getcookingcookbookclub and follow the co-hosts Bebe and Steph at Champagne & Cookies and A Whisk and a Spoon respectively on Instagram.

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Salt & Spine is the leading podcast focused on telling the stories behind cookbooks through in-depth, in-person interviews with compelling authors.

• January: Heirloom Kitchen: Heritage Recipes and Family Stories from the Tables of Immigrant Women by Anna Francese Gass
• February: TBA
• March: Simply Julia: 110 Easy Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food by Julia Turshen
• April: What’s Gaby Cooking: Eat What You Want: 125 Recipes for Real Life by Gaby Dalkin

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Great Jones Cookbook Club 

No announcement made for several months will continue to check.

A few other clubs I’ve located:

• Wit and Delight (to learn more about this club you need to sign up here)
• Virtual Cooking Club (to learn more about this club you need to sign up here)
• The Mary Berry Cookbook Club – this is a cookbook club on Facebook run by Mary Berry’s team which focuses on the author’s recipes.