May 2023 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary

As our members know, each month we offer several 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 want to get this information out to you so you can prepare and will update when we have any further details. If you have updates or information about any online cookbook clubs, please email jenny@eatyourbooks.com with those details. Thank you.

I will be updating as clubs make their May announcements. Please note that Scrumptious Reads Bookclub in Brisbane, Australia is starting up again. Also, I have removed a few groups that have not been active – i.e., Tasting Table has had no announcements since July etc. If those clubs become active again, I will readd them with their cookbook options.

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Eat Your Books Cookbook Club – May

• Cookbook: Milk Street Noodles: Secrets to the World’s Best Noodles, from Fettuccine Alfredo to Pad Thai to Miso Ramen by Christopher Kimball
• Baking: Sweet Enough by Alison Roman
• Vegan/Veg: East: 120 Vegetarian and Vegan Recipes from Bangalore to Beijing by Meera Sodha or online recipes by Meera Sodha

2023 year long options are:

• Cookbook: Everyday Dorie: The Way I Cook by Dorie Greenspan or A Cook’s Book: The Essential Nigel Slater by Nigel Slater
• Baking: What’s for Dessert?: Simple Recipes for Dessert People or Dessert Person: Recipes and Guidance for Baking with Confidence by Claire Saffitz
• Vegan/Veg Focused: A Modern Way to Eat: Over 200 Satisfying, Everyday Vegetarian Recipes (That Will Make You Feel Amazing) by Anna Jones or Fake Meat: Real Food for Vegan Appetites by Isa Chandra Moskowitz

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Cafe Murano Book Club

Angela Hartnett‘s Cafe Murano Book Club will provide guests with an opportunity to go behind the scenes of these writers’ minds, creative processes, and forthcoming publications. The entire experience – including a welcome cocktail, signature Cafe Murano nibbles and a two-course menu – will be influenced by the speakers’ themes.

More dates to come soon.

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Scrumptious Reads Bookclub – Brisbane, Australia

• May 25 – Cookbook Club Katrina Meynink From Salt to Jam
• Jun 22 – Cookbook Club – Five Go Feasting
• Jul 11 – Cookbook Club – Maggie’s Christmas
• Aug 24 – Cookbook Club – Winter Hotpot

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PLAYING AROUND / XOXO DORIE

Each month Dorie will post a new baking project. She’ll give us all the recipes we need to get started and a place where we can talk about them – Playing Around // xoxoDorie Facebook group.

You can learn all the details here including how to subscribe.

Dorie also has launched a Bake & Tell free group.

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Great British Chefs

• May 2023: Cooking: Simply and Well, for One or Many by Jeremy Lee

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Borough Market Digital Cookbook Club

Find out more about this digital cookbook club here.

• May 2023: Dark Rye & Honeycake: Festival Baking from Belgium, the Heart of the Low Countries by Regula Ysewijn

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

• May: Treasures of the Mexican Table: Classic Recipes, Local Secrets by Pati Jinich
• June: Half Baked Harvest Every Day: Recipes for Balanced, Flexible, Feel-Good Meals by Tieghan Gerard
• May & June Baking Book: Sweet Enough by Alison Roman

• July: Pomegranates and Artichokes: A Food Journey from Iran to Italy by Saghar Saterah
• August: Rambutan: Fresh Sri Lankan Recipes from an Immigrant Family by Cynthia Shanmugalingam
• July & August Baking Book: 100 Morning Treats by Sarah Kieffer

Year long end of month baking book: What’s for Dessert?: Simple Recipes for Dessert People by Claire Saffitz

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Saveur Cookbook Club

• May 2023: Trejo’s Cantina: Snacks, Cocktails, and Amazing Non-Alcoholic Drinks from the Heart of Hollywood by Danny Trejo

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Food52 Baking Club

• May: All About Cookies: A Milk Bar Baking Book by Christina Tosi
• June: More Than Cake: 100 Baking Recipes Built for Pleasure and Community by Natasha Pickowicz
• July: Love is a Pink Cake: Irresistible Bakes for Morning, Noon and Night by Claire Ptak
• August: Throwback – every title covered since the club’s inception is fair game for posting this month.

• Bonus Book 2023 – all year: Delectable: Sweet & Savory Baking by Claudia Fleming

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Food52 Cookbook Club

• May: The Food of Morocco by Paula Wolfert
• June: Getaway: Food and Drink to Transport You by Renee Erickson
• July: Asada: The Art of Mexican-Style Grilling by Bricia Lopez
• August: Throwback – every title covered since the club’s inception is fair game for posting this month.

• Bonus Book 2023: Grist: A Practical Guide to Cooking Grains, Beans, Seeds, and Legumes and Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables by Abra Behrens

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The Cookbook Club

The Kitchn Cookbook Club made an annoucement that it did not have the bandwith to continue running the club and has given it over to the members and renamed it “The Cookbook Club”.

• May 2023: Molly on the Range: Recipes and Stories from An Unlikely Life on a Farm and Home Is Where the Eggs Are: Farmhouse Food for the People You Love by Molly Yeh

• 2023 Cookbooks for the Year

• RecipeTin Eats Dinner: 150 Recipes for Fast, Everyday Meals by Nagi Maehashi
• One Tin Bakes: Sweet and Simple Traybakes, Pies, Bars and Buns by Edd Kimber

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GET COOKING COOKBOOK CLUB

• Please check GCCC’s Instagram as difficult for me to determine what is being covered. It appears that they are covering multiple titles, plus adding another cookbook club to the mix.
• 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. The Salt + Spine Cookbook Club is now on a seasonal schedule – they will feature one author each season and cook along with them in a Virtual Dinner Party.

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Kitchen Arts & Letters – 92nd Street Y

May 2nd – June 13th, 2023 – Exploring Flavor: For more information and to register visit here.

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Lambs’ Ears Cookbook Club

This club is a Facebook online group focusing on books popular in Australia. Started by the blogger behind Lambs’ Ears & Honey.

• May 2023: The Italian Home Cook: The 100 recipes you need to know by Silvia Colloca
• 2023 Year Long Option: Any recipe from Delicious.com.au 

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Jamie Oliver’s Cookbook Club

• May 2023: Trullo: The Cookbook by Tim Siadatan

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Cook Republic Cooking Club

• May 2023: From Salt to Jam: Make Kitchen Magic with Sauces, Seasonings and More Flavour Sensations by Katrina Meynink

2023 Year Long Book: Rick Stein’s India: In Search of the Perfect Curry: Recipes from My Indian Odyssey by Rick Stein.

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Club Masala

To find out more information, please see this post.

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#MILKSTREETCOOKALONG

Every Tuesday, EYB Member, Lisa has a Milk Street Kitchen cookalong on her Cook Like I Mean It Instagram. Any MSK recipe is fair game just tag your posts #milkstreetcookalong. For more information see this reel.

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FORGOTTEN RECIPES COOKBOOK CLUB

From Hardcover Cook: “Claudia Prieto-Piastro is a Mexican food anthropologist living in London. Her cookbook club focuses on recovering recipes, books, authors and cuisines that have been forgotten by social media because they do not have pictures or enough marketing. Every month there is a “theme” rather than one book.”

To participate:

Post to Instagram using hashtag #forgottenrecipescookbookclub and also tag moderator, @piastromexicankitchen.

Skordo Cookbook Club

Skordo (Greek for garlic) is a family owned business with two shops, one in Portland and another in Freeport, Maine. I am a frequent buyer of their spices and products. Their items are packed with care and once you tear into a box you are enveloped by a world of aromas and culinary possibilities.

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The Sunday Times Cookbook Club

Each month this group will feature a cookbook and invite members to cook along with readers and members of The Dish team to try new recipes, learn new skills and be in with a chance of winning some great prizes along the way. In this group, you’re encouraged to share your photos, tips and recipe tweaks. Journalists from The Sunday Times, authors and experts will be taking part from time to time, and your comments and photos could be featured in our publications.

April 2023: Bread Month and Leon: Big Salads by Rebecca Seal.

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Stained Page News Cookbook Club – for more information visit here.

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Updated: other clubs I’ve located:

• The San Diego Cookbook Club – local club that meets.
• Adelaide Cookbook Club (local club that meets)
• Berlin Cookbook Club (meet up)
• Magnolia Table Cookbook Club
• 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