October 2020 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.

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Eat Your Books October selections

• Main Selection:  Simple: Effortless Food, Big Flavours by Diana Henry
• Baking Selection: Happiness Is Baking: Favorite Desserts from the Queen of Cake by Maida Heatter
• Online Option:  Great British Chefs – Chef Recipes
• Plant-based Option: Start Simple: Eleven Everyday Ingredients for Countless Weeknight Meals by Lukas Volger or any other Volger title

For November, 2020 through January, 2021 selections see this post.

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Great British Chefs

October’s selection is Irini Tzortzoglou’s Under the Olive Tree.

See our promotions for Great British Chef’s Vegetables here as well as a promo for their first book here.

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Hardcover Cook is my favorite cookbook subscription box service.

The fall omnivore box features the one and only Ottolenghi and his new book Flavor and the vegetarian option is La Vida Verde. And the first baking box features 100 Cookies. See our giveaway post for more information about other great cookbook deals.

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Rainyday Bites – Deborah Balint – Instagram’s first cookbook club – October’s selection Night + Market: Delicious Thai Food to Facilitate Drinking and Fun-Having Amongst Friends by Kris Yenbamroong

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Tasting Table Cookbook Club 

• October 2020 – Big Book of Korean Cooking by Maangchi (or any of the Author’s books) and Quick and Delicious by Gordon Ramsay (or any of the Author’s recipes/books)
• November 2020 – Meals, Music, and Muses: Recipes from my African American Kitchen by Alexander Smalls and Flavor by Yotam Ottolenghi (or any of the Author’s books)
• December 2020 – Black Girl Baking by Jerrelle Guy and This Will Make it Taste Good by Vivian Howard

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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. They have started a Cookbook Club that meets via Zoom at the end of the month (September’s club is set for 9/30 and features Repertoire: All the Recipes You Need).

• October’s featured author is Sonoko Sakai and her book Japanese Home Cooking: Simple Meals, Authentic Flavors
• November’s featured author is Nik Sharma and his new book The Flavor Equation: The Science of Great Cooking Explained: More Than 100 Essential Recipes

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Saveur Cookbook Club

October and November’s selection was announced on October 8th. Falastin: A Cookbook by Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley.

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Food52 Baking Club

• October: 100 Cookies: The Baking Book for Every Kitchen, with Classic Cookies, Novel Treats, Brownies, Bars, and More by Sarah Kieffer
• November: Good Book of Southern Baking by Kelly Fields and Kate Heddings
• December: The Book on Pie: Everything You Need to Know to Bake Perfect Pies by Erin Jeanne McDowell

All year they are baking through one of my favorite’s Midwest Made: Big, Bold Baking from the Heartland

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Food52 Cookbook Club

• October: Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family by Priya Krishna
• November: In Bibi’s Kitchen: The Recipes and Stories of Grandmothers from the Eight African Countries that Touch the Indian Ocean by Hawa Hassan
• December: Open Kitchen: Inspired Food for Casual Gatherings by Susan Spungen
• January, 2021: Ottolenghi Flavour by Yotam Ottolenghi, Ixta Belfrage and Tara Wigley

• 2020 All year-long options: The Modern Cook’s Year and Cooking with Scraps.
• 2021 – Bonus Book: The Flavor Equation: The Science of Great Cooking Explained: More Than 100 Essential Recipes by Nik Sharma

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Great Jones Cookbook Club 

October’s selection hasn’t been announced. We will update.

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Kitchn’s Cookbook Club

October’s selection is: The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen by Sean Sherman and Beth Dooley

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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.
• Drew Barrymore has a casual cookbook club on Instagram live. Drew has covered The Flavor Bible and now is featuring Living Lively