April 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 want to get this information out to you so you can prepare and we will update this post when we have any further information. Please note the addition of the Borough Market Digital Cookbook Club and the Scrumptious Reads in Australia Cookbook Club!

Eat Your Books April selections

• Main Option: Cook with Me: More Than 150 Recipes for the Home Cook by Alex Guarnaschelli
• Baking Option: The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook or any online King Arthur recipes.
• Online Option: Annabel Langbein online recipes
• Plant-Based Option: Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero

See this post for our 2021 year-long books and our options for April and May 2021.

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Great British Chefs

• April: The Italian Deli Cookbook: 100 Glorious Recipes Celebrating the Best of Italian Ingredients by Theo Randall
• May: One: Pot, Pan, Planet: A Greener Way to Cook for You, Your Family and the Planet by Anna Jones

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Borough Market Digital Cookbook Club

Find out more about this digital cookbook club here.

March’s selection is: Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes Through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland by Caroline Eden

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Scrumptious Reads – Brisbane, Australia 

May 21, 22 – The Cook’s Apprentice – Cook Book Club – details
June 18, 19 – How Wild Things Are – Cook Book Club – details
Aug 20, 21 –  Hetty McKinnon: To Asia, With Love – Cook Book Club – details
Sep 17, 18 – Parwana – Cook Book Club – details

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The Winter Selections which began shipping in March are:

Omnivore Box: Simply Julia: 110 Easy Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food by Julia Turshen
Vegetarian Box: Vegetable Kingdom: The Abundant World of Vegan Recipes by Bryant Terry
Baking Box: Zoë Bakes Cakes: Everything You Need to Know to Make Your Favorite Layers, Bundts, Loaves, and More by Zoë François

The Summer selections are shown in the photograph above and will be shipping in June and include a new category the Essentials Box that features cookbooks that provide everyday solutions for unfussy and delicious meals. Recipes will range from easy to medium difficulty. Paired products will help you upgrade your pantry staples with a range of artisanal products and may contain seafood or meat.:

• Omnivore Box: Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus by Yasmin Khan
• Essentials Box: Cook This Book: Techniques That Teach and Recipes to Repeat by Molly Baz
• Vegetarian: To Asia, With Love: Everyday Asian Recipes and Stories from the Heart by Hetty McKinnon
• Baking: Bread Toast Crumbs: Recipes for No-Knead Loaves & Meals to Savor Every Slice by Alexandra Stafford

Be sure to check out the site for all the great ingredients each of these boxes will share by clicking on the links above in bold you will be taken to the proper pages! See Hardcover Cook’s other cookbook and ingredient bundles and see this page for more information on the subscription service.

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

• April 2021 – Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen by Durkhanai, Farida, and with assistance from Fatima Ayubi
• April 2021 – Baking: The Book on Pie: Everything You Need to Know to Bake Perfect Pies by Erin Jeanne McDowell

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Tasting Table Cookbook Club 

• 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

April and May: Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook by Anya Von Bremzen and John Welchman

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Food52 Baking Club

• April: Dessert Person by Claire Saffitz (promotion: baking bundle)
• 2021 – all year: Patisserie at Home by Melanie Dupuis and Anne Cazor

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Food52 Cookbook Club

• April: Bestia: Italian Recipes Created in the Heart of L.A. by Ori Menashe, Genevieve Gergis and Lesley Suter (Bestia is on Kindle sale for 2.99)
• 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

• April: East: 120 Vegetarian and Vegan Recipes from Bangalore to Beijing by Meera Sodha
• May: Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen by Durkhanai, Farida, and with assistance from Fatima Ayubi

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GET COOKING COOKBOOK CLUB

• April: Best of 2020 – any previous book covered in 2020

**** Second Get Cooking Cookbook Club – French Cookbooks ****

• April: Dinner in French: My Recipes by Way of France by Melissa Clark
• May: The Little Paris Kitchen: Classic French Recipes with a Fresh and Simple Approach by Rachel Khoo

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.

• April: What’s Gaby Cooking: Eat What You Want: 125 Recipes for Real Life by Gaby Dalkin

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Kitchen Arts & Letters – 92nd Street Y

Come cook with us! Sign up here.

Tuesdays: April 13, and April 27 from 7-8:30 pm.

KAL wrote: Each week, prior to meeting online, everyone cooks the same recipes from one of our four featured cookbooks. You master some sensational new recipes and skills and have fun discussing it all, gaining inspiration, and sharing experiences with others who love cooking as much as you do.

The books for this session are:

• The New York Times Cooking: No-Recipe Recipes by Sam Sifton the debut cookbook based on NYT Cooking.
• Classic Indian Cooking — Julie Sahni’s seminal book on Indian cuisine
• Plat du Jour: French Dinners Made Easy — from award-winning journalist, French food expert and cooking school proprietor Susan Loomis
• The Taste of Country Cooking — the legendary Edna Lewis’ masterpiece of Southern cooking

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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.

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

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Great Jones Cookbook Club 

No announcement made for several months will continue to check.

Updated: other clubs I’ve located:

• 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.