December 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 current announcements.

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Eat Your Books Cookbook Club – December

• Cookbook: Milk Street Simple or Any Milk Street Kitchen cookbook or Roast Figs, Sugar Snow: Food to Warm the Soul by Diana Henry
• Online: Any Milk Street kitchen online recipe or any Diana Henry online recipe
• Baking: Any holiday baking – share a photo and where the recipe is from.
• Veg Option: Share your favorite vegan or vegetarian recipe – be sure to state where the recipe is from

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.

• Check Cafe Murano’s site for Supper Club dates and Book Club.

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Chetna Makan started a club on Facebook

Description: A place to cook, share and enjoy Chetna Makan’s recipes! Upload what you have been cooking, talk to other fans and have fun with your food!

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Scrumptious Reads Bookclub – Brisbane, Australia

• Dec 2 – Recipes for a Lifetime of Beautiful Cooking by Danielle Alvarez

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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

• December 2023: River Cottage Great Roasts by Gelf Alderson

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

• December 2023: Pierogi: Over 50 Recipes to Create Perfect Polish Dumplings and Polska: New Polish Cooking by Zuza Zak

• December baking: Knead Peace: Bake for Ukraine by Andrew Green

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

December 2023: The Cookie That Changed My Life: And More Than 100 Other Classic Cakes, Cookies, Muffins, and Pies That Will Change Yours: A Cookbook by Nancy Silverton and Carolynn Carreño

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Kitchen Arts & Letters – 92nd Street Y

New session begins October 10th – The club meets online from 7:00-8:30 pm, Eastern Time. Sign up here.

• December 5 and 19: Portico by Leah Koenig

Winter session: January 9 – March 19, 2023

January 9th and 23rd: Ever-Green Vietnamese by Andrea Nguyen
February 6th and 20th: The Food of Sichuan by Fuchsia Dunlop
March 5th and 19th: BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts by Stella Parks

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Food52 Baking Club

• December: Scandinavian from Scratch: A Love Letter to the Baking of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Nichole Accettola

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

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Food52 Cookbook Club

• December: Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, Recipes and Stories by Nigella Lawson
• December – Bonus: A Proper Drink: The Untold Story of How a Band of Bartenders Saved the Civilized Drinking World by Robert Simonson.

• 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”.

• November/December 2023: Magnolia Table: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering, Magnolia Table, Volume 2: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering, or Magnolia Table, Volume 3: A Collection of Recipes for Gathering by Joanna Gaines.

• 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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Cookbook Divas

Winter 2023: 2023 revised edition of Roast Figs, Sugar Snow: Food to Warm the Soul by Diana Henry

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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.

• December 2023: Donna Hay’s Christmas by Donna Hay
• 2023 Year Long Option: Any recipe from Delicious.com.au 

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Jamie Oliver’s Cookbook Club

• December 2023: These Delicious Things by Jane Hodson, Lucas Hollweg and Clerkenwell Boy

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Cook Republic Cooking Club

November 2023: Now & Then: A Collection of Recipes for Always by Tessa Kiros

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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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.

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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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.

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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