May 2024 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.

I will update as clubs make their May choices. You will note a few clubs below haven’t been updated – I keep checking on those but nothing new.

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Eat Your Books Cookbook Club – May

We have now added filter tags for all books we have covered in the EYB Cookbook Club.

Cooking/Online: Milk Street 365: The All-Purpose Cookbook for Every Day of the Year by Christopher Kimball or any Milk Street title or online recipe.
Baking: Any Bake from Scratch recipe or online recipe
Veg Focused: Any vegetarian or vegan recipe from any cookbook or online source.

2024 year long options are:

• Cooking: More Is More: Get Loose in the Kitchen or Cook This Book: Techniques That Teach and Recipes to Repeat by Molly Baz
• Online: Molly Baz online recipes; Nik Sharma online recipes; and Helen Goh online recipes / Ottolenghi online baking recipes
• Veg Focused: Veg-table: Recipes, Techniques, and Plant Science for Big-Flavored, Vegetable-Centered Meals by Nik Sharma
• Baking: Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh

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#ckbkclub

Our friends at ckbk have a Facebook #ckbkclub where posts are shared about favorite recipes, cookbook authors and more. ckbk is a cookbook subscription site where you can access the full content of more than 800 great cookbooks, the majority of which are indexed on EYB. Join the group by using this link: #ckbkclub.

April 2024: Lamingtons & Lemon Tart: Best-Ever Cakes, Desserts and Treats from a Modern Sweets Maestro by Darren Purchese

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Great British Chefs

May 2024: Seasoning: How to Cook and Celebrate the Seasons by Angela Clutton

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The Cookbook Club – Blasta Books, Hosted in Camerino Bakery at the Irish Museum of Modern Art

April 29th – WOK by Kwanghi Chan

Tickets will be available soon – please join their mailing list at the bottom of this page for more information.

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Rainyday Bites – Deborah Balint – Instagram’s first cookbook club – remember to tag your photos: @rainydaybites and use the group hashtag #rainydaybitescookbookclub 

May 2024: First Generation: Recipes from My Taiwanese-American Home by Frankie Gaw
June 2024: The Global Pantry Cookbook: Transform Your Everyday Cooking with Tahini, Gochujang, Miso, and Other Irresistible Ingredients by Scott Mowbray and Ann Taylor Pittman
May & June Baking: Chicano Bakes: Recipes for Mexican Pan Dulce, Tamales, and My Favorite Desserts by Esteban Castillo

July 2024: The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey by Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt
August 2024: Islas: A Celebration of Tropical Cooking – 125 Recipes from the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Ocean Islands by Von Diaz
May & June Baking: Sugarcane: Sweet Recipes from My Filipino American Kitchen by Arlyn Osborne

End of the month baking party recipes:

• May 31:  New Zealand/Australia: Pavlova
• June 30: Italy: Gelato, Sorbet or Granita 
• July 31:  Greece/Turkey: Baklava 
• August 31: Portugal: Pasteis de Nata (custard cream tarts)

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Saveur Cookbook Club

• May 2024: The SalviSoul Cookbook: Salvadoran Recipes and the Women Who Preserve Them by Karla T. Vasquez

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Kitchen Arts & Letters – 92nd Street Y

Spring 2024 Session (click here)

• April 9th and 30th: The Zuni Cafe Cookbook by Judy Rodgers
• May 14th and 28th: Arabesque by Claudia Roden
• June 11th and 25th: The Last Course by Claudia Fleming

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Food52 Baking Club

We have now added filter tags for all books covered in the Food52 Baking Club.

• May 2024: The German Baking Book: Cakes, Tarts, Breads, and More from the Black Forest and Beyond by Jürgen Krauss
• June 2024: Snacking Bakes: Simple Recipes for Cookies, Bars, Brownies, Cakes, and More by Yossy Arefi

• Bonus Book 2024 – all year: The Pie and Pastry Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum

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Food52 Cookbook Club

We have now added filter tags for all books covered in the Food52 Cookbook Club.

• May 2024: Cool Beans: The Ultimate Guide to Cooking with the World’s Most Versatile Plant-Based Protein, with 125 Recipes by Joe Yonan or Masa: Techniques, Recipes, and Reflections on a Timeless Staple by Jorge Gaviria
• June 2024: Night + Market: Delicious Thai Food to Facilitate Drinking and Fun-Having Amongst Friends by Kris Yenbamroong

• Bonus Book 2024: Tenderheart: A Book About Vegetables and Unbreakable Family Bonds by Hetty Lui McKinnon.

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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 2024: Easy Wins: 12 Flavour Hits, 125 Delicious Recipes, 365 Days of Good Eating by Anna Jones 
• 2024 Year Long Option: The Food Saver’s A-Z: The Essential Cornersmith Kitchen Companion by Alex Elliott-Howery and Jaimee Edwards

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Jamie Oliver’s Cookbook Club

• May 2024: Norteña: Authentic Family Recipes from Northern Mexico by Karla Zazueta

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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.

• June 2nd – Brunch in London with Therese Nichols, the editor/founder of One Plate, Karan Gokani from Hoppers and Phil Khoury from Harrods.
• July 7th – Mark Diacono and Angela Hartnett interviewed by Tim Hayward
• July 28th – Rachel Roddy

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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

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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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Now Serving LA Cookbook Club

Now Serving is offering a curated selection of four cookbooks shipped per year (one every four months). You pick the category, they pick the books and ship them to you!

Choose from (one category only): International, General Cooking, Plant, Based, Baking and Food Writing (receives 5 books per year).

Subscriptions begin with the next title after sign up. All orders placed after the first week of the ship months (March, May, August, October) will receive their first book the following quarter. Shipping via complimentary media mail. Currently available in the United States only. They are unable to accommodate returns or substitutions for the Cookbook Club.

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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”.

April, May and June 2024:

• Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook by Sohla El-Waylly
• Salad Freak: Recipes to Feed a Healthy Obsession by Jess Damuck
• Tiffy Cooks: 88 Easy Asian Recipes from My Family to Yours by Tiffy Chen

2024 Yearlong cookbooks

• More Is More: Get Loose in the Kitchen by Molly Baz
• Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi & Helen Goh
• Tenderheart: A Book About Vegetables and Unbreakable Family Bonds by Hetty Lui McKinnon

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Cookbook Divas

Winter 2023: 2023 revised edition of Roast Figs, Sugar Snow: Food to Warm the Soul by Diana Henry – nothing posted since November 2023.

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Cook Republic Cooking Club

March 2024: What Can I Bring?: Easy, Delicious Food for Sharing by Sophie Hansen

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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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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