January 2026 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary
December 12, 2025 by JennyAs our members know, each month we offer several cooking options in our Eat Your Books Cookbook Club. There are other fun cookbook clubs around world and we’d like to highlight those for those members who might want to cook or bake something other than our choices.
I will update this post as clubs make their additional choices. Something that has been occurring this year – many clubs are extending the time they work on a book and more – in an attempt (I believe) to lessen the administrators work load and perhaps to get more participation.
I have now sorted clubs geographically and am including bookstores that have cookbook clubs. If you have updates or information about any cookbook clubs, please message me jenny at eatyourbooks dot com with those details.
NOTE: We have added the Montreal Cookbook Club under the Canada section and Gourmet Traveller Cooking the Books – Instagram club.
ONLINE COOKBOOK CLUBS
Eat Your Books Cookbook Club – January
We have now added filter tags for all books we have covered in the EYB Cookbook Club.
We will continue to: post any recipe with source from your favorite books, magazines, blogs or online sites – just be sure to include recipe name and source when posting in the group and will feature a new book each month
- January 2026 – Catchup up month – continue cooking and baking from your favorite titles.
- February 2026: Good Things – Recipes and Rituals to Share with the People You Love by Samin Nosrat
- March 2026: Something from Nothing by Alison Roman
Cookbooks of Interest Cookbook Club
A new cookbook club started by Linsey Sowa who took care of the Food 52 Clubs. We have added filters for the cookbooks covered in this group.
- January 2026: Six Seasons of Pasta: A New Way with Everyone’s Favorite Food by Joshua McFadden and Baking & the Meaning of Life: How to Find Joy in 100 Recipes by Helen Goh
- February 2026: Throwback month
- Bonus Book 2026: Land of Fish and Rice: Recipes from the Culinary Heart of China by Fuchsia Dunlop
- Bonus Book 2026: Baking in the American South: 200 Recipes and Their Untold Stories (A Definitive Guide to Southern Baking) by Anne Byrn
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 1,000 great cookbooks, the majority of which are indexed on EYB. Join the group by using this link: #ckbkclub.
- January 2026: Anna’s Family Kitchen: Navigating Through Food, Faff and Family Life by Anna Stanford
- January 2026: Throwback month.
RAINYDAY BITES
Rainyday Bites – Deborah Balint – Instagram’s first cookbook club – remember to tag your photos: @rainydaybites and use the group hashtag #rainydaybitescookbookclub
January-April 2026: Something from Nothing by Alison Roman
#bakewithrainydaybites The end of the month baking party will feature challenges from Baking & the Meaning of Life: How to Find Joy in 100 Recipes by Helen Goh. This is a year long selection.
#greatgrainsgroup Our bread club will be featuring Big Book of Bread: 125 Recipes for Every Baker all year long.
The bread baking club continues with baking sourdough and global bakes through the end of the year. Use any cookbook you own, note your source, use #greatgrainsgroup hashtag, and tag @rainydaybites in your photo. Post at your convenience throughout the month. The sourdough + theme for inclusions or designs are optional, so feel free to do the theme, or, bake any recipe that uses a sourdough starter. The monthly themes are as follows:
December: SD + holiday or winter theme – Israel: Challah
The Cookbook Club (previously Kitchn’s Cookbook Club)
- January 2026: Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day by Leanne Brown
KAL COOKS
The club meets online from 7:00-8:30 pm, Eastern Time. Dates below. We have added a filter for the cookbooks featured in this club here.
- January 13 and 27: Sabzi: Fresh Vegetarian Recipes for Every Day by Yasmin Khan
- February 10 and 24: Far Afield: Rare Food Encounters from Around the World by Shane Mitchell
- March 10 and 24: In the Kusina: My Seasonal Filipino Cooking by Woldy Reyes
- April 14 and 28: Dorie’s Anytime Cakes by Dorie Greenspan
- May 12 and 26: My Mexico: A Culinary Odyssey with More than 300 Recipes by Diana Kennedy
- June 9 and 23: The Taste of Country Cooking by Edna Lewis
Gourmet Traveller Cooking the Books
Post on Instagram and tag @gourmettraveller
- January 2026: Good Things – Recipes and Rituals to Share with the People You Love by Samin Nosrat (details)
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. We are adding filter tags for the books covered in this group.
- January 2026: Salata: Mediterranean Salads for all Occasions by Michael Rantissi and Kristy Frawley
- 2026 Book for the Year: The Kitchen Diaries I: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater by Nigel Slater
Jamie Oliver’s Cookbook Club
- January – April 2026: Long Day? Cook This.: Easy East Asian Recipes with a Twist by Justin Tsang
Please note that Jake Cohen has started a cookbook club, you can find more information here.
Quanto Basta Italian Cookbook Club
- January – February 2026: Six Seasons of Pasta: A New Way with Everyone’s Favorite Food by Joshua McFadden and Martha Holmberg
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!
BAKE & TELL
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. Dorie also has launched a Bake & Tell free group. To subscribe to Dorie’s newsletter click here.
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.
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.
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.
The Cookbook Club UK
Formerly, The Sunday Times Cookbook Club. They are primarily a social and supportive group where all members are encouraged to post whatever their ability. The group succeeds through members interacting.
Lazy Sunday Club New Zealand – details
Online club.
IN PERSON – COOKBOOK CLUBS
UNITED STATES
Archestratus Books + Food, Brooklyn NY details
- Jan 28: Linger – Salads, Sweets, and Stories to Savor by Hetty Lui McKinnon
Big Night, Brooklyn NY – details
Read It and Eat, Buffalo NY – details
Anchovy Book Co. – St. Louis MO – details
- Jan 29: Salt Sugar MSG: Recipes and Stories from a Cantonese American Home by Calvin Eng
Binding Agents, Philadelphia PA – details
We have applied a filter to all books covered in the Binding Agents club here.
- Jan 23: Cookbook Club: Linger – Salads, Sweets, and Stories to Savor by Hetty Lui McKinnon
Cambridge Culinary – details
Many other cooking classes not related to cookbooks
Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge MA
- Jan 22 – More Is More: Get Loose in the Kitchen – Molly Baz (Central Square)
Wayland Public Library, Wayland MA
- Jan 15 – Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s by B. Dylan Hollis
- Feb 19 – The Woks of Life: Recipes to Know and Love from a Chinese American Family by Bill, Kaitlin, Judy, and Sarah Leung
- Mar 19 – Good Lookin’ Cookin’: A Year of Meals – A Lifetime of Family, Friends, and Food by Dolly Parton and Rachel Parton George
- Apr 16 – Home Is Where the Eggs Are by Molly Yeh
- May 21 – Made in India by Meera Sodha
- Jun 18 – Salad Freak: Recipes to Feed a Healthy Obsession by Jess Damuck
Bold Fork Books – Washington, D.C details
- Jan 11 – Bake Club – Red Truck Bakery Cookbook – Brian Noyes
- Jan 28 – Cookbook Club – Home Food: Recipes to Comfort and Connect – Olia Hercules
Cook+Book Club – Chapter One Book Store, Hamilton Montana – details
Audrey’s Cookbooks – Minneapolis Minnesota – details
Audrey’s Cookbooks is a culinary pop-up shop slinging a curated selection of new & vintage cookbooks around the Twin Cities, and hosting Cookbook Clubs for food lovers. We want to get the perfect cookbook into your hands and give you a space to connect & learn!
See events for holiday bazaars and more.
Porgy’s Seafood Shop, New Orleans LA details
Vivienne Kitchen & Pantry – Portland OR details
- Jan 10 – Book Workshop: Mi Cocina: Recipes and Rapture from My Kitchen in Mexico – Rick Martinez
- Jan 24 – Book Workshop: Vegan JapanEasy – Tim Anderson
Bake it Whole – Silverlake, California
Meets the 3rd Sunday of each month – Roxana Jullapat and Nan
Registration form.
- Jan 18, 3pm: The Bread Baker’s Apprentice by Peter Reinhart at Friends & Family Silverlake Outpost, (2388 Glendale Blvd.)
Vesper Books & Wine Detroit MI
The Book Kitchen – Mineral Point WI – details
- Jan 11 – Moosewood Cookbook Cookbook Dinner
There are other classes and events not involving authors.
Pendleton Public Library, Pendleton OR – Monthly on the 1st Thurs, 6 – 7pm
- Jan 8: Easy Soups from Scratch with Quick Breads to Match: 70 Recipes to Pair and Share by Ivy Manning
- Feb 5: Tea and Cookies: Enjoy the Perfect Cup of Tea – With Dozens of Delectable Recipes for Teatime Treats by Rick Rodgers
The Seattle Baking Club
I have added a filter for all books covered by the Seattle Baking Club.
Feb 7, 2026:
- Patisserie Made Simple / French Bakes Made Simple: From Macaron to Millefeuille and More by Edd Kimber
- Chocolat – Parisian Desserts and Other Delights by Aleksandra Crapanzano
- The French Bastards: Modern Patisserie Classics from Paris’s Cult Bakery by The French Bastards
CANADA
MONTREAL COOKBOOK CLUB
Appetite for Books – Westmount, Montreal
- Jan 13: Good Things – Recipes and Rituals to Share with the People You Love by Samin Nosrat
- Jan 15: Breaking the Rules: A Fresh Take on Italian Classics by Joe Sasto
- Jan 19: Sabzi: Fresh Vegetarian Recipes for Every Day by Yasmin Khan
- Jan 20: Lanna: Recipes from Northern Thailand & Beyond by Chariya Khattiyot
- Jan 21: French at Heart: Recipes That Bring France Home by Marjorie Taylor, Kendall Smith Franchini and Jess Thomson
- Jan 26: A Kitchen in Italy: A Year of Family Meals and Celebrations from Our Home by Mimi Thorisson
- Jan 27: Syria / Our Syria: Recipes from Home by Itab Azzam and Dina Mousawi
- Jan 29: Anna Cooks: 125+ Delicious & Achievable Recipes for Every Meal of the Day by Anna Olson
(Other classes are sold out with waiting list available – see details)
Hamilton Public Library – details
- Jan 8 – Together: Memorable Meals, Made Easy by Jamie Oliver – Terryberry Branch
- Jan 15 – Farm, Fire & Feast: Recipes from the Inn at Bay Fortune by Michael Smith – Binbrook Branch
- Jan 15 – The Kitchen Without Borders by Eat Offbeat Chefs – Red Hill Branch
- Jan 29 – Soup Meals: Soups to Feed Body, Soul & Friends by Emily Ezekiel – Waterdown Branch
- Jan 29 – The Smart Mediterranean Diet Cookbook by Serena Ball – Ancaster Branch
Vanderhoof Public Library
230 Stewart St E, Vanderhoof, BC, Canada – details
- Jan 26 – to be determined
- Feb 26 – to be determined
UNITED KINGDOM
Honey & Co. Supper Club – Cookbook Club
- See our Calendar for more details
The Cookbook Club – Blasta Books, Hosted in Camerino Bakery at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
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.
- January 25: – FUSÃO – Untraditional Recipes Inspired by Brasil – Ixta Belfrage – book here
- February 22: Baking & the Meaning of Life: How to Find Joy in 100 Recipe – Helen Goh – book here
- March 29: The Spanish Pantry: 12 Ingredients, 100 Simple Recipes – José Pizarro – book here
The Kitchen Table, Dorset UK – Event details
AUSTRALIA
Cookbook Club Sydney – details
Adelaide Cookbook Club – Facebook details * website
Meets in person on the first Wednesday of each month in a hired kitchen in Adelaide that accommodates our 21 Cookbook Club members. Members have a month to review the cookbook we have selected together, choose a recipe each and then meet to cook and taste those 21 dishes.
NEW ZEALAND
Searching for any local clubs. Please message me at my email listed at the top if you learn of any that meet in New Zealand.
Cookbook Club NZ
Follow the Instagram page above for details – awaiting a response from the administrators.
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