May 2026 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary

April 13, 2026 by
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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 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 the Bake the Books addition below in Savannah Georgia.

ONLINE COOKBOOK CLUBS

Eat Your Books Cookbook Club – May

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

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.

#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 1,000 great cookbooks, the majority of which are indexed on EYB. Join the group by using this link: #ckbkclub.

Global Cookbook Club – Discord
A place on Discord to discuss cookbooks.

May 2026:

Great British Chefs

May 2026: For the Love of Food: Recipes for Life’s Delicious Moments by Paul Ainsworth

Cook the World Book Club

Join the Cook the World Book Club, a collaboration between Gneiss Spice and Interlink Publishing. Your annual subscription will bring you great cookbooks from around the world, paired with high-quality organic spices every other month of the year.

Every other month you will receive:

  • A new Interlink cookbook selected by Leyla Moushabeck, editorial director and cookbook editor.
  • A spice or spice blend from Gneiss Spice, a sustainable Maine-based business.
  • A custom bookmark to take notes as you explore.
  • A letter from the editor with behind-the-scenes details about the book.

Find out more.

RAINYDAY BITES

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

May 2026: Mediterranea: Life-perfected Recipes from Grandmothers of the Med by Anastasia Miari

#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 (3 online recipes). 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.  (24 online recipes)

The Cookbook Club (previously Kitchn’s Cookbook Club)

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.

Spring Book Club 2026

Gourmet Traveller Cooking the Books

Post on Instagram and tag @gourmettraveller

  • Can find no announcements for February or March and have inquired three times.

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.

Jamie Oliver’s Cookbook Club

Please note that Jake Cohen has started a cookbook club, you can find more information here.

Quanto Basta Italian Cookbook Club

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

Big Night, Brooklyn NY – details
Jewish Neighborhood Supper Club details

The Neighborhood’s delicious new book club with a culinary twist. Each month between April and June, the club will focus on one incredible Jewish cookbook to cook and learn from in our own home kitchens. Then, we will come together in Gertie’s magical Brooklyn backyard to nosh and celebrate— including schmoozing and conversation between our chefs and award-winning cookbook author Leah Koenig!

Read It and Eat, Buffalo NY – details

Anchovy Book Co. – St. Louis MO – details

Binding Agents, Philadelphia PA – details

We have applied a filter to all books covered in the Binding Agents club here.

Cambridge Culinary – details

Many other cooking classes not related to cookbooks

Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge MA

Wayland Public Library, Wayland MA

Bold Fork Books – Washington, D.C  details

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!

Coastal Table and Tales, Savannah Georgia

May 17: Bake the Books – Galette!: Sweet and Savory Recipes As Easy As Pie by Rebecca Firkser with special guest – Cheryl Day – details

Porgy’s Seafood Shop, New Orleans LA details

See their event calendar for workshops.

Vivienne Kitchen & Pantry – Portland OR details 

Bake it Whole – Silverlake, California

Meets the 3rd Sunday of each month – Roxana Jullapat
Registration form.

Vesper Books & Wine Detroit MI

The Book Kitchen – Mineral Point WI – details

  • See details above for classes and workshops.

There are other classes and events not involving authors.

Pendleton Public Library, Pendleton OR – Monthly on the 1st Thurs, 6 – 7pm

Book Larder – Cookbook Club, Seattle WA – details

The Seattle Baking Club

May 24th, 2pm @fremontbrewing – All things berries!

I have added a filter for all books covered by the Seattle Baking Club.

CANADA

MONTREAL COOKBOOK CLUB

Appetite for Books – Westmount, Montreal 

  • Lots of sold out classes for a complete list – see details above

Hamilton Public Library – details

Vanderhoof Public Library
230 Stewart St E, Vanderhoof, BC, Canada – details

  • They do not announce which books are covered because they do not have more room for additional members.

UNITED KINGDOM

Honey & Co. Supper Club – Cookbook Club

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.

The Kitchen Table, Dorset UK – Event details

  • May 13 – Cooking the Books – Theme: Rice – Ping Coombes (guest)

AUSTRALIA

Cookbook Club Sydney – details

Waitlist information.

Adelaide Cookbook Club – Facebook details * website

April: Good Things – Recipes and Rituals to Share with the People You Love by Samin Nosrat

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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