June 2025 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary
May 19, 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 June 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.
ONLINE
Eat Your Books Cookbook Club – June
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
June: Dinner – 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes for the Most Important Meal of the Day by Meera Sodha or any of Meera’s books. There are over 500 online recipes available for this author.
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.
- June Cooking 2025: Sunlight and Breadcrumbs: Making Food with Creativity and Curiosity by Renee Erickson and Sara Dickerman
- June Baking 2025: A Whisper of Cardamom: 80 Sweetly Spiced Recipes to Fall In Love With by Eleanor Ford
- Bonus Book 2025: Veg Forward: Super Delicious Recipes that Put Veggies at the Center of the Plate by Susan Spungen
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.
- June 2025: Life’s Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom: Really Good Food Without the Fuss by Prue Leith
- June 2025: Any Great British Chefs cookbook
RAINYDAY BITES
Rainyday Bites – Deborah Balint – Instagram’s first cookbook club – remember to tag your photos: @rainydaybites and use the group hashtag #rainydaybitescookbookclub
- June: You Got This!: Recipes Anyone Can Make and Everyone Will Love by Dianne Morrissey – new monthly theme: Freezer-friendly dishes or desserts to help stock your freezer from any cookbook or the featured titles.
- July & August: Milk Street: Cook What You Have: Make a Meal Out of Almost Anything by Christopher Kimball – new monthly theme: Making the most of your pantry from any cookbook or the featured titles.
- May–August Baking Book: 100 Afternoon Sweets: With Snacking Cakes, Brownies, Blondies, and More by Sarah Kieffer
#greatgrainsclub Deborah has started an off-shoot group –
- Bake a loaf of sourdough bread, from any cookbook, and post on one of the first two Sundays of the month or anytime during the first two weeks of the month.
- Bake the global bread recipe challenge using any cookbook of your choice. Post on one of the last two Sundays of each month or anytime during the last two weeks of the month.
- Tag @rainydaybites in the photo itself and in the caption. Please note which cookbook or source you used and tag that author as well. Use the #greatgrainsgroup hashtag in your caption.
The 2025 monthly recipe challenges:
June: SD + chocolate – Turkey: Simit
July: SD + cheese – India: Naan
August: SD + summer designs – Poland: Bialy or Bagels
September: SD + cinnamon/brown sugar – Japan: Milk bread
October: SD + pumpkin – Italy: Focaccia
November: SD + fall leaves – Germany: Rye bread (your choice)
December: SD + holiday or winter theme – Israel: Challah
Kitchen Arts & Letters – 92nd Street Y
The club meets online from 7:00-8:30 pm, Eastern Time. Dates below.
Spring Season 2025 – Asian Heritage
- June 10 and 24: Chinese Enough: Homestyle Recipes for Noodles, Dumplings, Stir-Fries, and More by Kristina Cho
- July 8 and 22: Pasta: The Spirit and Craft of Italy’s Greatest Food, with Recipes
- August 5 and 19: The Land Where Lemons Grow by Helena Attlee. A reading-only selection.
- September 16 and 30: Choose between Simply Tomato: 100 Recipes for Enjoying Your Favorite Ingredient All Year Long or Pesto: The Modern Mother Sauce: More Than 90 Inventive Recipes That Start with Homemade Pestos – or dive into both.
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.
- June 2025: Some of My Best Friends are Cookies: Recipes for Baking Perfection by Emelia Jackson and The Baker’s Book: Favourite Recipes, Kitchen Wisdom, Shared by Bakers You Love by Ruby Goss
- July 2025: All things citrus from any cookbook
- 2025 Book for the Year: Ottolenghi Comfort by Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh, Tara Wigley and Verena Lochmuller
Jamie Oliver’s Cookbook Club
- June-August 2025: The Rangoon Sisters: Recipes from Our Burmese Family Kitchen by Amy and Emily Chung
Please note that Jake Cohen has started a cookbook club, you can find more information here.
Quanto Basta Italian Cookbook Club
- July-August 2025: Mastering Pasta: The Art and Practice of Handmade Pasta, Gnocchi, and Risotto by Marc Vetri
Saveur Cookbook Club
Nothing reported for May or June – no activity.
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.
The Cookbook Club
The Kitchn Cookbook Club made an announcement that it did not have the bandwidth to continue running the club and has given it over to the members and renamed it “The Cookbook Club”.
Nothing chosen as of yet for May or June.
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 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.
Lazy Sunday Club New Zealand – details
Online club.
UNITED STATES
Archestratus Books + Food, Brooklyn NY details
Anchovy Book Co. – St. Louis MO – details
- Jun 25 – Korean American: Food that Tastes Like Home by Eric Kim
Binding Agents, Philadelphia PA – details
- Jun 23 (Jun 30 raindate) – The Book of Pintxos: Discover the Legendary Small Bites of Basque Country by Marti Buckley and/or Stuzzichini: The Art of the Italian Snack by Stef Ferrari
Cambridge Culinary – details
- Loads of cooking classes not related to cookbooks
Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge MA
- Jun 26: Did You Eat Yet?: Craveable Recipes from an All-American Asian Chef by Ronnie Woo – Lewis Room, Central Square Branch
- Jul 2: Ripe Figs: Recipes and Stories from Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus by Yasmin Khan – Collins Branch 64 Aberdeen Ave
Wayland Public Library, Wayland MA
- Jun 26: Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi – Raytheon Room
- July and August: No cookbook club – vacation
- Sep 18: Cookbook club returns – Raytheon Room
Bold Fork Books – Washington, D.C details
- Jun 19 – Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations by Nicole A. Taylor
Cook+Book Club – Chapter One Book Store, Hamilton Montana – details
- Jun 11 – at Bauder Home – Peckish: Suggestions for the Sophisticated Snacker by Suzanne Lenzer
Vivienne Kitchen & Pantry – Portland OR details
- Jun 7 – Mastering the Art of French Cooking – workshop
- Jun 21 – Vegan JapanEasy – workshop
The Book Kitchen – Mineral Point WI – details
- Jun 21 – Lunch and learn – Salad Freak: Recipes to Feed a Healthy Obsession
- Jul 11 – Lunch and learn – The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook
- Jul 27 – Cookbook club – Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
There are other classes and events not involving authors.
Pendleton Public Library, Pendleton OR – Monthly on the 1st Thurs, 6 – 7pm
- Jun 5: Nigellissima: Easy Italian-Inspired Recipes by Nigella Lawson
- Jul 3: To be determined
- Aug 7: To be determined
CANADA
Appetite for Books – Westmount, Montreal
- Jun 4 – Colombiana by Mariana Velásquez
- Jun 17 – Adriatico by Paola Bacchia
- Jun 18 – Two Chefs in the Garden by Lynn Crawford
(Other classes are sold out with waiting list available – see details)
Hamilton Public Library – details
- Jun 5 – Terryberry Branch – Falastin: A Cookbook by Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley
- Jun 12 – Turner Park Branch – The Pasta Queen – A Just Gorgeous Cookbook: 100+ Recipes and Stories by Nadia Caterina Munno
- Jun 14 – Waterdown Branch – cookbook swap
- Jun 26 – Waterdown Branch – Heydays at The June Motel: Beach Town Classics by Katie and Fred Laliberte and Evan and Emma Baulch
- Jun 26 – Ancaster Branch – Nourish: Simple Recipes to Empower Your Body and Feed Your Soul by Gisele Bündchen
Vanderhoof Public Library
230 Stewart St E, Vanderhoof, BC, Canada – details
- Jun 19 – awaiting information
- July 17 – awaiting information
- Aug 21 – awaiting information
UNITED KINGDOM
Honey & Co. Supper Club – Cookbook Club
- Jun 18: Strong Roots: A Ukrainian Family Story through War, Exile and Hope – Olia Hercules
- Jun 30: The Greek Islands Cookbook: Simple sun-kissed Recipes by Carolina Doriti – 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.
- Jun 29: Olia Hercules – Strong Roots: A Ukrainian Family Story through War, Exile and Hope
The Kitchen Table, Dorset UK – Event details
- Jun 19 – Big Cookbook Club
- Aug 6, 7pm – Cooking the Books – bimonthly cookbook club – bring a dish, talk about food, make new friends
- Oct 3, 7pm – Cooking the Books
- Dec 3, 7pm – Cooking the Books
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.
- June 2025: Bayrut: The Cookbook: Recipes from the Heart of a Lebanese City Kitchen by Hisham Assaad
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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