July 2025 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary
June 17, 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 July 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 COOKBOOK CLUBS
Eat Your Books Cookbook Club – July
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
- July: Summer catchup – any book, magazine or blog recipe.
- August: Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from my Palestine by Sami Tamimi
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.
- July Cooking 2025: Mezcla: Recipes to Excite by Ixta Belfrage
- July Baking 2025: Patisserie Made Simple / French Bakes Made Simple: From Macaron to Millefeuille and More by Edd Kimber
- Bonus Book 2025: Veg Forward: Super Delicious Recipes that Put Veggies at the Center of the Plate by Susan Spungen
- Bonus Book 2025: Drink Your Garden: Recipes, Stories and Tips from the Simple Goodness Cocktail Farm by Belinda Kelly and Venise Cunningham
- August 2025: Throwback month
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.
- July 2025: Convivir: Modern Mexican Cuisine in California’s Wine Country by Rogelio Garcia and Andrea Lawson Gray
- July 2025: Flavour Heroes: 15 Modern Pantry Ingredients to Amplify Your Cooking by Gurdeep Loyal
RAINYDAY BITES
Rainyday Bites – Deborah Balint – Instagram’s first cookbook club – remember to tag your photos: @rainydaybites and use the group hashtag #rainydaybitescookbookclub
- 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:
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.
- 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.
- July 2025: All things citrus from any cookbook
- August 2025: Slow Cooking – Wholefood Recipes: Every Recipe for Slow Cooker and Oven or Stove by Olivia Andrews
- 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
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 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.
IN PERSON – COOKBOOK CLUBS
UNITED STATES
Archestratus Books + Food, Brooklyn NY details
- Jul 8 – Sunny Days, Taco Nights by Enrique Olvera and Alonso Ruvalcaba – Cookbook Club
Big Night, Brooklyn NY – details
Read It and Eat, Buffalo NY – details
- To be determined
Anchovy Book Co. – St. Louis MO – details
- Jul 24: By Heart: Recipes to Hold Near and Dear by Hailee Catalano
Binding Agents, Philadelphia PA – details
We have applied a filter to all books covered in the Binding Agents club here.
Cambridge Culinary – details
- Aug 25 – Cook the Book – The Wok – Recipes and Techniques by J. Kenji López-Alt
- Sep 17 – Cook the Book – The Wok – Recipes and Techniques by J. Kenji López-Alt
Many other cooking classes not related to cookbooks
Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge MA
- 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
- July and August: No cookbook club – vacation
- Sep 18: Cookbook club returns – Raytheon Room
Bold Fork Books – Washington, D.C details
- Jul 23 – The SalviSoul Cookbook: Salvadoran Recipes and the Women Who Preserve Them by Karla T. Vasquez
Cook+Book Club – Chapter One Book Store, Hamilton Montana – details
- Jul 9 – Salsa Daddy: Dip Your Way into Mexican Cooking – Rick Martinez
Porgy’s Seafood Shop, New Orleans LA details
Lady Monger’s Dinner Series
A series hosted every Tuesday evening at the shop.
- Jul 8 – Nini Nguyen
- Jul 15 – Rebecca Wilcomb – James Beard winner and chef
- Jul 22 – Camille Staub
- Jul 29 – Anh Luu
- Aug 5 – Amarys Koenig Herndon
Vivienne Kitchen & Pantry – Portland OR details
The Book Kitchen – Mineral Point WI – details
- Jul 7 – Pick up and dine – Indian Flavor Every Day: Simple Recipes and Smart Techniques to Inspire by Maya Kaimal
- Jul 11 – Lunch and learn – The Everyday Ayurveda Cookbook
- Jul 27 – Cookbook club – Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
- Aug 4 – Pick up and dine – Zaytinya: Delicious Mediterranean Dishes from Greece, Turkey, and Lebanon by José Andrész
- Sep 10 – Girls’ Night – Salad Freak: Recipes to Feed a Healthy Obsession by Jess Damuck
There are other classes and events not involving authors.
Pendleton Public Library, Pendleton OR – Monthly on the 1st Thurs, 6 – 7pm
- Jul 3: The Lost Kitchen: Recipes and a Good Life Found in Freedom, Maine by Erin French
- Aug 7: To be determined
CANADA
Appetite for Books – Westmount, Montreal
- Jul 3 – Tahini Baby by Eden Grinshpan
- Jul 8 – K-Quick: Korean Food in 30 Minutes or Less by Judy Joo
- Jul 10 – Sunny Days, Taco Nights by Enrique Olvera and Alonso Ruvalcaba
- Jul 16 – Lugma by Noor Murad
- Jul 17 – Kiin: Recipes and Stories from Northern Thailand by Nuit Regular
- Jul 22 – The Spanish Mediterranean Islands Cookbook by Jeff Koehler
- Jul 23 – Family Style by Peter Som
- Jul 29 – My Cypriot Table by Irene Matys
- Jul 30 – In the Kusina: My Seasonal Filipino Cooking by Woldy Reyes
- Aug 5 – By Heart: Recipes to Hold Near and Dear by Hailee Catalano
- Aug 6 – Boustany by Sami Tamimi
- Aug 12 – Viet Kieu by Thi Bich Phuong Le
- Aug 13 – For the Love of Lemons by Letitia Clark
- Aug 19 – Zareen’s Pakistani Kitchen by Zareen and Umair Khan
- Aug 20 – Salsa Daddy: Dip Your Way into Mexican Cooking by Rick Martinez
- Aug 26 – The Artful Way to Plant-Based Cooking by Chloé Crane-Leroux and Trudy Crane
(Other classes are sold out with waiting list available – see details)
Hamilton Public Library – details
- Jul 3: The Grill Sisters’ Guide to Legendary BBQ: 60 Irresistible Recipes that Guarantee Mouthwatering, Finger-Lickin’ Results by Desi Longinidis and Irene Sharp @Terryberry Branch – Terryberry – Program Room
- Jul 25: Cake & Loaf Gatherings: Sweet and Savoury Recipes to Celebrate Every Occasion by Nickey Miller and Josie Rudderham – @Binbrook Branch – Binbrook – Program Room
- Jul 31: Rock Recipes 2: More Great Food from My Newfoundland Kitchen by Barry C. Parsons @Waterdown Branch – Waterdown – Program Room
Vanderhoof Public Library
230 Stewart St E, Vanderhoof, BC, Canada – details
- July 17 – awaiting information
- Aug 21 – awaiting information
UNITED KINGDOM
Honey & Co. Supper Club – Cookbook Club
See our Calendar for more details
- Jun 30: The Greek Islands Cookbook: Simple sun-kissed Recipes by Carolina Doriti – details @Honey & Co. Daily
- Jul 14: Smoke and Seasoned Bread: Recipes from Turkeye by Hasan Semay @Honey & Smoke – details
- Jul 29: Winnie & Bridget’s book club Takeaway: Stories From a Childhood Behind the Counter by Angela Hui @Honey & Co Studio – details
- Jul 30: The Spanish Pantry: 12 Ingredients, 100 Simple Recipes by José Pizarro @Honey & Co. Daily – details
The Cookbook Club – Blasta Books, Hosted in Camerino Bakery at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
To be determined.
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
- 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.
- Jul 2025: Dinner – 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes for the Most Important Meal of the Day by Meera Sodha
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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