August 2025 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary
July 8, 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 August 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 – August
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
- August: Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from my Palestine by Sami Tamimi
- September 2025: Sabzi: Fresh Vegetarian Recipes for Every Day by Yasmin Khan
- October 2025: In for Dinner: 101 Delicious & Affordable Recipes to Batch Cook, Share and Enjoy by Rosie Kellett
- November 2025: Persiana Easy by Sabrina Ghayour and Linger: Salads, Sweets and Stories to Savour, Together by Hetty Lui McKinnon
- December 2025: Milk Street Shorts – Recipes That Pack a Punch by Christopher Kimball and Baking and the Meaning of Life: Ways to Spread Joy in 100 Recipes by Helen Goh. Please post any of your Christmas baking as well.
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.
- August 2025: Throwback month
- 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
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.
August 2025: Tiny Budget Cooking: Saving Money Never Tasted So Good by Limahl Asmall
- August 2025: Sugar & Spice: Flavour-packed Dinners and Desserts to Crave by Remi Idowu
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:
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.
- August 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.
- August 2025: Slow Cooking – Wholefood Recipes: Every Recipe for Slow Cooker and Oven or Stove by Olivia Andrews
- September 2025: Boustany: A Celebration of Vegetables from my Palestine by Sami Tamimi
- 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 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
- Aug 13 – Made Here: Recipes & Reflections From NYC’s Asian Communities by Send Chinatown Love (Cookbook Club)
Big Night, Brooklyn NY – details
Read It and Eat, Buffalo NY – details
- To be determined
Anchovy Book Co. – St. Louis MO – details
- Aug 28 – Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
Binding Agents, Philadelphia PA – details
We have applied a filter to all books covered in the Binding Agents club here.
- Aug 24 – The Four Horsemen: Food and Wine for Good Times from the Brooklyn Restaurant by Nick Curtola
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
- Aug 28 – Cookbook club and community potluck Pasta Grannies: The Secrets of Italy’s Best Home Cooks by Vicky Bennison (Central Square) details
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
- Aug 17 – Bake club – Galette!: Sweet and Savory Recipes As Easy As Pie by Rebecca Firkser
- Aug 21 – Cookbook club – Vegetable Genius: 200 Clever Recipes to Hero your Veggies! by Anna Berrill
Cook+Book Club – Chapter One Book Store, Hamilton Montana – details
- Aug 13 – Pizza from the Heart: 100 Recipes for Pies, Pasta, Salads, and More by Paulie and Mary Ann Giannone @Bauder Home
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!
- Aug 23: Potluck Desserts: Joyful Recipes to Share with Pride by Justin Burke – details
Porgy’s Seafood Shop, New Orleans LA details
Lady Monger’s Dinner Series
A series hosted every Tuesday evening at the shop.
Vivienne Kitchen & Pantry – Portland OR details
- Aug 16 – Vegan JapanEasy: Classic and Modern Japanese Recipes to Cook at Home – Tim Anderson – Workshop
- Aug 23 – Pasta Grannies: The Secrets of Italy’s Best Home Cooks – Workshop
The Book Kitchen – Mineral Point WI – details
- 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
- Aug 7 – Salad of the Day (Revised) (Williams-Sonoma): 365 Recipes for Every Day of the Year by Georgeanne Brennan
- Sep 4 – to be determined
- Oct 2 – to be determined
CANADA
Appetite for Books – Westmount, Montreal
- 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
- Aug 7 – Earth to Table Every Day: Cooking with Good Ingredients Through the Seasons by Jeff Crump and Bettina Schormann @Terryberry Branch
- Aug 22 – Matty Matheson – Soups, Salads, Sandwiches by Matty Matheson @Binbrook Branch
- Aug 28 – Baking Day with Anna Olson: Recipes to Bake Together by Anna Olson @Waterdown Branch
Vanderhoof Public Library
230 Stewart St E, Vanderhoof, BC, Canada – details
- Sep 25 – to be determined
- Oct 25 – to be determined
UNITED KINGDOM
Honey & Co. Supper Club – Cookbook Club
See our Calendar for more details
- Sep 11 – Ben Lippett – How I Cook – (Honey & Smoke) – details
- Sep 12 – Ixta Belfrage – FUSÃO – Untraditional Recipes Inspired by Brasil (Honey & Co. Daily) – details
- Sep 20 – Helen Goh – Baking and the Meaning of Life: Ways to Spread Joy in 100 Recipes (Honey & Co. Daily) – details
Past talks can be found on their podcast
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.
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.
- Aug 2025: Good Cooking Every Day: Simple Recipes. Beautiful Menus. All Year Round. by Julia Busuttil Nishimura
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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