Come for the food, stay for the culture, personal stories and creativity that cookbooks offer.
About Food Book Club is a culinary book club for cookbook enthusiasts who get together once a month to engage in an in depth conversation about a particular book. Join to learn new recipes, improve your culinary skills and share it all with like-minded people.
In order for this to be a fun as well as an enriching experience please come with an open mind since we will select books from all types of cuisines and from authors with diverse backgrounds. Also, during group meetings conversation may shift from food to other topics, so please always share your thoughts in a respectful way.
Meetings are held online once a month and have a cost of $25 (unless otherwise specified). For some books we will have the pleasure to have the author joining the meeting. Please sign up at the beginning of the month to be included in the WhatsApp group.
Clubs
MARCH CLUB
Pasta: The Spirit and Craft of Italy’s Greatest Food, with Recipes
By Missy Robbins and Talia Baiocchi
If you always wanted to become a pasta master, this is your opportunity! Join the Club this month while we read Pasta: The Spirit and Craft of Italy’s Greatest Food, with Recipes, a book full of illustrated step-by-step recipes for handmaking forty of the most versatile pasta shapes and pasta dishes plus other italian recipes. Consider this book a staple that you will use over and over again for years to come.
Missy Robbins is the James Beard Award-winning chef/owner of acclaimed Lilia and Misi restaurants in NYC and Talia Baiocchi is a food and drink writer and the founder and editor in chief of PUNCH.
3 PASTA TOOLS FROM RENOWNED FANTE’S KITCHEN SHOP INCLUDED
Club meeting date & time: 3/30 at 7pm. (virtually) -$25
APRIL CLUB
Vegetables Unleashed: A Cookbook
By José Andrés and Matt Goulding
We can’t think of a better way to celebrate Spring and all the bountiful produce at the farmers market than with José André’s take on vegetables. The book is written by talented food writer Matt Goulding who shares stories of José Andrés himself as well as their adventures while creating this book.
Join the club this month to cook delicious but easy to make vegetable recipes from the most celebrated Spanish chef in America.
Club meeting date & time: 4/27 at 7pm. (virtually)
MAY CLUB
My life in France
By Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme
Join the Club this month to read about the memoir of one of the most influential cooks in America, the beloved and inspiring Julia Child. In her book “My Life in France” she shares her life in Paris where she discovered French cuisine and dove into the French culture that sparked her interest for the culinary world and became the foundation for her to later become a master chef and an admired Tv personality.
Club meeting date & time: 5/25 at 7pm. (virtually)
JUNE CLUB
An Unapologetic Cookbook
By Joshua Weissman
Have you ever wondered how to make your own ketchup or hot sauce? Or how to make your own pickles? What about peanut butter and jams? Join the Club this month to learn how to make the basics from scratch which the author assures us we will find more delicious than what sits on the supermarket shelves. This is a perfect book for summer when most of us enjoy outdoor cooking and entertaining. Spoil your guests with your homemade sauces and condiments, maybe even bread! The book has a good amount of recipes that are perfect for entertaining as well as recipes that are great to pack and take to the beach.
Club meeting date & time: 6/22 at 7pm. (virtually)
Next Clubs will be announced in summer and will resume in September
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