February 2025 Cookbook Divas Book Club Pick Announcing our Cookbook Divas Book Club pick for February 2025: “Cold Kitchen,” by Caroline Eden (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024/2025 in the US). Shop for “Cold Kitchen” on Amazon (affiliate link). We’ll hear about Caroline Eden’s former year of travels as she cooks in her cozy Edinburgh kitchen. The chapters are arranged seasonally, beginning with ...
November 2024 Cookbook Divas Book Club Pick Our book club pick for November 2024 is “Be Ready When the Luck Happens,” by Ina Garten (via Amazon; affiliate link) This is the long-awaited memoir from “The Barefoot Contessa,” a prodigious cookbook author, charming television host and fabulous party hostess. Her new book covers her difficult childhood, meeting and marrying Jeffrey, working ...
How to Create Your Own Cookbook Club Cookbook clubs are a great way to form community, make lasting friendships, try out new cooking techniques, and sample new flavors you might not have tried on your own. What exactly is a cookbook club? It’s a group of people who gather together to cook through a chosen cookbook together. Usually, but not ...
March 2024 Cookbook Divas Book Club Pick Join us in March 2024 as the Cookbook Divas Book Club reads “Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame,” (via Amazon; affiliate link) by Olivia Ford. Jenny has been married for 59 years, and her husband’s health is declining. Her friends’ lives are focused on their grandchildren, and Jenny doesn’t have any grandkids of her ...
Our book club pick for February 2024 is “Good Taste,” by Caroline Scott (via Amazon; affiliate link) This book is set in Depression-era England, in 1932 between the wars. Stella Douglas is asked to help write a food history of England, to lift spirits. “So, Stella sets about unearthing recipes from all corners of the country, in the hope of ...
Join us in April 2024 as the Cookbook Divas Book Club reads “The Kamogawa Food Detectives,” by Hisashi Kashiwai (via Amazon; affiliate link). This book was a bestseller in Japan, and has now been translated into English. It sounds really charming. What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto ...
Our Cookbook Divas Book Club pick for November 2023 is “A Winter in New York,” by Josie Silver (via Amazon; affiliate link). “A young chef stumbles on a secret family gelato recipe that might lead her to the love—and life—she’s been looking for.” We just started reading the first seven chapters today. I’ve laughed out loud a few times already ...
Have you joined our book club yet? Our Cookbook Divas Book Club pick for November 2023 is “A Winter in New York,” by Josie Silver (via Amazon; affiliate link). “A young chef stumbles on a secret family gelato recipe that might lead her to the love—and life—she’s been looking for.” This book looks cute. It’s a romance, yes, but features ...
Join us in February 2023 as the Cookbook Divas Book Club reads “Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen” by Annabel Abbs (via Amazon; affiliate link). This is a novel set in the Victorian era (it begins in 1835) the follows the life of Eliza Acton, the first modern cookbook writer. As we read this novel, we’ll also take some time out to ...
We thought it would be fun to read some cooking-related fiction (especially historical fiction) once in a while, so we’ve created the Cookbook Divas Book Club! We hope you will join us in April, 2021 to read our first Book Club Pick, “The Kitchen Front: A Novel” by Jennifer Ryan (via Amazon; affiliate link). “Two years into World War II, ...