Are cookery books proper books?
November 2020
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The Cookery Book Book Club was started in January 2019 by myself and a fellow supper club host Sarah who was inspired after reading a wonderful article describing the perfect pairing of food and community.
The Cookery Book Book Club was started in January 2019 by myself and a fellow supper club host Sarah who was inspired after reading a wonderful article describing the perfect pairing of food and community.
We thought it would be a great way of meeting new people whilst at the same time sharing food, stretching our cooking repertoire, enriching our lives as well as our store cupboards and so the first planning meeting brought together eight strangers all armed with a copy of their favourite cook book and our journey began. I don’t think any of us could have predicted the friendships, depth of appreciation and joy that these once-a-month evenings gave us all.
We thought it would be a great way of meeting new people whilst at the same time sharing food, stretching our cooking repertoire, enriching our lives as well as our store cupboards and so the first planning meeting brought together eight strangers all armed with a copy of their favourite cook book and our journey began. I don’t think any of us could have predicted the friendships, depth of appreciation and joy that these once-a-month evenings gave us all.
Cookery books inspire and take your taste buds on a journey; they allow you to travel the globe from the comfort of your own kitchen. My holiday destinations are carefully crafted around the food, the produce and the local markets that I plan to explore. I recently cooked a bowl of pho that with the first sip took me back to a hidden street stall I stumbled across in Vietnam.
Cookery books inspire and take your taste buds on a journey; they allow you to travel the globe from the comfort of your own kitchen. My holiday destinations are carefully crafted around the food, the produce and the local markets that I plan to explore. I recently cooked a bowl of pho that with the first sip took me back to a hidden street stall I stumbled across in Vietnam.
Book clubs bring new authors, new continents, new ingredients; they are all the best bits of ordinary book clubs with the chatter, the discussion on the book, the planning of what to read next with the added bonus of eating great food, even if the participant hasn’t read the book, they turn up with a dish of food grabbed hurriedly from the list of recipes which usually turns out to be the star of the show.
Book clubs bring new authors, new continents, new ingredients; they are all the best bits of ordinary book clubs with the chatter, the discussion on the book, the planning of what to read next with the added bonus of eating great food, even if the participant hasn’t read the book, they turn up with a dish of food grabbed hurriedly from the list of recipes which usually turns out to be the star of the show.
Even disasters (and there have been a few) have made us laugh, cry and are remembered. There is no need to worry about skill levels as you pick a recipe that fits in with how much time you have, your budget and ingredient availability.
Even disasters (and there have been a few) have made us laugh, cry and are remembered. There is no need to worry about skill levels as you pick a recipe that fits in with how much time you have, your budget and ingredient availability.
Does a cookery book count as a real book? Hell yes! These days recipes are peppered with intimate portraits, there is beauty in the photography and humour in the back stories. The best cookbooks are so much more than recipe collections, these books are oral histories, documentaries, time capsules, love letters, geopolitical accounts and travel guides.
Does a cookery book count as a real book? Hell yes! These days recipes are peppered with intimate portraits, there is beauty in the photography and humour in the back stories. The best cookbooks are so much more than recipe collections, these books are oral histories, documentaries, time capsules, love letters, geopolitical accounts and travel guides.
November 2020
November 2020
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