What we’re about
Cookbook Club—we all make recipes from the same book and gather to share the results, a crowdsourced feast.
Inspiration: An article on Serious Eats , takes the potluck to another level by letting us share in a common experience (one cookbook) while creating different dishes.
Schedule: We have at least 1 core event per month. Sometimes a 2nd date for the same book is added, and sometimes a "bonus event". Bonus events might be a cookbook or an entire cuisine. Got other questions? Check out our FAQ. want to host an event - sent a note to one of the organizers.
Cookbook Club Community: People in big cities can feel isolated. Cookbook Club was created to bring people together month after month. Nothing could be better than a group of people breaking bread & swapping stories around the table.
A welcoming space: All are encouraged to participate. The more the merrier! Thank you to everyone for making a special effort to make sure that newcomers feel welcome.
Easy is better than perfect: Cookbook Club is a space to explore new techniques, new dishes, new chefs. That means we’ll make some mistakes along the way, and that’s OK. The goal is to have fun and to try new things, even if a dish or two is a flop. Cookbook club should feel easy and fun. No one needs another chore to manage.
Diversity makes us better: Different ages & backgrounds, etc. We all share a love of food. We are free to be different in every other way. We try fancy cookbooks and simple cookbooks, vegan dishes, and whole hog. We even occasionally try beach BBQs and brewery-hosted events.
Hosts come first: Cookbook club doesn’t exist without space to host it. What the hosts want, the hosts get. We depend entirely on volunteers to open their space up to strangers. It’s a tall order! In LA, we have the extra constraint of smaller spaces, making it even trickier. We want them to be comfortable. This means respecting their limitations, making it easy for them to host, and protecting their privacy, to name a few.
