December 2025 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary
November 18, 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 additional 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.
NOTE: We have added the Montreal Cookbook Club under the Canada section and Gourmet Traveller Cooking the Books – Instagram club.
ONLINE COOKBOOK CLUBS
Eat Your Books Cookbook Club – December
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
- 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.
- January 2026 – Catchup up month – continue cooking and baking from your favorite titles.
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.
- December 2025: Good Things – Recipes and Rituals to Share with the People You Love by Samin Nosrat and King Arthur Baking Company: The Essential Cookie Companion by King Arthur Baking
- 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 1,000 great cookbooks, the majority of which are indexed on EYB. Join the group by using this link: #ckbkclub.
December 2025: Elizabeth David’s Christmas by Elizabeth David featuring this collection of recipes.
- December 2025: The German Christmas Cookbook: Traditional Cakes, Biscuits, Breads and More for a Festive Celebration by Jürgen Krauss
RAINYDAY BITES
Rainyday Bites – Deborah Balint – Instagram’s first cookbook club – remember to tag your photos: @rainydaybites and use the group hashtag #rainydaybitescookbookclub
For the last quarter, the #rainydaybitescookbookclub will continue to focus on the #budgetbakesandbites theme. Use any cookbook you own, and make any budget friendly (minimal items, inexpensive ingredients, pantry/freezer friendly) sweet and/or savory recipe. The new main posting date, will be the second to last day of every month as set out below.
Feel free to post throughout the month as well, but, the second to last day will be the main posting date. Use both hashtags, #rainydaybitescookbookclub #budgetbakesandbites and tag @rainydaybites, in your photo.
The last day of the month will be the monthly #bakewithrainydaybites baking party. Use any cookbook you own and make a dessert that fits the monthly theme. Use #bakewithrainydaybites and tag @rainydaybites in your photo. The monthly theme and dates are as follows:
- December 31st: Winter Spices
The bread baking club continues with baking sourdough and global bakes through the end of the year. Use any cookbook you own, note your source, use #greatgrainsgroup hashtag, and tag @rainydaybites in your photo. Post at your convenience throughout the month. The sourdough + theme for inclusions or designs are optional, so feel free to do the theme, or, bake any recipe that uses a sourdough starter. The monthly themes are as follows:
December: SD + holiday or winter theme – Israel: Challah
The Cookbook Club (previously Kitchn’s Cookbook Club)
November/December 2025: The Complete Autumn and Winter Cookbook: 550+ Recipes for Warming Dinners, Holiday Roasts, Seasonal Desserts, Breads, Food Gifts, and More by America’s Test Kitchen
Kitchen Arts & Letters – 92nd Street Y
The club meets online from 7:00-8:30 pm, Eastern Time. Dates below.
- December 9 and 23: Cozy, slow-cooked meals from Molly Stevens’s All About Braising
- January 13 and 27: Sabzi: Fresh Vegetarian Recipes for Every Day by Yasmin Khan
- February 10 and 24: Far Afield: Rare Food Encounters from Around the World by Shane Mitchell
- March 10 and 24: In the Kusina: My Seasonal Filipino Cooking by Woldy Reyes
- April 14 and 28: Dorie’s Anytime Cakes by Dorie Greenspan
- May 12 and 26: My Mexico: A Culinary Odyssey with More than 300 Recipes by Diana Kennedy
- June 9 and 23: The Taste of Country Cooking by Edna Lewis
Gourmet Traveller Cooking the Books
Post on Instagram and tag @gourmettraveller
- December 2025: Baking and the Meaning of Life: Ways to Spread Joy in 100 Recipes by Helen Goh
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.
- December 2025: Australian Fish and Seafood Cookbook: The Ultimate Kitchen Companion by John Susman, Anthony Huckstep, Sarah Swan and Stephen Hodges
- January 2026: Salata: Mediterranean Salads for all Occasions by Michael Rantissi and Kristy Frawley
- 2025 Book for the Year: Ottolenghi Comfort by Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh, Tara Wigley and Verena Lochmuller
Jamie Oliver’s Cookbook Club
- September – December 2025: Cooking with Vegetables by Jesse Jenkins
Please note that Jake Cohen has started a cookbook club, you can find more information here.
Quanto Basta Italian Cookbook Club
- November – December 2025: Cucina Povera: The Italian Way of Transforming Humble Ingredients into Unforgettable Meals by Giulia Scarpaleggia
- January – February 2026: Six Seasons of Pasta: A New Way with Everyone’s Favorite Food by Joshua McFadden and Martha Holmberg
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
- Dec 4: Cookbook Club: Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora: Recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia by Polina Chesnakova
Big Night, Brooklyn NY – details
Read It and Eat, Buffalo NY – details
Anchovy Book Co. – St. Louis MO – details
Binding Agents, Philadelphia PA – details
We have applied a filter to all books covered in the Binding Agents club here.
- Dec 4: Holiday Wine Guide | A Workshop & Tasting by Santé, with Snacks by Habibi Supper Club
Cambridge Culinary – details
Many other cooking classes not related to cookbooks
Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge MA
- Dec 22 – Teen Winter Cookie Decorating (Valente)
Wayland Public Library, Wayland MA
- Dec 18 – New England Desserts: Classic and Creative Recipes for All Seasons by Tammy Donroe Inman
Bold Fork Books – Washington, D.C details
Cook+Book Club – Chapter One Book Store, Hamilton Montana – details
- Dec 10, 6pm – Cookie+ Book Exchange at Chapter One Book Store
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!
See events for holiday bazaars and more.
Porgy’s Seafood Shop, New Orleans LA details
Vivienne Kitchen & Pantry – Portland OR details
- Dec 5 – Great Cookie Swap with Sarah Fennel
Bake it Whole – Silverlake, California
Meets the 3rd Sunday of each month – Roxana Jullapat and Nan
Registration form.
Vesper Books & Wine Detroit MI
The Book Kitchen – Mineral Point WI – details
- Jan 11 – Moosewood Cookbook Cookbook Dinner
There are other classes and events not involving authors.
Pendleton Public Library, Pendleton OR – Monthly on the 1st Thurs, 6 – 7pm
- Dec 11: The Official Disney Parks Celebration Cookbook: 101 Festival Recipes from the Delicious Disney Vault by Pam Brandon – register here
- Jan 8: Easy Soups from Scratch with Quick Breads to Match: 70 Recipes to Pair and Share by Ivy Manning
- Feb 5: Tea and Cookies: Enjoy the Perfect Cup of Tea – With Dozens of Delectable Recipes for Teatime Treats by Rick Rodgers
The Seattle Baking Club
- Dec 14: The Panadery, 1158 Broadway, Capitol Hill – Dorie’s Anytime Cakes – Dorie Greenspan – Tickets here
CANADA
MONTREAL COOKBOOK CLUB
Appetite for Books – Westmount, Montreal
- Jan 13: Good Things – Recipes and Rituals to Share with the People You Love by Samin Nosrat
- Jan 15: Breaking the Rules: A Fresh Take on Italian Classics by Joe Sasto
- Jan 19: Sabzi: Fresh Vegetarian Recipes for Every Day by Yasmin Khan
- Jan 20: Lanna: Recipes from Northern Thailand & Beyond by Chariya Khattiyot
- Jan 21: French at Heart: Recipes That Bring France Home by Marjorie Taylor, Kendall Smith Franchini and Jess Thomson
- Jan 26: A Kitchen in Italy: A Year of Family Meals and Celebrations from Our Home by Mimi Thorisson
- Jan 27: Syria / Our Syria: Recipes from Home by Itab Azzam and Dina Mousawi
- Jan 29: Anna Cooks: 125+ Delicious & Achievable Recipes for Every Meal of the Day by Anna Olson
(Other classes are sold out with waiting list available – see details)
Hamilton Public Library – details
- Dec 18 – The Special Occasions Cookbook by Canadian Living – Red Hill Branch
- Jan 8 – Together: Memorable Meals, Made Easy by Jamie Oliver – Terryberry Branch
- Jan 15 – Farm, Fire & Feast: Recipes from the Inn at Bay Fortune by Michael Smith – Binbrook Branch
- Jan 15 – The Kitchen Without Borders by Eat Offbeat Chefs – Red Hill Branch
- Jan 29 – Soup Meals: Soups to Feed Body, Soul & Friends by Emily Ezekiel – Waterdown Branch
- Jan 29 – The Smart Mediterranean Diet Cookbook by Serena Ball – Ancaster Branch
Vanderhoof Public Library
230 Stewart St E, Vanderhoof, BC, Canada – details
- Jan 26 – to be determined
- Feb 26 – to be determined
UNITED KINGDOM
Honey & Co. Supper Club – Cookbook Club
- Dec 14 – Hanukkah Supper Club – details
See our Calendar for more details
The Cookbook Club – Blasta Books, Hosted in Camerino Bakery at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
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.
- December 14: The Christmas Companion: Recipes, Crafts and Inspiration for a Magical Festive Season – Skye McAlpine – book here
- January 25: – FUSÃO – Untraditional Recipes Inspired by Brasil – Ixta Belfrage – book here
- February 22: Baking & the Meaning of Life: How to Find Joy in 100 Recipe – Helen Goh – book here
- March 29: The Spanish Pantry: 12 Ingredients, 100 Simple Recipes – José Pizarro – book here
The Kitchen Table, Dorset UK – Event details
- Dec 3, 7pm – Cooking the Books – Christmas nibbles
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.
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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