April 2026 Great Big Cookbook Club Summary
March 12, 2026 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.
I added Book Larder’s book club (US Seattle) and The Neighborhood’s Jewish Cookbook Social Clubs – (US Brooklyn). Please note that Archestratus in Brooklyn is closing and their last cookbook club will be on Apr 15th.
ONLINE COOKBOOK CLUBS
Eat Your Books Cookbook Club – April
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
- April 2026: Don’t Think About Dinner: Save Time and Money with 125+ Easy, Nourishing, Delicious Recipes for Every Meal by Jenn Lueke (24 online recipes) or Nights and Weekends: Recipes to Carry You Through the Week by Alexis deBoschnek (6 online recipes)
- May 2026: The Diaspora Spice Co. Cookbook: Seasonal Home Cooking from South Asia’s Best Spice Farms by Sana Javeri Kadri and Asha Loupy or Obsessed with the Best: 100 Methodically Perfected Recipes Based on 20+ Head-to-Head Tests by Ella Quittner (three online recipes)
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.
- April 2026: Something from Nothing by Alison Roman (25 online recipes) and Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and Beyond by Laurel Kratochvila (6 online recipes)
- May 2026: Latinísimo: Home Recipes from the Twenty-One Countries of Latin America by Sandra A. Gutierrez (two online recipes) and Lebanese Baking: More Than 100 Recipes for Sweet and Savory Baked Goods by Maureen Abood (15 online recipes)
- Bonus Book 2026: Land of Fish and Rice: Recipes from the Culinary Heart of China by Fuchsia Dunlop
- Bonus Book 2026: Baking in the American South: 200 Recipes and Their Untold Stories (A Definitive Guide to Southern Baking) by Anne Byrn
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.
- April 2026: Babka, Boulou, & Blintzes: Jewish Chocolate Recipes from around the World and The Ultimate Cheesecake Cookbook: Recipes From Around The World by Michael Leventhal and Chocolate / I Want Chocolate by Trish Deseine
Global Cookbook Club – Discord
A place on Discord to discuss cookbooks.
April 2026:
- General: Dishoom: From Bombay with Love by Shamil & Kavi Thakrar, Naved Nasir
- Baking: Modern Asian Baking at Home by Kat Lieu!
April 2026: Better at Home: Recipes for Big Nights In – Colu Henry
Cook the World Book Club
Join the Cook the World Book Club, a collaboration between Gneiss Spice and Interlink Publishing. Your annual subscription will bring you great cookbooks from around the world, paired with high-quality organic spices every other month of the year.
Every other month you will receive:
- A new Interlink cookbook selected by Leyla Moushabeck, editorial director and cookbook editor.
- A spice or spice blend from Gneiss Spice, a sustainable Maine-based business.
- A custom bookmark to take notes as you explore.
- A letter from the editor with behind-the-scenes details about the book.
RAINYDAY BITES
Rainyday Bites – Deborah Balint – Instagram’s first cookbook club – remember to tag your photos: @rainydaybites and use the group hashtag #rainydaybitescookbookclub
January-April 2026: Something from Nothing by Alison Roman (20 online recipes)
#bakewithrainydaybites The end of the month baking party will feature challenges from Baking & the Meaning of Life: How to Find Joy in 100 Recipes by Helen Goh (3 online recipes). This is a year long selection.
#greatgrainsgroup Our bread club will be featuring Big Book of Bread: 125 Recipes for Every Baker all year long. (24 online recipes)
The Cookbook Club (previously Kitchn’s Cookbook Club)
- April 2026: Linger – Salads, Sweets, and Stories to Savor by Hetty Lui McKinnon
- May 2026: ArnieTex: Over 100 Recipes for Mexican-American Cooking and Texas-Style BBQ by Arnie Segovia
- Cookbook of the Year: Good Things – Recipes and Rituals to Share with the People You Love by Samin Nosrat
KAL COOKS
The club meets online from 7:00-8:30 pm, Eastern Time. Dates below. We have added a filter for the cookbooks featured in this club here.
- 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
- Can find no announcements for February or March and have inquired three times.
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.
- April 2026: Open month – cook from your favorite books
- 2026 Book for the Year: The Kitchen Diaries I: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater by Nigel Slater
Jamie Oliver’s Cookbook Club
- March – May 2026: Thai: Anywhere and Everywhere by Nat Thaipun – two online recipes
Please note that Jake Cohen has started a cookbook club, you can find more information here.
Quanto Basta Italian Cookbook Club
- March – April 2026: The Talisman of Happiness: The Most Iconic Italian Cookbook Ever Written by Ada Boni
- May – June 2026: Mother Sauce: Italian American Family Recipes and the Story of the Women Who Created Them by Lucinda Scala Quinn
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
- Apr 15 – The last cookbook club
Big Night, Brooklyn NY – details
Jewish Neighborhood Supper Club details
The Neighborhood’s delicious new book club with a culinary twist. Each month between April and June, the club will focus on one incredible Jewish cookbook to cook and learn from in our own home kitchens. Then, we will come together in Gertie’s magical Brooklyn backyard to nosh and celebrate— including schmoozing and conversation between our chefs and award-winning cookbook author Leah Koenig!
- Apr 20 – Second Generation – Jeremy Salamon – details
- May 18 – A Fistful of Lentils – Jennifer Felicia Abadi – details
Read It and Eat, Buffalo NY – details
Anchovy Book Co. – St. Louis MO – details
- Apr 21 – Hot Dish – Hello, Home Cooking: Do-Able Dishes for Every Day – Ham El-Waylly
Binding Agents, Philadelphia PA – details
We have applied a filter to all books covered in the Binding Agents club here.
- Apr 20 – Obsessed with the Best: 100 Methodically Perfected Recipes Based on 20+ Head-to-Head Tests by Ella Quittner and Will This Make You Happy: Stories & Recipes from a Year of Baking by Tanya Bush
Cambridge Culinary – details
Many other cooking classes not related to cookbooks
Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge MA
- Apr 23 – Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat – Lewis Room, Central Square Branch
Wayland Public Library, Wayland MA
- Apr 16 – Home Is Where the Eggs Are by Molly Yeh
- May 21 – Made in India by Meera Sodha
- Jun 18 – Salad Freak: Recipes to Feed a Healthy Obsession by Jess Damuck
Bold Fork Books – Washington, D.C details
- Apr 19 – Special April Bake Club: Will This Make You Happy: Stories & Recipes from a Year of Baking– Tanya Bush
- Apr 22 – Cookbook Club – From the Land of Nightingales and Roses: Recipes from the Persian Kitchen – Maryam Sinaiee
Cook+Book Club – Chapter One Book Store, Hamilton Montana – details
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!
Porgy’s Seafood Shop, New Orleans LA details
See their event calendar for workshops.
Vivienne Kitchen & Pantry – Portland OR details
- Apr 18 – Book Workshop: Plantas: Modern Vegan Recipes for Traditional Mexican Cooking – Alexa Soto
- May 2 – Book Workshop: Pocha: Simple Korean Food from the Streets of Seoul – Su Scott
- May 16 – Book Workshop: Sama Sama: Comfort Food from my Mixed Malaysian Kitchen – Julie Lin
- May 30 – Book Workshop: Cuisines of Odesa: A Ukrainian Cookbook – Maria Kalenska
Bake it Whole – Silverlake, California
Meets the 3rd Sunday of each month – Roxana Jullapat
Registration form.
- Apr 19, 3pm: Morning Baker: Recipes and Rituals for Breakfast and Beyond by Roxana Jullapat @📍At Friends & Family Silverlake Outpost (2388 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90039)
Vesper Books & Wine Detroit MI
The Book Kitchen – Mineral Point WI – details
- Apr 24, 4-6pm: Cookbook Swap
- See details above for classes and workshops.
There are other classes and events not involving authors.
Pendleton Public Library, Pendleton OR – Monthly on the 1st Thurs, 6 – 7pm
- May 7 – Sirocco: Fabulous Flavors from the Middle East by Sabrina Ghayour
Book Larder – Cookbook Club, Seattle WA – details
- May 30: Book Club On Eating: The Making and Unmaking of My Appetites by Alicia Kennedy
The Seattle Baking Club
I have added a filter for all books covered by the Seattle Baking Club.
- Apr 12: Morning Baker: Recipes and Rituals for Breakfast and Beyond by Roxana Jullapat @Stoup Brewery
CANADA
MONTREAL COOKBOOK CLUB
Appetite for Books – Westmount, Montreal
- Lots of sold out classes for a complete list – see details above
Hamilton Public Library – details
- Apr 16: Earth to Table Every Day: Cooking with Good Ingredients Through the Seasons – Jeff Crump @Red Hill Branch
- Apr 30: Dishes For Two: 125 Easy Small-Batch Recipes for Weeknight Meals & Special Celebrations by Good Housekeeping @Waterdown Branch – Waterdown – Program Room
Vanderhoof Public Library
230 Stewart St E, Vanderhoof, BC, Canada – details
- They do not announce which books are covered because they do not have more room for additional members.
UNITED KINGDOM
Honey & Co. Supper Club – Cookbook Club
- Apr 22 – Centrepiece: Bold, Vibrant Recipes to Put Vegetables in the Spotlight – Helen Graham – details
- Apr 27- Medesque: Everyday Recipes with Mediterranean Roots – Georgia Hayden – Supper Club – details
- May 14 – Honey & Co Daily: Easy Food for Your Everyday Pleasure – Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer – Supper club
- 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.
- Apr 26: The Racine Effect: Classic French Recipes from a Lifetime in the Kitchen – Henry Harris – book here
- May 31: Felicity Cloake – book here
- Jun 28: Honey & Co Daily: Easy Food for Your Everyday Pleasure – Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer – book here
The Kitchen Table, Dorset UK – Event details
- May 13 – Cooking the Books – Theme: Rice – Ping Coombes (guest)
AUSTRALIA
Cookbook Club Sydney – details
Adelaide Cookbook Club – Facebook details * website
April: Good Things – Recipes and Rituals to Share with the People You Love by Samin Nosrat
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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