Cook Book Group

Convenors: Sandra Wiebe

Members of the Cookbook Group share a few commonalities: we love cookbooks; we compulsively buy cookbooks because of the glossy photos; and we mark recipes from the books but haven’t quite found the time to test them out. We have 15 or so members in total, with 6-10 of us typically making it to each dinner. We meet for dinner once every 6-8 weeks, and the host gets to pick the cookbook or theme. Then we each pick recipes we would like to try; a delicious menu emerges (we’re all okay if three desserts show up), and we bring our dishes to share potluck style. Our group is ambitious with new recipes and new ingredients, and demonstrates innovation and skillful mastery of each dish they present to the group--or if something doesn’t quite work out at least it makes a good story!

We hope to resume meeting in person, in our homes. If you’d like to join, please email Sandra (sandra.wiebe@gmail.com) and she will add you to our mailing list.

Here are just a few Cookbook Club meeting themes from the last few years:

●  “Vij’s at Home” cookbook

●  Deb Perelman’s “Smitten Kitchen” blog

●  Lemons

●  Jessica Battilana’s “Repertoire” cookbook

●  Samin Nosrat’s “Salt Fat Acid Heat” cookbook/documentary series

●  Pies/tarts (savoury and sweet)

●  Yottam Ottolenghi's cookbooks

Meetings: About once per month