How to start your own cookbook club — and why you'll want to
If you like the idea of joining a book club but would really rather not debate pacing and character development in the latest best-selling novel over overly garlicky spinach dip, there's another option: a cookbook club.
In a cookbook club, you still get to see friends, while gathering to commune over and discuss a book. But the food is better. And you don't have to read that 350-pager (that no one ever gets through). If you're doing it right, you are reading the book, but it's faster. And it's still a joy, if the author has a story to tell, like my group's first choice, the wonderful "Taste of Persia" by Naomi Duguid.
Participating in such a club also forces you to cook from the cookbooks you buy. How many have you bought and never gotten around to trying? See? And you get to have a dinner party at a table full to groaning, but you only made one dish (or two or more for the more ambitious). You'll try books you may not have considered picking up. Along with the title above, my group of six friends has cooked: "Ad Hoc
