Book Club Cookbook Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club's Favorite Books and Authors

This first cookbook created specifically for book clubs shows readers how to add a delightfully delicious angle to their book club gatherings. Featuring recipes and food-related discussion ideas for one hundred popular book club selections, The Book Club Cookbookguides readers in selecting and preparing culinary masterpieces that tie in just right with the literary masterpieces their club is reading. From "Honey Cakes" to go along with The Secret Life of Beesby Sue Monk Kidd to "Eggplant Caponata" to go with Bel Canto by Ann Patchett; from "Lemony Goat Cheese Tart" with Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel to "Shrimp Flautas" for Empire Fallsby Richard Russo; The Book Club Cookbookmakes adding foods that stem from the books your club reads fun and easy. Vicki Levy Krupp and Judy Gelman polled hundreds of book clubs all over the country to determine what their members are reading and to discover the creative ways that they're integrating food into their meetings. With recipes and colorful background information on the role that food plays in the reading choices-much of which was contributed by the authors of the book club selections themselves- The Book Club Cookbookwill add some real flavor to your book club meetings.Gelman, Judy is the author of 'Book Club Cookbook Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club's Favorite Books and Authors', published 2004 under ISBN 9781585423224 and ISBN 158542322X.