Cookbook Club will be held at the Fowler Library the second Wednesday of each month. 

For more information, please email bgugluizza@concordma.gov. 

Thank you to everyone who came out the day after the big storm to celebrate St. Patrick's Day by eating delicious Irish food! 

Thank you to everyone who joined in the fun at December's Cookbook Club and made recipes from Blue Ginger and Simply Ming!

The next Cookbook Club will on January 10th, where we will make recipes from The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook, by America's Test Kitchen.

I hope you all enjoy the Holidays and I wish you a very Happy New Year!!

Thanksgiving Fun

Thanksgiving Fun

Thank you to everyone who attended and made Thanksgiving Dishes for the November Cookbook Club!

The food was delicious and we had a lot of fun! Here are a few pictures from the event......

The next Cookbook Club is on November 8th!


For November, we will be making Thanksgiving recipes. The cookbooks listed below will be available for checkout at both libraries:

• The new Thanksgiving table : an American celebration of family, friends, and food / by Diane Morgan ; photographs by Leigh Beisch
• The Thanksgiving table : recipes and ideas to create your own holiday tradition / by Diane Morgan ; photography by John A. Rizzo
• Thanksgiving 101 : celebrate America's favorite holiday with America's Thanksgiving expert / Rick Rodgers.

I hope to see you all on November 8th!

The Next Cookbook Club will be on October 11th

Thank you to everyone who participated in the September Cookbook Club, in which we made recipes from The Apple Lover's Cookbook, by Amy Traverso and Simple: Simple: Effortless Food, Big Flavors, by Diana Henry. It was a fun event and the dishes were delicious! 

Photo: Laura LeVan's scrumptious Pork and Apple Pie with Cheddar-Sage Crust
(Photo by Nancy Levy). 

The October Cookbook Club will take place on October 11th. We will be discussing two Italian Cookbooks: Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy and Lidia's Favorite Recipes, both by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich.

I hope to see you all on October 11th!

The Next Cookbook Club will be on September 13th

The next Cookbook Club will be on September 13th. We will make recipes from the cookbooks The Apple Lover's Cookbook, by Amy Traverso, and Simple: Effortless Food, Big Flavors, by Diana Henry.

  

I hope to see you all on September 13th!

The Next Cookbook Club will be on August 9

The next Cookbook Club will be on August 9th. We will make recipes from the cookbooks Simple Thai Food: Classic Recipes from the Thai Home Kitchen and Bangkok, by Leela Punyaratabandhu. 

  

I hope to see you all on August 9th!

The Next Cookbook Club will be on July 12

Thank you to everyone who made their favorite recipe for the June Cookbook Club. It was great to go around the room and hear why people chose their recipes. The food was delicious!

The next Cookbook Club will be on July 12th. We will make recipes from the cookbook The soul of a new cuisine : a discovery of the foods and flavors of Africa, by Marcus Samuelsson.

Registration will begin on Wednesday, June 28th. 

I hope to see you all in July!

The next Cookbook Club will be on June 14th!

Thank you to everyone who came to the May Cookbook Club to discuss Jerusalem, Plenty and Plenty More, by Yotam Ottolenghi. The food was delicious!

For the June Cookbook Club on June 14th, everyone will make their favorite recipe, in lieu of making recipes from the same cookbook. It promises to be a fun event!

The next Cookbook Club will be on March 8th!

Thank you to everyone who joined us to discuss Jacques Pepin's Heart and Soul in the Kitchen on February 8th. The food was delicious and the dicussion was great!

Next Up: One Big Table: A Portrait of American Cooking: 600 recipes from the nation's best home cooks, farmers, pit-masters and chefs, by Molly O'Neill.

Happy New Year! Thank you to everyone who joined us on January 11th to discuss My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories, by David Lebovitz. What a great discussion!

Next Up:

Heart and Soul in the Kitchen, by Jacques Pepin

Wednesday, February 8th at 12pm.

Registration will begin on January 25th.

The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook was a Big Hit!

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the December discussion of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook! The food was excellent and the event was a lot of fun! 

(Photo courtesy of Yvonne Medina)

The next cookbook club will meet on Wednesday, January 11th. We will discuss
My Paris Kitchen : Recipes and stories, by David Lebovitz,

Happy Holidays!!  

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the November meeting of the Cookbook Club to discuss Spice, by Ana Sortun. Nancy Alexanderson gave a wonderful presentation about herbs (Thank you, Nancy!), and we had a lively conversation about the recipes we made from the book. The food was incredible!

Next Up:

The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook, by Deb Perelman

Wednesday, December 14th at 12pm.

Registration will begin on November 30th.

The next Cookbook Club will be on November 9th.

Next Up:

Spice: Flavors of the Eastern Mediterranean, by Ana Sortun

We will discuss Spice: Flavors of the Eastern Mediteranean, by Ana Sortun, at our November 9th discussion. In addition, Nancy Alexanderson has generously agreed to give a presentation on cooking with herbs. 

Registration will begin on October 26th. 

We look forward to a great discussion and delicious food!

Coming in September

Registration is now open!

America: Farm to Table, by Mario Batali

 

We will discuss America: Farm to Table, by Mario Batali at our September 14th discussion. Registration is now open.

We look forward to a great discussion and delicious food!

Coming in August

Next Up:

Debra Stark's Cookbooks:

Kerry Cronin, our Director, will be facilitating the August 10th meeting and Debra Stark will be hosting! We look forward to sharing recipes and great discussions with our local celebrity, 

Debra Stark!

      

Thank you all for sharing your friendship, wonderful recipes, and camaraderie with me. I've gone to the Ipswich Library and hope if you're up there you will visit with me! 

~Nathalie

Flour, too a big hit!

Thanks to the 25 people who cooked and shared their recipes from Joanne Chang's Flour, too.  Emily Speagle gave the group a great biographical summary about Joanne and led a discussion on what went well and not so well.  We're looking forward to cooking from The Art of Mastering French Cooking by Julia Child at the May 10th meeting. See you then!

Enjoy these photos of many of the dishes yesterday. (Courtesy of our Children's Librarian, Fayth)

Salads upon salads!

Thank you to our Branch Librarian, Theresa, for taking this photo of the scrumptious salads we sampled today. All the salads were from Raising the Salad by local author, Cathy Walthers.  Cathy talked about how she got started in cooking, food writing, and teaching. It was great to hear how her husband and son test all of her recipes before they are published in her books!  Thank you, Cathy, for joining us!

Thank you to the 28 people who prepared the salads and shared them.   For a list of all the recipes samples today please visit this site (scroll to the bottom).

The next cookbook title is Make it Ahead by Ina Garten.  Copies of the this book will be available at the Main Library and Fowler Branch starting on Wednesday, February 24th. 

Registration to attend the Wed., March 9th meeting also begins on February 24th. Please register to attend on this site.

Stay warm and I'll see you all very soon!

We ate our veggies at the January meeting!

Twenty eight people attended yesterday's Cookbook Club!  So, we had 28 vegetarian recipes to try. They were all delicious. Thanks to everyone to cooked and shared.

Thanks to Cookbook Club member Beth Baryiames for sharing this photo of her new Labradoodle puppy, Elphaba.  She was helping Beth select a recipe!

For those of you who would like to make some of the other recipes you tried yesterday, check out this site.