Krupp Vicki Levy - The book club cookbook: recipes and food for thought from your book clubs favorite books and authors

THE BOOK CLUB

C O O K B O O K

J EREMY P. T ARCHER /P ENGUIN

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New York

THE BOOK CLUB

COOKBOOK

Recipes and Food for Thought
from Your Book Clubs
Favorite Books and Authors

Judy Gelman and

Vicki Levy Krupp

JEREMY P. TARCHER/PENGUIN
Published by the Penguin Group
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Copyright 2004, 2012 by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gelman, Judy, date.
The book club cookbook : recipes and food for thought from your book clubs favorite books and authors / Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp. Second edition.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-101-56056-3
1. Literary cookbooks. 2. Book clubs (Discussion groups). 3. Cookbooks.
I. Krupp, Vicki Levy, date. II. Title.
TX714.G446 2012 2011048793
641.5dc23

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BOOK DESIGN BY AMANDA DEWEY

The recipes contained in this book are to be followed exactly as written. The publisher is not responsible for your specific health or allergy needs that may require medical supervision. The publisher is not responsible for any adverse reactions to the recipes contained in this book.

While the authors have made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers and Internet addresses at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the authors assume any responsibility for errors, or for changes that occur after publication. Further, the publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.

ALWAYS LEARNING

PEARSON

For my mother, Doris Gelman,

who inspired my love of literature.

And in memory of my father, George Gelman,

who savored good food and good books.

J.G.

...............

In memory of my mother, Barbara Montag Levy,

whose kitchen was always brimming with love.

V.L.K.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,

and some few to be chewed and digested.

FRANCIS BACON

S ince The Book Club Cookbook was first published in 2004, weve been fortunate to continue our dialogue with thousands of book discussion group members. Weve met our readers at hundreds of book events across the country, corresponded with them online, and met them on Facebook and over the phone. Our website, www.bookclubcookbook.com, has turned into a virtual community with more than 100,000 visitors each year. There you can find news and information about authors, books and other book clubs, peruse recommendations from book clubs, find new recipes to pair with your reading, and see what popular authors have to say about their new books.

With access to hundreds of book clubs at our fingertips, it was a cinch to solicit feedback for the new titles to add to the second edition of The Book Club Cookbook. Book clubs that gave us feedback almost a decade ago, such as the Bookwomen of Encinitas, California, and the Last Thursday Book Club of Albuquerque, New Mexico, were more than happy to help us with new suggestions from their past ten years of reading. And we identified new book groups who wanted to join this effort, such as the Dixie Divas of Birmingham, Alabama, and the Eight Amigas Book Club of Austin, Texas. For this new edition, we surveyed more than five hundred book clubs. The most oft mentioned reading favorites from this round of surveys included Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese, and The Help by Kathryn Stockett.

We also learned that many titles featured in the first edition, such as Harper Lees To Kill a Mockingbird and Betty Smiths A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, remain book club favorites, with many groups now reading them for the first time. Some titles that were just emerging when our book was first published, such as Khaled Hosseinis The Kite Runner and Jeffrey Eugenidess Middlesex, have since become book club classics, read far and wide year after year.

Readers tell us they especially enjoyed learning why authors chose to incorporate certain foods into their books, and reading about and preparing the recipes authors contributed to our first edition, such as Sue Monk Kidds honey cake paired with The Secret Life of Bees or Lalita Tademys peach cobbler paired with Cane River. Author recipes making their first appearance in The Book Club Cookbook include Emma Donoghues Jacks sixth-birthday cake with Room, Markus Zusaks vanilla kipferls (crescent cookies) with The Book Thief, and Annie Barrowss potato peel pie and non-occupied potato peel pie with The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, among many others. Readers fascination with author recipes has been so strong we recently launched a Featured Authors and Their Recipes page on www.bookclubcookbook.com.

Weve added several new sections to this edition. Whether your group is newly formed or a veteran group looking for ideas to spice up the book club experience, check out our Recipe for a Book Club. And for advice on pairing food and literature in creative ways, please browse our Creating Novel Noshes section.

Finally, many readers have suggested that photographs would add life to The Book Club Cookbook, and in this second edition youll find images that capture the variety and imagination of the foods featured in the book.

Some fans of The Book Club Cookbook may not know that we have written two other books in the years in between the first and this second edition: The Kids Book Club Book is a complete guide to creating and running reading groups for children and young adults, and Table of Contents