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The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook - Deb Perelman
The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook – Deb Perelman
August 1, 2016 Alana

Sunday, July 24 – 6:00pm

Our next cookbook was recommended by Colin, who is fast becoming a star member of the cookbook club (perhaps we will see if we can convince him to be a co-organizer!) – Deb Perelman’s The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook. Smitten Kitchen started out as blog where Deb Perelman shared the dishes she cooked in her tiny Manhattan kitchen. We were drawn to her cookbook because the recipes sounded delicious, but accessible. (more…)

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the cookbook The Santa Monica Farmers' Market Cookbook by Amelia Saltsman
Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook – Amelia Saltsman
July 4, 2016 Alana

Saturday, June 25 – 7:00pm

With the start of summer comes an abundance of fresh local produce, so for this month’s cookbook we selected The Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook by Amelia Saltsman. We’re lucky to live in the LA area and actually be able to go to the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market to get our ingredients. The cool thing about this cookbook is that the dishes are indexed by season, so we could look up Summer dishes, or in some cases Fall since we’re right on the cusp of the two seasons, and away we went! (more…)

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the cookbook Think Like A Chef by Tom Colicchio
Think Like a Chef – Tom Colicchio
June 1, 2016 Alana

Sunday, May 22 – 6:00pm

For our next adventure we decided on Tom Colicchio’s Think Like a Chef. You might know Colicchio as the head judge on TV show Top Chef. It turns out, this is one of Sheana’s favorite cookbooks. “It’s basically the cookbook that turned me on to cooking. It taught me how to braise, roast, emulsify and more.” It reads a bit more like a story than just a collection of recipes. Colicchio imparts how chefs think about seasonality of ingredients and flavor combinations. One of the unique things about his cookbook is the section called Trilogies, where he chooses 3 ingredients and then includes recipes for several different dishes that can be made with those same 3 ingredients. (more…)

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the cookbook Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi
Plenty – Yotam Ottolenghi
May 2, 2016 Alana

Saturday, April 23 – 12:30pm

At the end of each event, we talk about the cookbook for the next one. And after stuffing ourselves last month with all of the rich goodness from Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, we all kind of felt the need to cleanse. So in complete contrast, we went with Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty, which is a vegetable-focused cookbook. Ottolenghi is an Israeli-born British chef, known for creating Mediterranean-influenced recipes using fresh, seasonal ingredients, so his cookbook seemed like just what we were looking for. (more…)

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the cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child
Mastering the Art of French Cooking – Julia Child
April 4, 2016 Alana

Sunday, March 27 – 6:30pm

The inaugural Cookbook Club meeting! Inspired by Julie and Julia, we chose Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking as our first book. As you might expect, there was lots of butter, cheese, and cream! Perhaps something of an ambitious cookbook for us to start with, there were some members who did a bit of sifting to find Julia’s simpler recipes (me with the Oranges Glaces) and others who dove right in to take on dishes that were more like 4 recipes in 1 (props to Adrienne for tackling the Salade Nicoise!). (more…)

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