the cookbook Around the Fire by Greg Denton, Gabrielle Quinonez Denton, Stacy Adimando
Around the Fire – Greg Denton, Gabrielle Quinonez Denton, Stacy Adimando

Saturday, August 27 – 5:30pm

While we’re still in the summer months, we wanted to have a Cookbook Club event outside around an open fire, because fire is fun and grilled food is delicious! There’s a beach nearby with fire pits, so with that in mind as our event location, we chose the cookbook Around the Fire by Greg Denton, Gabrielle Quinonez Denton, and Stacy Adimando. Greg and Gabrielle are the owners of Ox Restaurant in Portland, where they cook dishes inspired by the wood-fired grilling tradition of Argentina. Their cookbook seemed perfect for our grilling event, plus it had awesome visuals! (more…)

The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook - Deb Perelman
The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook – Deb Perelman

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…)