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The Book Club Cookbook Cooking Project

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From July 2015 through July 2016, we were on a year-long journey to explore - and cook from - The Book Club Cookbook, Revised Edition: Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club's Favorite Books and Authors by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp.*

Judy, Vicki, and their publisher, Tarcher-Penguin, provided the hosting bloggers copies of the book plus copies to giveaway each month of the project. Woohoo. Incredibly generous.
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Who
Here's the hosting team, in alphabetical order with links to their homepages....


Follow us on social media with the hashtag #thebookclubcookbookCC. We posted all of our creations to our Pinterest board.

Hosting Schedule

July 2015:  Culinary Adventures with Camilla
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Announcement Post (here) / Round-Up Post (here)

August 2015: Adventures in All Things Food  
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson
Announcement Post (here) / Round-Up Post (here)

September 2015: Tortillas and Honey
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
Announcement Post (here) / Round-Up Post (here)

October 2015:  A Day in the Life on the Farm 
Three Junes by Julia Glass
Announcement Post (here) / Round-Up Post (here)

November 2015: The Spiffy Cookie 
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Announcement Post (here) / Round-Up Post (here)

December 2015: HOLIDAY HIATUS

January 2016: The Pajama Chef   
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Announcement Post (here) / Round-Up Post (here)

February 2016: Cheese Curd In Paradise 
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Announcement Post (here) / Round-Up Post (here)

March 2016: Life on Food  
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 
Announcement Post (here) / Round-Up Post (here)

April 2016: Things I Make (for Dinner) 
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Announcement Post (here) / Round-Up Post (here)

May 2016: Mostly Food and Crafts and A Day in the Life on the Farm
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Announcement Post (here) / Round-Up Post (here)

June 2016: Things I Make (for Dinner) 
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Announcement Post (here) / Round-Up Post (here)

July 2016: Culinary Adventures with Camilla
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
Announcement Post (here) / Round-Up Post (here)

*Disclosure: Bloggers received complimentary copies of The Book Club Cookbook, Revised Edition: Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club's Favorite Books and Authors by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp to use in this year-long project plus the opportunity to give a copy away. Opinions are our own. We received no further compensation for our posts.

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