The Book Club Cookbook

by Gelman, Judy; Krupp, Vicki Levy

• ISBN13: 9781585423224
• ISBN10: 158542322X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-11
• Publisher: Tarcher

Summary

This first cookbook created specifically for book clubs shows readers how to add a delightfully delicious angle to their book club gatherings. Featuring recipes and food-related discussion ideas for one hundred popular book club selections, The Book Club Cookbookguides readers in selecting and preparing culinary masterpieces that tie in just right with the literary masterpieces their club is reading. From "Honey Cakes" to go along with The Secret Life of Beesby Sue Monk Kidd to "Eggplant Caponata" to go with Bel Canto by Ann Patchett; from "Lemony Goat Cheese Tart" with Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel to "Shrimp Flautas" for Empire Fallsby Richard Russo; The Book Club Cookbookmakes adding foods that stem from the books your club reads fun and easy. Vicki Levy Krupp and Judy Gelman polled hundreds of book clubs all over the country to determine what their members are reading and to discover the creative ways that they're integrating food into their meetings. With recipes and colorful background information on the role that food plays in the reading choices-much of which was contributed by the authors of the book club selections themselves- The Book Club Cookbookwill add some real flavor to your book club meetings.

Author Biography

Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp have participated in many book clubs. After taking a cooking class together, they began meeting regularly at a local sandwich shop. There, over stacks of library books, endless cups of coffee, and bagel sandwiches, The Book Club Cookbook was born.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xv
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton	1	(5)
ROMAN PUNCH
LEMONADE
Ahab's Wife: or, The Star-Gazer
Sena Jeter Naslund	6	(5)
JAN KESHEN'S SEAFOOD CHOWDER
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon	11	(5)
COCOA-CINNAMON BABKA
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt	16	(6)
KATHERINE THOMERSON'S IRISH BROWN SODA BREAD
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner	22	(6)
MEXICAN CHOCOLATE TORTE
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy	28	(5)
WILD MUSHROOMS ON TOAST
Atonement
Ian McEwan	33	(4)
MARY KATE DILLON'S BREAD-AND-BUTTER PUDDING
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai Sijie	37	(5)
SPICY PORK WITH ORANGE HOISIN SAUCE IN WONTON CUPS
Bee Season
Myla Goldberg	42	(4)
CHOCOLATE CHIP SHORTBREAD COOKIES
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett	46	(6)
EGGPLANT CAPONATA
The Bonesetter's Daughter
Amy Tan	52	(6)
FOUNTAIN COURT EGGPLANT SAUTEED WITH FRESH BASIL
FOUNTAIN COURT LION'S HEAD CLAY POT OF MEATBALLS AND RICE VERMICELLI
Cane River
Lalita Tademy	58	(7)
JOAN AND LALITA'S PEACH COBBLER
Chocolat
Joanne Harris	65	(6)
HOT COCOA
CHOCOLATE FONDUE
The Coldest Winter Ever
Sister Souljah	71	(6)
STEPHANIE GROVES'S SPICY BUFFALO WINGS
BLUE-CHEESE DRESSING
BLUE-CHEESE DIPPING SAUCE
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
James McBride	77	(4)
DOTTIE'S FAMOUS PEANUT BUTTER PIE
Corelli's Mandolin
Louis de Bernieres	81	(4)
SPANAKOPITA
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown	85	(6)
JULI ROSENBAUM'S ROSEMARY SPAGHETTI
JOHN HORNBURG'S DEATH BY CHOCOLATE
Daughter of Fortune
Isabel Allende	91	(4)
SPICED TURKEY EMPANADAS
The Devil Wears Prada
Lauren Weisberger	95	(4)
SUN-DRIED TOMATO AND GOAT CHEESE PIZZA
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Erik Larson	99	(7)
SHAW'S CRAB HOUSE LOBSTER BISQUE
SHAW'S CRAB HOUSE WILD TURKEY MANHATTAN
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee	106	(4)
SWEET POTATOES
The Dive from Clausen's Pier
Ann Packer	110	(5)
SOUR CHERRY PIE
BASIC PIE CRUST
Douglass' Women
Jewell Parker Rhodes	115	(5)
BANANA CREAM PIE
The Emperor of Ocean Park
Stephen L. Carter	120	(5)
CRAB CAKES WITH SPICY REMOULADE
Empire Falls
Richard Russo	125	(4)
SHRIMP FLAUTAS
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing	129	(4)
OATMEAL BISCUITS
Fair and Tender Ladies
Lee Smith	133	(4)
LEE SMITH'S PIMENTO CHEESE
PATSY HOPKINS'S PIMENTO CHEESE
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry	137	(6)
THE TAAL RESTAURANT'S CHICKEN BIRYANI (BASMATI RICE WITH CHICKEN)
GARAM MASALA
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
Dava Sobel	143	(6)
LEMONY RICOTTA-GOAT CHEESE CAKE
Getting Mother's Body
Suzan-Lori Parks	149	(4)
RHONDA HANEY'S GREENS
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier	153	(4)
GRIET'S VEGETABLE SOUP
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy	157	(10)
AMBER MASUD'S ALGO TIKKI (POTATO CUTLETS) WITH GREEN CHUTNEY
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck 16z
SCALLION-GINGER FRIED RICE
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck	167	(9)
ONE MAIN STREET CAFE'S ARTICHOKE-JALAPEÑO SPREAD WITH TOMATO BRUSCHETTA TOPPING
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald	171
MINT JULEP
SIMPLE SYRUP
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling	176	(5)
TREACLE TART
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Sarah Louise Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany	181	(5)
POUND CAKE WITH FRESH COCONUT FROSTING
A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
Ron Suskind	186	(6)
MAMA'S POPULAR TRIAL-AND-ERROR POTATO SALAD
MAMA'S DELICIOUS SPICY FRIED PARTY WINGS
The Hours
Michael Cunningham	192	(5)
BRITTA'S CRAB CASSEROLE
House of Sand and Fog
Andre Dubus III	197	(4)
KHOREST BADEMJAN EGGPLANT AND TOMATO STEW) WITH BEEF
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith	201	(3)
SINGAPORE SLING
Interpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri	204	(6)
MRS. LAHIRI'S HARD-BOILED-EGG CURRY IN MUSTARD SAUCE
MASALAART'S MANGO LASSI
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte	210	(6)
NEGUS
WALNUT TEA SANDWICHES
The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara	216	(6)
CIVIL WAR CHERRY-APPLE COBBLER WITH SWEET VANILLA CUSTARD
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini	222	(6)
BRITTA'S SABZI CHALLOW SPINACH AND RICE WITH LAMB
CHALLOW (RICE)
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
Queen Noor of Jordan	228	(7)
HER MAJESTY'S MUJADARA LENTILS AND RICE WITH CUCUMBER YOGURT
HER MAJESTY'S SPINACH BÖREK (PASTRY)
A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest Gaines	235	(5)
EDNA LEWIS AND SCOTT PEACOCK'S OLD-FASHIONED TEA CAKES
HOMEMADE BAKING POWDER
Life of Pi
Yann Martel	240	(5)
TANDOORI SHRIMP
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez	245	(5)
MOJITOS
MANGO, JICAMA, AND CORN SALAD
Mama Day
Gloria Naylor	250	(5)
PEACHES-AND-CREAM PIE WITH STREUSEL TOPPING
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden	255	(4)
TERIYAKI BEEF SKEWERS TERIYAKI SAUCE
Middlemarch
George Eliot	259	(6)
APPLE PUFFS
HOMEMADE PUFF PASTRY
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides	265	(6)
ELAINE OGDEN'S GREEK RICE PUDDING TZATZIKI
Milk in My Coffee
Eric Jerome Dickey	271	(4)
LEMON CHEESECAKE
Motherless Brooklyn
Jonathan Lethem	275	(6)
ZAYTOON'S CHICKEN SHWARMA
My Ántonia
Willa Cather	281	(5)
DANIELA SEVER'S FAVORITE SPICED PLUM KOLACHES
My Soul to Keep
Tananarive Due	286	(7)
DORO WAT (CHICKEN STEW) WITH INJERA (FLATBREAD)
NITER KEBBEH (SPICE) BUTTER)
BERBERE PASTE
Mystic River
Dennis Lehane	293	(7)
DREW HEVLE'S ITALIAN SAUSAGE AND PEPPERS
DENISE DIROCCO'S MARINARA SAUCE
KERSTIN JANSSON'S SWEDISH MEATBALLS
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Barbara Ehrenreich	300	(3)
MOZZARELLA STICKS
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Geraldine Brooks	303	(4)
FRED SAIFNIA'S SALAD SHIRAZI (TOMATO-CUCUMBER SALAD)
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt-The Home Front in World War II
Doris Kearns Goodwin	307	(5)
MRS. NESBITT'S ANGEL FOOD CAKE WITH LEMON CREAM
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith	312	(4)
PUMPKIN SOUP
October Suite
Maxine Clair	316	(6)
KATHY GALLIGAN'S DEVILED EGGS
BALSAMIC VINAIGRETTE
PINK LADY
SOUR MIX
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
Jim Fergus	322	(5)
INDIAN FRY BREAD
The Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty	327	(3)
SOUTHERN CHEESE STRAWS
Palace Walk
Naguib Mahfouz	330	(5)
MRS. MAHFOUZ'S MULUKHIYA (GREEN SOUP)
MRS. MAHFOUZ'S LABANEYA (SPINACH SOUP WITH YOGURT)
Peace Like a River
Leif Enger	335	(5)
MRS. ENGER'S CINNAMON ROLLS WITH COFFEE FROSTING
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Sebastian Junger	340	(4)
SWORDFISH KABOBS
Personal History
Katharine Graham	344	(5)
CAVIAR PIE
Plainsong
Kent Haruf	349	(4)
CHEWY OATMEAL COOKIES
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver	353	(5)
SALADI YA MATUNDA (TROPICAL FRUIT SALAD)
Pope Joan
Donna Woolfolk Cross	358	(5)
CORMARYE (ROAST PORK WITH CORIANDER-CARAWAY SAUCE)
A Prayer for Owen Meany
John Irving	363	(4)
BANANA-PINEAPPLE SMOOTHIE
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi	367	(7)
KOLUCHEH YAZDI (CAKE)
The Red Tent
Anita Diamant	374	(5)
FIG SPREAD AND GOAT CHEESE TOASTS
A River Sutra
Gita Mehta	379	(4)
GITA MEHTA'S GANGA-JAMNA DAL (LENTILS)
The Road from Coorain
Jill Ker Conway	383	(4)
VICKI LEE BOYAJIAN'S ANZAC COOKIES
The Samurai's Garden
Gail Tsukiyama	387	(4)
HIYASHI UDON COLD UDON NOODLES WITH DIPPING SAUCE
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Laura Hillenbrand	391	(3)
PUMPKIN BISCUITS
The Secret History
Donna Tartt	394	(4)
NORTHERN TRUST BANK'S GRILLED PORTOBELLO MUSHROOMS
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd	398	(5)
HONEY CAKE
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson	403	(4)
MRS. SHIBAYAMA'S FRESH STRAWBERRY PIE
The Sparrow
Mary Doria Russell	407	(3)
TEMBLEQUE (COCONUT PUDDING)
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Anne Fadiman	410	(6)
KABYOB (HMONG EGGROLLS) WITH KUA TXOB HOT DIPPING SAUCE
Stones from the River
Ursula Hegi	416	(6)
BIENENSTICH BEE STING CAKE
Sugar
Bernice L. McFadden	422	(5)
GREAT-GRANDMA OLIVIA'S SWEET POTATO PIE SWEETENED WHIPPED CREAM
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston	427	(5)
BLACK-EYED PEA CAKES WITH JALAPEÑO-AVOCADO SALSA
A Thousand Acres
Jane Smiley	432	(5)
BAKED CORN CASSEROLE
Three Junes
Julia Glass	437	(7)
WHITE CHOCOLATE MOUSSE
GREG CASE'S FROZEN LIME SOUFFLE
RASPBERRY SAUCE
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee	444	(24)
AMBROSIA
Waiting
Ha Jin	468	(5)
SPICY SHRIMP IN BLACK BEAN SAUCE
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Bill Bryson	473	(4)
VERY YELLOW LEMON MERINGUE PIE
The Weight of Water
Anita Shreve	477	(5)
PAUL EHLEN'S SWEDISH PANCAKES
Were the Heart Is
Billie Letts	482	(4)
BANANA BREAD
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang	486
JUNG CHANG'S STIR-FRIED CARROTS
The Tortilla Curtain
T. Coraghessan Boyle	447	(5)
TOSTADAS WITH GREEN CHILE SALSA
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith	452	(5)
CHARLOTTE RUSSE
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Mitch Albom	457	(5)
PAUL SHIPLEY'S EGG SALAD
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
Stephen Ambrose	462	(29)
MACEDOINE OF RED FRUITS SWEETENED SOUR CREAM
Winter Wheat
Mildred Walker	491	(6)
IRINA SHVED'S BORSCH (BEET SOUP)
Recipe for a Book Club	497	(2)
Purchasing Information	499	(4)
Acknowledgments	503	(3)
Index	506