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The book club cookbook, recipes and food for thought from your book club's favorite books and authors, Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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index present

non fiction

The book club cookbook

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Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp

recipes and food for thought from your book club's favorite books and authors

"A revised and updated edition of the classic guide to adding flavor to your book club gatherings! Whether it's Roman punch with The Age of Innocence, Sabzi Challow (spinach and rice) and lamb with The Kite Runner, or ambrosia with To Kill a Mockingbird, nothing spices up a book club meeting like great eats. Featuring recipes and discussion ideas for one hundred popular club selections, this cookbook guides readers in selecting and preparing culinary masterpieces that blend perfectly with the literary masterpieces their club is reading. This fully revised and updated edition includes a full-color, 8-page photo insert, and new contributions from a host of today's bestselling authors, offering recipes and commentary from: -Sara Gruen-Water for Elephants (Oyster Brie Soup) -Kathryn Stockett-The Help (Demetrie's Chocolate Pie and Caramel Cake) -Jodi Picoult-My Sister's Keeper (Brian Fitzgerald's Firehouse Marinara Sauce) -Annie Barrows-The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Annie Barrows' Potato Peel Pie and Non- Occupied Potato Peel Pie) -Chris Cleave-Little Bee (Post-Colonial Pie)The Book Club Cookbook will add flavor to your book club meetings!"--, Provided by publisher"Whether it's mojitos or honey cake, nothing spices up a book club meeting like great eats. Featuring recipes and discussion ideas for one hundred popular book club selections, this book will guide you in selecting and preparing culinary masterpieces that blend perfectly with the literary masterpieces your club is reading"--, Provided by publisher

The Age of Innocence / Edith Wharton. Roman punch ; Lemonade -- Ahab's Wife: or, The Star-Gazer / Sena Jeter Naslund. Seafood chowder -- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay / Michael Chabon. Cocoa-cinnamon babka -- Angela's Ashes / Frank McCourt. Irish brown soda bread -- Angle of Repose / Wallace Stegner. Mexican chocolate torte -- Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy. Wild mushrooms on toast -- Atonement / Ian McEwan. Bread-and-butter pudding -- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress / Dai Sijie. Spicy pork with orange hoisin sauce in wonton cups -- Bee Season / Myla Goldberg. Chocolate chip shortbread cookies -- Bel Canto / Ann Patchett. Eggplant caponata -- The Bonesetter's Daughter / Amy Tan. Fountain Court eggplant sauteed with fresh basil ; Fountain Court lion's head clay pot of meatballs and rice vermicelli -- The Book Thief / Markus Zusak. Markus Zusaks vanilla kipferls (crescent cookies) -- Cane River / Lalita Tademy. Joan and Lalita's peach cobbler -- Chocolat / Joanne Harris. Hot cocoa ; Chocolate fondue -- The Coldest Winter Ever / Sister Souljah. 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. Dottie's famouse peanut butter pie -- Corelli's Mandolin / Louis de Bernieres. Spankakopita -- Cutting for Stone / Abraham Verghese. Almaz's Ethiopian doro wot ; Sister Mary Joseph Praise's cari de dal -- The Da Vinci Code / Dan Brown. Rosemary spaghetti ; John Hornburg's death by chocolate -- Daughter of Fortune / Isabel Allende. Spiced turkey empanadas -- The Devil Wears Prada / Lauren Weisberger. 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. Shaw's Crab House lobster bisque ; Shaw's Crab House Wild Turkey Manhattan -- Disgrace / J.M. Coetzee. Sweet potatoes -- The Dive From Clausen's Pier / Ann Packer. Sour cherry pie ; Basic piecrust -- Empire Falls / Richard Russo. Shrimp flautas -- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage / Alfred Lansing. Oatmeal biscuits -- A Fine Balance / Robinton Mistry. The Taal Restaurant's chicken biryani (basmati rice with chicken) ; Garam masala -- Freedom / Jonathan Franzen. Dorothy's famous Christmas toffee -- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium Trilogy, book 1) / Stieg Larsson. Swedish meatballs ; Glogg (hot spiced wine) -- Girl With a Pearl Earring / Tracy Chevalier. Griet's vegetable soup -- The God of Small Things / Arundhati Roy. Aloo tikki (potato cutlets) with green chutney -- The Good Earth / Pearl S. Buck. Scallion-ginger fried rice -- The Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck. One Main Street Cafe's artichoke-jalapeno spread with tomato bruschetta topping -- The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald. Mint julep ; Simple syrup -- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. Annie Barrow's potato peel pie and non-occupied potato peel pie -- Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel / Jeanette Walls. Cowboy hash ; Cornbread fritters -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone / J.K. Rowling. Treacle tart -- The Help / Kathryn Stockett. Demetrie's chocolate pie ; Caramel cake -- The Hours / Michael Cunningham. Britta's crab casserole -- House of Sand and Fog / Andre Dubus III. Khorest bademjan (eggplant and tomato stew) with beef -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot. Rebecca Skloot's chicken diable ; Rebecca Skloot's Caesar salad -- Infidel / Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Angellos (Somali pancakes) -- Intepreter of Maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri. Mrs. Lahiri's hard-bouiled-egg curry in mustard sauce ; Masala art's mango lassi (yogurt drink) -- Jane Eyre / Charlotte Bronte. Negus ; Walnut tea sandwiches -- The Killer Angels / Michael Shaara. Civil War cherry-apple cobbler with sweet vanilla custard -- The Kite Runner / Khaled Hosseini. Britta's sabzi challow (spinach and rice) with lamb -- Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life / Queen Noor of Jordan. Her Majesty's mujadara (lentils and rice) with cucumber yogurt ; Her Majesty's spinach borek (pastry) -- A Lesson Before Dying / Ernest Gaines. Old-fashioned tea cakes ; Homemade baking powder -- Life of Pi / Yann Martel. Tandoori shrimp -- Little Bee / Chris Cleave. Post-Colonial pie -- Love in the Time of Cholera / Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Mojitos ; Mango, jicama, and corn salad -- Major Pettigrew's last stand / Helen Simonson. Helen Simonson's toad-in-the-hole -- Mama Day / Gloria Naylor. Peaches-and-cream pie with streusel topping -- Memoirs of a geisha / Arthur Golden. Teriyaki beef skewers ; Teriyaki sauce -- Middlemarch / George Eliot. Apple puffs ; Homemade puff pastry -- Middlesex / Jeffrey Eugenides. Greek rice pudding ; Tzatziki (yogurt dip) -- Motherless Brooklyn / Jonathan Lethem. Zaytoon's chicken shwarma -- My Antonia / Willa Cather. Spiced plum kolaches (pastry) -- My Sister's Keeper / Jodi Picoult. Firehouse marinara sauce -- Mystic River / Dennis Lehane. Italian sausage and peppers ; Marinara sauce ; Swedish meatballs -- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America / Barbara Ehrenreich. Mozzarella sticks -- Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women / Geraldine Brooks. Salad shirazi (tomato-cucumber salad) -- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency / Alexander McCall Smith. Pumpkin soup -- No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Home Front in World War II / Doris Kearns Goodwin. Mrs. Nesbitt's angel food cake with lemon cream -- Olive Kitteridge / Elizabeth Strout. Olive Kitteridge's grandmother's doughnuts -- One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd / Jim Fergus. Indian fry bread -- The Optimist's Daughter / Eudora Welty. Southern cheese straws -- Palace Walk / Naguib Mahfouz. Mrs. Mahfouz's mulukhiya (green soup) ; Mrs. Mahfouz's labaneya (spinach soup with yogurt) -- Peace Like a River / Leif Enger. Mrs. Enger's cinnamon rolls with coffee frosting -- The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Agasint the Sea / Sebastian Junger. Swordfish kabobs -- Personal History / Katharine Graham. Caviar pie -- Plainsong / Kent Haruf. Chewy oatmeal cookies -- The Poisonwood Bible / Barbara Kingsolver. Saladi ya matunda (tropical fruit salad) -- Pope Joan / Donna Woolfolk Cross / Cormarye (roast pork with coriander-caraway sauce) -- A Prayer For Owen Meany / John Irving. Banana-pineapple smoothie -- Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books / Azar Nafisi. Kolucheh yazdi (cake) -- The Red Tend / Anita Diamant. Fig spread and goat cheese toasts -- Room / Emma Donoghue. Jack's sixth-birthday cake -- The Samurai's Garden / Gail Tsukiyama. Hiyashi udon (cold udon noodles) with dipping sauce -- Sarah's Key / Tatiana de Rosnay. New York-style cheesecake ; Kir Royale cocktail -- Seabiscuit: An American Legend. Pumpkin biscuits -- The Secret Life of Bees / Sue Monk Kidd. Honey cake -- The Shadow of the Wind / Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Chirizo and potato Spanish tortilla bites -- Snow Falling on Cedars / David Guterson. Fresh strawberry pie -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan / Lisa See. Lisa See's deep-fried sugared taro -- South of Broad / Pat Conroy. Benne wafers ; Slightly north of Broad's Black Bottom Pie -- The Sparrow / Mary Doria Russell. Tembleque (coconut pudding) -- Stones From the River / Ursula Hegi. Bienenstich (bee sting cake) -- Their Eyes Were Watching God / Zora Neale Hurston. Black-eyed pea cakes with jalapeno-avocado salsa -- Three Junes / Julia Glass. White chocolate mousse ; Frozen lime souffle ; Raspberry sauce -- To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee. Ambrosia -- The Tortilla Curtain / T. Coraghessan Boyle. Tostadas with green chile salsa -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith. Charlotte Russe ; Sweetened whipped cream -- Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West / Stephen Ambrose. Macedoine of red fruits ; Sweetened sour cream -- A Visit From the Goon Squad / Jennifer Egan. Jennifer Egan's oatmeal fudge "refrigerator" cookies -- Waiting / Ha Jin. Spicy shrimp in black bean sauce -- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail / Bill Bryson. Very yellow lemon meringue pie -- Water for Elephants / Sara Gruen. Oyster brie soup (the Grove Park Inn's recipe) -- The Weight of Water / Anita Shreve. Swedish pancakes -- Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China / Jung Chang. Jung Chang's stir-fried carrots