Register through the library's website to let us know what you're bringing: https://berlinpeck.org/events/2025-08-cookbook-club/
Do you enjoy flipping through cookbooks to decide what to make?
Do you search through recipes for inspiration?
Come join our monthly book club, featuring cookbooks! Just register, pick a recipe from the specified cookbook, make the dish on your own, and then gather for a feast. While you eat, you can discuss the cookbook, its recipes and the process of choosing what to make and how to make it. We will aim to evenly distribute the recipes among starters and sides, main courses, and desserts.
You do not need to be an experienced cook, just an enthusiastic one!
How Do I Participate?
Register for the program.
Visit the Adult Reference Desk to view the cookbook and pick a recipe. Some copies are available to borrow.
Let us know which recipe you picked. You can call, email, or visit in person.
Then bring in your dish for a fun potluck!
About the Book
This month’s cookbooks are Snacks for Dinner: Small Bites, Full Plates, Can’t Lose by Lukas Volger for dinner options and Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s by B. Dylan Hollis for dessert!
Snacks for Dinner: Small Bites, Full Plates, Can’t Lose by Lukas Volger
We’ve all been there. Pressed for time, patience, or the will to cook yet another meal, we turn to eating snacks for dinner. While these “meals” are often thrown together, there is no denying that grazing on smaller bites is less stressful and often more pleasurable than planning and preparing a traditional meal. In Snacks for Dinner, Volger transforms carefree noshing into nourishing meals with recipes to inspire your own make-from-scratch snack spreads that are not only quick to makes, but also deeply satisfying.
Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s by B. Dylan Hollis.
Travel back on a delicious decade-by-decade jaunt as Hollis shows you how to bake vintage forgotten greats. From Chocolate potato cake to Avocado pie, he has collected these recipes from antique cookbooks from the 1900s to the 1980s. Some are spectacular failures– and others are disastrously strange. Others are delightful blasts from the past that you just may end up adding to your permanent collection.
