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Food52’s Cookbook Club has been “meeting” for over seven years—on Facebook. Now, we’re finally gathering IRL! Together with NYC cookbook club organizer Stephanie Lau, we’re throwing a Cookbook Club Friendsgiving on Thursday, November 14 with special guest Hetty Lui McKinnon. You don’t need to be a member to join us, but you’ll want to get your hands on a copy of Hetty’s book, Tenderheart, or hunt down some of her Tenderheart recipes online (we can help!).
We’ll be bringing and sharing dishes from this IACP Award-winning cookbook that our members have been cooking from as our “Book of the Year.” It’s a love letter to vegetarian cuisine and the produce that Hetty’s father sold and shared with family and friends, with an emphasis on Asian-influenced flavors and techniques. Her sweet and savory recipes cover 22 vegetables in all, including fall favorites like squash, sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts, and cauliflower. It’s the perfect book to dig into ahead of Thanksgiving to find your new favorite main, side, or dessert for this year’s feast.
We’ll send you a sign-up sheet once you register to share the dish you want to bring. (Hetty will be bringing a dish and signing cookbooks, too, so bring your copy of Tenderheart and her other titles from your shelves.) You’ll have access to our Test Kitchen ovens to warm things up, but we ask that you bring your dish ready-made and to list the ingredients on cards that we provide. And as a thank you for making and bringing a dish, we’ll have gift totes to take home and you’ll be entered to win a special prize for your holiday cooking.
Get your ticket here. (By buying a ticket and/or participating in this event, you acknowledge and agree to our Ts&Cs linked here.)
If you can’t make it our Food52 HQ event, we’re encouraging our members around the world to organize their own Tenderheart Friendsgivings around the same time. Join our Facebook Group to see if anyone is planning a supper club near you.
And stay tuned for our next Cookbook Club gathering December 5. We’ll be baking and swapping treats from Dolci! with author Renato Poliafito, who has promised to bring cookies! Comment below if you’d like to come to our Dolci! event—we’ll share the Eventbrite link as soon as it’s live.
Questions? Email us at: [email protected]