About Our Talk

We enjoy meeting book enthusiasts across the country when we speak to private groups, and at conferences, libraries, bookstores, and book festivals. Please check our schedule of events to see if we’ll be in your area.

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Presentation Description

The Book Club Cookbook:
Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club’s Favorite Books and Authors
(Tarcher/Penguin, 2004)
By Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp

What are book clubs across America reading – and eating? How do successful groups create exciting meetings? And how can food add a unique and delicious dimension to discussions of literature? Join us as we discuss what we learned in conversations with hundreds of book club members across America. We’ll share the secrets of sustaining a vital, exciting book club, and the creative ways that book clubs across the country are integrating food into their meetings.  We can also discuss the evolutionary process of writing The Book Club Cookbook: finding the titles that make book clubs tick; pairing recipes with literature; and contacting best-selling authors who share a fascination with food.  Generally, a sampling of foods from our book is made available to the audience after our talk — always a welcome aspect of the event!