Looking for snacks, dishes, or drinks inspired by the reading selection for your book club? Book club members continually request—and share— ideas for book-related fare. Integrating book-related cuisine into meetings offers a chance to connect with the literature, try new recipes, and spice up their discussion. Some are dishes or foods mentioned in the pages of these titles, while others are simply imaginative ideas from these groups. We hope these ideas spark your own culinary imagination.
Please note that some of these suggestions will make sense to you only after reading the book. Looking for a book club menu or have menu ideas to share? If you're contacting us by Messenger, we can respond only if send your email address. You can also contact us here! New featured author menus are posted on Instagram , Facebook, and Twitter. However, most of the food that was served to the queen was so extravagant, so over the top, that nobody would want to cook it today—certainly not to go along with a book group meeting!
Menus included real turtle soup first catch your turtle , lark and blackbird pie, and creations that included venison stuffed with lobster and other unlikely pairings that would surely make us sick today. I suggest a traditional British tea party, starting with thin cucumber sandwiches, then the scones served with jam and clotted cream thick whipping cream will do , and finally various cakes.
And of course English tea with milk. In her later life, Lee became a gourmet chef--almost a Surrealist version of Julia Child. There's an entire cookbook of her recipes. Our host made us favors with a Rose tea bag and rosebud soaps! Also : The Happy Bookers, Sterling, Virginia: European-style Allied dishes: Dutch cheeses with crackers, French chicken cordon bleu and ratatouille, American mac and cheese, English sticky toffee pudding.
Even though the book was set in the prohibition era, we enjoyed wine. While abalone is a bit scarce in the Midwest, we followed through on the quote from page 38 "Then all you need is a vegetable garden in your backyard and you will never go hungry? Spread around a 22" wooden board, we lunched on smoked and cured ham slices, sourdough bread, locally-grown tart red apples and yellow pears, tomatoes, sharp white cheddar and Gorgonzola cheese, red lettuce, and Chutney.
