We are home cooks from Portland, Oregon, who pick a different cookbook every month, cook a bunch of recipes from it, then get together to share what we made on our podcast. We also dig deep into cooking topics like our favorite holiday recipes, most beloved kitchen tools, and favorite family meals.
Our Cookbook Club started in 2018 when a small group of women decided to build community around our love of making delicious food and exploring new recipes. It quickly expanded into a solid base of avid home cooks with an insatiable appetite for trying recipes and cookbooks to see if they deserve a place on our cookbook shelves.
Cook along with us every month as we choose a new cookbook to try. It’s not always the newest release – in fact, we prefer that it’s something we can easily find at the library. We are also trying to seek out cookbooks written by authors of color and those sharing their own food culture through cookbooks.
We’ll announce upcoming cookbooks in the show notes and on Instagram so you can be part of the fun. Please reach out if you have a show idea or something to share — we love hearing from listeners! Our podcast is released every other Wednesday.
Tag us on Instagram @cookbookclubshow or leave us a voice memo at cookbookclubshow@gmail.com to share how things turned out.
Sara Gray
Sara is a former vegan who shares her dinner table with two young kids and a meat-loving husband. She is an award-winning baker, starting with the Oregon State Fair as a 13-year old to the prestigious Portland Pie-Off as an adult.
In her day job, she helps people buy and sell homes (and then throws confetti at them once they do).
Sara loves to prepare a mise en place before starting a recipe, and always measures by weight when baking. She appreciates simple recipes, but also loves to take on an ambitious baking project.
Renee Wilkinson
Renee grew up on an urban farm where eating what you grew was part of everyday life. She shares her kitchen table with three young (picky) kids and a partner who eats (mostly) anything.
She works as a landscape designer, writer, and is the published author of Modern Homestead. You can fall down a rabbit hole on her website.
She’s not afraid of long ingredient lists, but despises getting to the third step in a recipe only to discover there’s a recipe-within-a-recipe (what she calls a “nesting doll recipe”).
