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February 15th | 4:00PMCookbook Club
What to ExpectCelebrating our love of food and community with our quarterly cookbook club.
❋ Great BooksThe coming together with people who love food.
❋ Great FoodCelebrating cooking
❋ Great SpaceSeasons Cookbook Store is where its at.
❋ Great PeopleSpending time with people who love good food is good for our soul.
FebruaryLinger by Hetty Lui McKinnon
We picked this one because, honestly? The title alone felt like a mission statement for everything we're about here.
Linger is Hetty Lui McKinnon's love letter to the kind of meal that doesn't end — the one where nobody checks their phone and someone eventually just opens another bottle of wine.
She's the reigning queen of the New York Times Cooking section, and this book is less of a cookbook and more of a manual on how to slow down and linger.
Come with your copy, your thoughts, and your appetite.
March Padma’s All American A Cookbook by Padma Lakshmi
Okay, can we talk about how this book is basically everything we believe in — all wrapped up in 100+ recipes and a whole lot of heart?
Padma's All American is Padma Lakshmi's love letter to the people who actually built American food culture — immigrant and Indigenous communities whose kitchens have been quietly (and not so quietly) shaping the way this country eats. She spent seven years traveling the country for her show Taste the Nation, collecting recipes and sitting with people long enough to actually hear their stories. The result is Afghani dumplings, Amazonian tamales made with yuca, Oaxacan mushroom tacos, Persian rice pudding — and the very compelling argument that American food has always been a beautiful, delicious mess of everywhere else.
It's a cookbook. It's also kind of a rebuttal. And honestly? It felt right at home on our shelves.
Come cook something from it, bring your thoughts, and let's talk about food, identity, and why the table has always been the best place to figure out who we are.
Meeting Date and Time:
May 17th 4:00PM - 6:00PM
10880 N 32nd St. Suite 21
Phoenix AZ 85028
August 2026Mayumu by Abi Balingit
August's pick is giving us all the feels — and honestly, all the cookies.
Mayumu (which means "sweet" in Kapampangan, one of the eight major languages of the Philippines) is Abi Balingit's love letter to Filipino American desserts — and to what happens when two food cultures stop being polite and start getting creative. Think adobo chocolate chip cookies with bay leaves and pink peppercorn. Halo-halo baked Alaska. Lychee madeleines with hibiscus tea glaze. This woman is not playing around.
It's a baking book, a memoir, and a really good argument for putting adobo in your desserts. Come with your copy, your thoughts, and maybe one of the recipes
Meeting Date and Time:
August 16th 4:00PM - 6:00PM
10880 N 32nd St., Suite 21
Phoenix, AZ 85028