The Book Club Cookbook : Recipes and Food from Your Book
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14974_00_i-xviii_r6mj.qxd 5/18/04 12:04 PM Page i 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 THE BOOK CLUB 9 10 COOKBOOK 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 S33 R34 3rd PASS PAGES 14974_00_i-xviii_r6mj.qxd 5/18/04 12:04 PM Page ii 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 J EREMY P. T ARCHER/PENGUIN 16 a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 17 New York 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33S 34R 3rd PASS PAGES 14974_00_i-xviii_r6mj.qxd 5/18/04 12:04 PM Page iii 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 THE BOOK CLUB 9 10 COOKBOOK 11 12 13 14 Recipes and Food for Thought 15 16 from Your Book Club’s 17 Favorite Books and Authors 18 19 20 21 Judy Gelman and 22 23 Vicki Levy Krupp 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 S33 R34 The recipes in this book are to be followed exactly as written. The publisher and authors are not responsible for specific health or allergy needs that may require medical supervision. The publisher and authors are not responsible for any adverse reactions to the recipes in this book. 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MSR ISBN 0-7865-4745-6 AEB ISBN 0-7865-4746-4 book design by amanda dewey Making or distributing electronic copies of this book constitutes copyright infringement and could subject the infringer to criminal and civil liability. 14974_00_i-xviii_r6mj.qxd 5/18/04 12:04 PM Page v 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 For my mother, Doris Gelman, 9 who inspired my love of literature. 10 11 12 And in memory of my father, George Gelman, 13 who savored good food and good books. 14 15 In memory of my mother, Barbara Montag Levy, 16 whose kitchen was always brimming with love. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 S33 R34 2nd PASS PAGES 14974_00_i-xviii_r6mj.qxd 5/18/04 12:04 PM Page vi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33S 34R 3rd PASS PAGES 14974_00_i-xviii_r6mj.qxd 5/18/04 12:04 PM Page vii 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, 9 and some few to be chewed and digested. 10 11 —francis bacon 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 S33 R34 2nd PASS PAGES 14974_00_i-xviii_r6mj.qxd 5/18/04 12:04 PM Page viii 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33S 34R 3rd PASS PAGES 14974_00_i-xviii_r6mj.qxd 5/18/04 12:04 PM Page ix 1 Contents 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Introduction xv Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress 12 • Dai Sijie 37 Spicy Pork with Orange Hoisin Sauce 13 The Age of Innocence • Edith Wharton 1 Roman Punch in Wonton Cups 14 Lemonade 15 Bee Season • Myla Goldberg 42 Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies 16 Ahab’s Wife: or, The Star-Gazer 17 Sena Jeter Naslund 6 • Bel Canto • Ann Patchett 46 18 Jan Keshen’s Seafood Chowder Eggplant Caponata 19 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay The Bonesetter’s Daughter • Amy Tan 52 20 • Michael Chabon 11 Fountain Court Eggplant Sautéed 21 Cocoa-Cinnamon Babka with Fresh Basil 22 Fountain Court Lion’s Head Clay Pot Angela’s Ashes • Frank McCourt 16 of Meatballs and Rice Vermicelli 23 Katherine Thomerson’s Irish 24 Brown Soda Bread Cane River • Lalita Tademy 58 25 Joan and Lalita’s Peach Cobbler 26 Angle of Repose • Wallace Stegner 22 Mexican Chocolate Torte Chocolat • Joanne Harris 65 27 Hot Cocoa 28 Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy 28 Chocolate Fondue 29 Wild Mushrooms on Toast The Coldest Winter Ever • Sister Souljah 71 30 Atonement • Ian McEwan 33 Stephanie Groves’s Spicy Buffalo Wings 31 Mary Kate Dillon’s Bread-and-Butter Blue-Cheese Dressing 32 Pudding Blue-Cheese Dipping Sauce S33 R34 3rd PASS PAGES 14974_00_i-xviii_r6mj.qxd 5/18/04 12:04 PM Page x 1 The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage 2 White Mother • James McBride 77 • Alfred Lansing 129 3 Dottie’s Famous Peanut Butter Pie Oatmeal Biscuits 4 Corelli’s Mandolin • Louis de Bernières 81 Fair and Tender Ladies • Lee Smith 133 5 Spanakopita Lee Smith’s Pimento Cheese 6 Patsy Hopkins’s Pimento Cheese The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 85 7 • Juli Rosenbaum’s Rosemary Spaghetti A Fine Balance • Rohinton Mistry 137 8 John Hornburg’s Death by Chocolate The Taal Restaurant’s Chicken Biryani 9 (Basmati Rice with Chicken) 10 Daughter of Fortune • Isabel Allende 91 Garam Masala Spiced Turkey Empanadas 11 Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of 12 The Devil Wears Prada Science, Faith, and Love • Dava Sobel 143 13 • Lauren Weisberger 95 Lemony Ricotta–Goat Cheese Cake 14 Sun-Dried Tomato and Goat Cheese Pizza 15 Getting Mother’s Body • Suzan-Lori Parks 149 The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Rhonda Haney’s Greens 16 Madness at the Fair That Changed America 17 Tracy Chevalier 153 • Erik Larson 99 Girl with a Pearl Earring • 18 Shaw’s Crab House Lobster Bisque Griet’s Vegetable Soup 19 Shaw’s Crab House Wild Turkey Manhattan The God of Small Things • Arundhati Roy 157 20 Amber Masud’s Aloo Tikki (Potato Cutlets) Disgrace • J. M. Coetzee 106 21 Sweet Potatoes with Green Chutney 22 Pearl S. Buck 162 23 The Dive from Clausen’s Pier • Ann Packer 110 The Good Earth • Scallion-Ginger Fried Rice 24 Sour Cherry Pie Basic Pie Crust 25 The Grapes of Wrath • John Steinbeck 167 One Main Street Café’s Artichoke- 26 Douglass’ Women • Jewell Parker Rhodes 115 Jalapeño Spread with 27 Banana Cream Pie Tomato Bruschetta Topping 28 The Emperor of Ocean Park 1 1 29 1 The Great Gatsby • F. Scott Fitzgerald 7 • Stephen L. Carter 20 Mint Julep 30 Crab Cakes with Spicy Remoulade Simple Syrup 31 32 Empire Falls • Richard Russo 125 Shrimp Flautas Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone 33S • J. K. Rowling 176 34R Treacle Tart X CONTENTS 3rd PASS PAGES 14974_00_i-xviii_r6mj.qxd 5/18/04 12:04 PM Page xi Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life 1 First 100 Years • Sarah Louise Delany • Queen Noor of Jordan 228 2 Her Majesty’s Mujadara (Lentils and Rice) and A. Elizabeth Delany 181 3 with Cucumber Yogurt Pound Cake with Fresh Coconut Frosting 4 Her Majesty’s Spinach Börek (Pastry) A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey 5 from the Inner City to the Ivy League A Lesson Before Dying • Ernest Gaines 235 6 Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock’s 1 7 • Ron Suskind 86 Old-Fashioned Tea Cakes Mama’s Popular Trial-and-Error 8 Homemade Baking Powder Potato Salad 9 Mama’s Delicious Spicy Fried Party Wings Life of Pi • Yann Martel 240 10 Tandoori Shrimp 11 The Hours • Michael Cunningham 192 12 Britta’s Crab Casserole Love in the Time of Cholera 13 1 • Gabriel García Márquez 245 House of Sand and Fog • Andre Dubus III 97 14 Khorest Bademjan (Eggplant and Tomato Mojitos Stew) with beef Mango, Jícama, and Corn Salad 15 16 Mama Day • Gloria Naylor 250 I Capture the Castle • Dodie Smith 201 17 Singapore Sling Peaches-and-Cream Pie with Streusel Topping 18 Interpreter of Maladies • Jhumpa Lahiri 204 19 Mrs. Lahiri’s Hard-Boiled-Egg Curry Memoirs of a Geisha • Arthur Golden 255 20 Teriyaki Beef Skewers in Mustard Sauce 21 Masala Art’s Mango Lassi Teriyaki Sauce 22 George Eliot 259 Jane Eyre • Charlotte Brontë 210 Middlemarch • 23 Apple Puffs Negus 24 Homemade Puff Pastry Walnut Tea Sandwiches 25 Jeffrey Eugenides 265 26 The Killer Angels • Michael Shaara 216 Middlesex • Civil War Cherry-Apple Cobbler with Elaine Ogden’s Greek Rice Pudding 27 Sweet Vanilla Custard Tzatziki 28 Eric Jerome Dickey 271 29 The Kite Runner • Khaled Hosseini 222 Milk in My Coffee • Britta’s Sabzi Challow (Spinach and Rice) Lemon Cheesecake 30 with Lamb 31 Motherless Brooklyn • Jonathan Lethem 275 Challow (Rice) Zaytoon’s Chicken Shwarma 32 S33 R34 CONTENTS XI 3rd PASS PAGES 14974_00_i-xviii_r6mj.qxd 5/18/04 12:04 PM Page xii 1 My Ántonia • Willa Cather 281 One Thousand White Women: The Journals of 2 Daniela Sever’s Favorite Spiced May Dodd • Jim Fergus 322 3 Plum Kolaches Indian Fry Bread 4 My Soul to Keep • Tananarive Due 286 The Optimist’s Daughter • Eudora Welty 327 5 Doro Wat (Chicken Stew) with Injera Southern Cheese Straws 6 (Flatbread) Palace Walk Naguib Mahfouz 330 7 Niter Kebbeh (Spiced Butter) • Berbere Paste Mrs.