Kookbook Klub In Full Effect

Hi and welcome to Kookbook Klub! I am trying to figure out this blog thing so bear with me.

Our first Klub will meet May 4th and we will be doing this book:

The New Spanish Table by Anya Von Bremzen. Katy (me) is hosting. I first came upon this book when I was looking at a story about the best cookbooks of the year in Food & Wine magazine, which is my current favorite cooking mag. I wrote down the recipe they featured then promptly lost the piece of paper. When I bought the book I thought the recipe would jump out at me... but it didn't. I'm thinking it was the roquefort and pear risotto though, since I always dig new risotto recipes.

Here are the members of our club... that I know personally. We have some new people, and significant others that I don't know as much about but am really excited to meet!

Members:

Katy St. Clair: loves to cook and write, also digs guinea pigs and crossword puzzles. REALLY loves organized activities around food and friends and meeting new people, so is super excited bout Kookbook Klub.

Kitty Faria owns the bar Kitty's in Emeryville, shares her time between Brazil and the Bay Area. You may also know her from KALX or her many DJ gigs.

Shannon West has a Masters in psychotherapy and works at JFK University. She also plays softball but is surprisingly not a lesbian. Her boyfriend Tim is a bookseller at Pegasus and will also be joining us! He loves Scrabble, too.

Marta Berry used to work with Katy at the Express and they are old friends. Marta went to a fancy cooking school on the East Coast, cant remember what its called but its the big one. And she is a bonified pastry chef! She's probably tired of making dessert but hopefully she will throw down at least once.

Jennifer Maerz is the music editor at the SF Weekly. She rawks pretty hard and used to work at the Stranger, the best damn weekly in the country, IMHO. She also knows Dr. Drew Kapinksky or however you spell that, AND Dan Savage, so I'm sure she will be down to give us some sex tips. Just kidding. Her friend Chrissy is joining us too and I can't wait to meet her... She already owned the book I picked so Im thinkin she's pretty hardcore in the cooking department.

Tiffany Romain is getting her PhD at Stanford in medical Anthropology. She has a darling lil child and a great husband, both of which I am dying to meet at the first Kookbook Klub!

Jen Loy is a writer who you might known from her tenure at Mama Buzz Cafe and Kitchen Sink magazine. Her hubby will be joining us as well!

Frances Reade used to work with me at the Weekly. She is an amazing writer and probably an amazing cook. She is so creative that Im sure she is... her boyfriend Ben will be joining us as well too. He's a sweetie.

Michelle Turner is the best cook I know. By day she does PR for Bulldog Reporter, and at night she turns into the foremost expert on Dr. Phil trivia. She also writes for the Express, where she had her own food column for awhile. It is her dream to teach cooking classes to children. And then eat them.