Cookbook Club August 2026: Taste Makers
From Every Shore: Our Immigrant Roots
This summer marks 250 years of the United States. Our three books honor that anniversary through the food immigrants brought with them, adapted, and made American—guided by Chef Annette Tomei, culinary instructor and food historian, whose research centers on the immigrant foodways of New York City and the Lower East Side in particular.
If you can't sign up for the whole Summer 2026 season, we invite you to join the club for one month as everyone enjoys Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America by Mayukh Sen.
Meets on Zoom, Tuesdays, August 11 & 25, 7:00–8:30 pm ET.
August is our traditional month of cooking what you like while reading something provocative. James Beard Award–winning writer Mayukh Sen profiles seven immigrant women—among them Marcella Hazan, Julie Sahni, and Najmieh Batmanglij—who reshaped how Americans eat, often without receiving the credit they were due.
Conjuring the places they left behind, as well as the America to which they came, he captures their personalities, their ambitions, the forces which resisted them, and the importance of what they have added to American culture. As outsiders, they rarely faced an easy path, but their persistence made them invaluable.
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