Tue, Dec 15
|Book Society
Cookbook Lovers: Cookbooking — A Celebration of the Cookbook
Join us for a special Cookbook Lovers Club, where instead of one cookbook we're celebrating all of them! Kate Leahy leads a conversation with Bebe Carminito and Dianne Jacob around Debbie Berne's Cookbooking — plus wine, bites from recipes you send us, and a community cookbook to make and take home.
Time & Location
Dec 15, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Book Society, 2945 College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705, USA
About the event
Calling all cookbook enthusiasts, food lovers, and wine-curious home (or professional) chefs! Whether you love to cook, sip, or simply page through a beautifully crafted cookbook, the Cookbook Lovers Club is for you.
This special edition gathering will be the ultimate celebration: instead of one cookbook, we’re celebrating all of them!
Our centerpiece is Cookbooking: A Fan’s Guide, Debbie Berne’s joyful pop-history of the genre — a book about the books we splash, dog-ear, annotate in the margins, and hand down with the stains still on them. Debbie, who passed away last year, designed hundreds of cookbooks before she wrote her own, and this evening is a celebration of the genre she loved.
Kate Leahy, cookbook author and host of the Everything Cookbooks podcast, will lead a conversation with Bebe Black Carminito, author of The Curated Board, and Dianne Jacob, whose Will Write for Food is the standard guide to writing about…
Tickets
Book Society Members
Ticket rate for active Book Society Members only. One ticket per member. Additional guest tickets should be purchased at General Admission rate. Or tell your friends to join ! Learn more about how to become a member today at www.booksociety.social/membership
$30.00
+$0.75 ticket service fee
Member Ticket + Book
Book Society Members-Only Ticket + copy of Cookbooking - A Fan's Guide
$64.00
+$1.60 ticket service fee
General Admission
Non-member rate. Ticket only (book not included).
$45.00
+$1.13 ticket service fee
General Admission + Book
General Admission Ticket + Cookbooking - A Fan's Guide
$79.00
+$1.98 ticket service fee
Total
$0.00