Cookbook Club: Xi'an Famous Foods

Love to eat? Love to cook? Join us for a monthly cookbook feast! Each month, the group picks recipes from a single book. Each participant chooses a recipe from the book and prepares it for the group's meeting. At our meeting, we eat the dishes we've all prepared and talk about what inspired us to make them.

In May, we're cooking from Xi'an Famous Foods by Jason Wang. The restaurant behind the cookbook took New York City by storm over the last two decades, growing from one shopfront to 16 present locations, and serving food from the city of Xian in central China, where many cuisines historically merged and were reinterpreted. The unique spices (peppercorns, cilantro, cumin, and chilis are all prominent) and textures of the cuisine are well worth an exploration, now possible at home (or in the library) with the help of this cookbook!

The Cookbook Club meets in the Community Room at the South Burlington Public Library on the first Tuesday of the month. Copies of the book will be available for browsing recipes at South Burlington Public Library for a month leading up to the meeting. To attend, let us know what you plan to cook by signing up at the Circulation Desk or by emailing sbplprograms@SouthBurlingtonVT.gov.