What should I serve at my book club?

[Anonymous]

Sounds like great food, OP!

But I'm not American. Clearly all the Bland Food People have found your thread...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am hosting a new book club this weekend and the crowd consists of many top-tier cooks. The point is the book, of course, but I also want to provide delicious snacks (each guest is bringing a drink). Ten people are coming.

On my menu:

Anchovies and sardines on toast points
Crabmeat dip in a Frito bowl
Grape, goat cheese, and walnut cups
Bone broth shooters
Lamb meatballs in brandy cherry sauce, served with toothpicks
Homemade chocolate chip cookies

I'd theme it towards the book. That said, the only thing I'd eat is the chocolate chip cookies. Do you hate these people?

[Anonymous]

9/10 bravo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I revised my menu.

Keeping the bone broth shooters, anchovies, and dip. Adding in hummus with vegetables.

The book is "The Silent Patient."

A little off course, but I hated that book. I truly do not get the fascination with it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am hosting a new book club this weekend and the crowd consists of many top-tier cooks. The point is the book, of course, but I also want to provide delicious snacks (each guest is bringing a drink). Ten people are coming.

On my menu:

Anchovies and sardines on toast points
Crabmeat dip in a Frito bowl
Grape, goat cheese, and walnut cups
Bone broth shooters
Lamb meatballs in brandy cherry sauce, served with toothpicks
Homemade chocolate chip cookies

I'd theme it towards the book. That said, the only thing I'd eat is the chocolate chip cookies. Do you hate these people?

She did theme it towards the book. There will be awkward silence when everyone sees the food. Then everyone will be patient til the end when they get get out of there and get some real food on the way home.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't serve an oily fish on toast as a finger food to accompany a book club because it'd be too easy to transfer the oil from your fingers to the book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look I'm a hippie who will eat chia seeds and bone broth on my own time, but yes this is a super weird menu for book club.

You enjoy chia seeds and bone broth alone. But you can't enjoy them with company, in the presence of a book, assuming your company shares your food interests? That doesn't make any sense.

If your book club friends enjoy something, maybe consider serving what they enjoy. This assumes you know what your friends enjoy and prefer, which is a prerequisite for hosting an event involving food.

Because eating health food at home is different from eating/serving health food at parties, obviously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look I'm a hippie who will eat chia seeds and bone broth on my own time, but yes this is a super weird menu for book club.

You enjoy chia seeds and bone broth alone. But you can't enjoy them with company, in the presence of a book, assuming your company shares your food interests? That doesn't make any sense.

If your book club friends enjoy something, maybe consider serving what they enjoy. This assumes you know what your friends enjoy and prefer, which is a prerequisite for hosting an event involving food.

Because eating health food at home is different from eating/serving health food at parties, obviously.

Not obvious. If your guests prefer bone broth at the book club gathering, then serve bone broth at the book club gathering. Granted if your guests are regularly eating bone broth and would prefer not-bone broth, the it's obvious to serve not-bone broth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Disgusting, I would never come back.

+1

[Anonymous]

Cheeses, fruits, nuts
Cucumber sandwiches or Spanakopita
Spiced egg sandwiches or devilled eggs
Chicken in puff pastry or pigs in blanket
Potato samosas

[Anonymous]

I hope you took video

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This cannot be real.

I was sure that OP’s post was tongue in cheek, but 3 pages of people have responded so maybe my book club is very pedestrian.