Cook With Us-Family Style

The only thing more fulfilling than cooking itself is sharing what you’ve made. That is why Arthur’s Market—a historic café and grocery in Schenectady’s Stockade District—launched their Cookbook Club. Each season, the club gathers together for a potluck party, cooking and sharing dishes from four different cookbooks.

While the club membership is filled for the year, you, too, can cook with us! Below, you’ll find stories from our most recent club gathering and a couple of recipes that we found particularly delicious. Hopefully, you, too, will find joy in great food, learning in the kitchen and coming together with friends and family. Just don’t forget to invite your internet family to the table. Share photos with #ArthursCookbookClub, and tag @arthurs1795 and @ediblecapitaldistrict518 for a chance to be featured on our accounts.

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Sorella

Wow—what a finale to our first year of the Arthur’s Market Cookbook Club! This party, more than anything, captured the essence of community. It featured recipes from Emma Hearst’s cookbook Sorella and a stunning tablescape by Anne Brenner and her team at B. Inspired Home Goods. Bringing together both Emma and Anne, who are both local business owners, for this last event really underscored the way our Cookbook Club has gathered together people from our local area around a shared passion for food and entertaining. Emma owns Forts Ferry Farm in Latham (fortsferryfarm.com or @fortsferryfarm on Instagram), and Anne’s shop B. Inspired is located in the Upper Union district of Schenectady (binspiredlifestyle.com or @binspiredlifestyle on Instagram). Definitely go check them out!

A long, banquet-style table, set with many tall, glowing candles and a runner of birch branches, fall leaves and natural grasses, greeted our guests as they arrived. This gorgeous tablescape set the tone for our evening of celebration and matched the sophistication and sumptuous nature of Emma’s recipes. Sorella was perhaps the most technical book we cooked from this year, and while its genre—Northern Italian food—may have been familiar in flavors, its recipes did not shy away from professional techniques and specialty ingredients.

Both the beautiful decor and high-level cooking lent our party the air of something very special, and in that spirit, we all raised many a glass to toast our year of cooking and eating together, the friendships we formed and all of the ways in which our Cookbook Club has inspired us to continue expanding our skills and culinary horizons.

Here are two recipes from Sorella, which we would recommend for any special occasion or any ordinary occasion you might wish to make a little special. Cheers!