Cook With Us
It’s a Pie Party!
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! On the next page, you’ll find stories from our most recent club gathering and a couple 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. For a chance to be featured on our accounts, share photos using these:
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Toni came in just as I was welcoming everyone to our first Cookbook Club potluck party. She ducked in with her pie in hand and admitted, as we all turned to her, that she almost hadn’t come because she was afraid her pie was too ugly. (It was not!) Luckily for us, her friend nudged her along, and she joined her 24 fellow Cookbookers as we gathered for the first time to share and eat.
And that’s just it… sharing and eating, tasting each other’s pies, discussing our failed test bakes and simply enjoying the company of people with a shared passion for food is what really brought us together.
With togetherness in mind, it felt particularly appropriate that we kicked off our series of member parties with recipes from Erin Jeanne McDowell’s The Book on Pie. Pie, of all foods, is about sharing. Something about dividing it up into well-portioned slices simply begs for others to gather round and claim their piece. And in the face of 25 beautiful savory and sweet pies, galettes, slabs and tarts, the idea that pie might also be used in analogies for scarcity—everyone wants a piece of the pie—seemed simply beside the point. Forget fighting over one pie… why not band together with friends to share many different dishes!
So here we were, at our first Cookbook Club party doing exactly that—coming together with a pie a piece to share good eats, to share our afternoon and to share a little bit about ourselves with newfound friends.
Now, we’re extending that circle to you. Cook with us!
Below are two of Erin’s recipes—one sweet, one savory—that were cooked for the party. Our recommendation? Bake some pie, and whatever it may look like, make sure to share it.
We’d also like to give a little shout out to Saratoga Tea & Honey Co., who generously provided some of their divine teas for our party. Whether you sip on a hot cup of their tea while you bake or pour yourself an afternoon cup to accompany your pie, their tea is sure to elevate your spirits.
