Book Club Snacks

In my experience, book club is basically an excuse to throw a low-maintenance themed girls night. The women in my group are impressive and kind and always thoughtfully read the book whatever the selection, so I don’t feel a ton of pressure to choose the perfect book. No, for me the real secret to book club is coming up with clever and delicious snacks. I’m pretty sure that’s the secret to any club. So I made a list of a dozen of my favorite book/snack combinations below!

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• The Blue Castle: A mix of berries, like you foraged everything from the great outdoors. And then cheese, obviously, always cheese. 
• David and Goliath: a fancy Mediterranean spread. 
• The Boys in the Boat: There's a German beer garden down the street that has amazing soft pretzels, but it sounds like you can also buy pretzel dough at the Costco cafe . 
• Quiet: She has an entire chapter about Harvard Business School, and so maybe I’d go with Boston cream pie because I love that stuff. 
• The Distant Land of my Father: Chinese takeout that you eat with chopsticks like they do on TV all the time, but people never do this in real life. 
• My Life in France: Pretty much any of the foods she talks about in her book except for the ground up animal organs. Do not serve that. 

Books and food pairings I actually used when it was my turn for a book selection

• Dandelion Wine: In this book dandelion wine is one of the rites of summer. So I choose Gravenstein apple cider since that is one of my rites of fall.
• Dad is Fat: Jim Gaffigan has this bit about kids snacks that are healthy in no way, but they’re “organic” so we somehow feel better. I went to Trader Joe’s and bought four kinds of organic kids crackers and cookies. 
• The Trouble With Poetry: Ideally, you’d serve coffee for this poetry reading, but since we don’t drink coffee I brought a bunch of other drinks you could get at a coffee shop 
• Upstairs at the White House: a small snacking spread including fruit gushers, since this book was written by the White House chief usher. 
• As You Wish OR The Princess Bride (which Chris and I read together and then had a date night in where we ate these snacks and watched The Princess Bride) Chips of insanity, mutton lettuce tomato sandwiches, bottle of wits (IBC root beer) chocolate cake balls shaped like a Miracle Max pill, and peanut (Princess) buttercups.