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Sounds interesting I would love to be a part of this!

fyi theres already a bunch of clubs similar to this on meetup.com

@dfmny - is the club in chicago still around? my bro just moved there and he is feeling lonely and hungry.

Thanks for collecting e-mail responses avideater! Anyone who is interested be sure and email avideater@gmail.com. As far as the specifics, that I think can be discussed once we have formed a group. There is the posibility of the rotating underground restaurant, which is actually fine to throw out there here because no location is being disclosed, or just dinner parties or cooking club, ect. Basically, this is a shoutout to all my fellow food nerds in the NYC. Depending on our collective interests and culinary skill level (I am sure some who responded are more eaters than cookers!) we can create the kind of group we want.

Lets not let this idea die! Email avid and we will set something up asap!

I too might be interested in creating/eating/participating in an underground supper whatever.......

Nope, not just 7. At that point only 7 had responded. Feel free to send me an email at avideater@gmail.com and tell me a little about your food taste. The group is still developing and it would be neat to have people with different backgrounds. Look forward to hearing from you.

For years I went to Martha's Vineyard in August and entertained
using a cookbook I bought at a local bakery--Scottish Bakehouse
Cookbook by Isabella White. I used it until the pages came unglued
and put a rubberband around it. Julia inspired me to just use a
cookbook as a starting point and create your own style. Thanks, Elaine

The French Chef, of course! When we were married 38 years ago, my husband-to-be's next door neighbor gave us a Swing Way can opener and a copy of The French Chef. I have been using both all these years, but the French Chef has many more miles on it. I was 19, had never cooked and knew back then, in a very un-feminist way, that the way to a man's heart was through his stomach. It worked! I love this book and always will.

Urban Italian: Simple Recipes and True Stories from a Life in Food, by Andrew Carmellini. I'm a vegetarian, but there are still plenty of recipes for me to try. I repeatedly take it out of the library. Please, someone buy me this book for Christmas!

An autographed copy of Craig Claiborne’s New York Times Cookbook. One evening after a school dance, friends descended on my parent’s home and one of them piped up, “Where’s the eggs benedict?” I popped into the kitchen and shortly produced something resembling poached eggs with Hollandaise. (One egg never made it past the side of the stove.) From that first effort, I prepared several other winning recipes like Knockwurst in beer. Fast forward 15 years and dozens of other cookbooks and I am co-author of Passport to New York Restaurants and auction correspondent for Wine Spectator.

The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen by Grace Young. The dishes really tastes like the ones I had growing up.

The James Beard Cookbook ~ my very first cookbook from which I learned that there was more to cooking than my mother's standard operating procedure of putting a hunk of meat under the broiler, plopping frozen vegies into pots of boiling water, and pitching potatoes into the oven to bake.

Better Homes & Gardens New Cook Book, my mom used hers all the time and now that I'm away from home I use the one she bought for me! just the classics : )