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Join us for September Cookbook Club, when we'll be exploring the phenomenon that is Caroline Chambers! Writer of the #1 food and cooking Substack and New York Times bestselling cookbook author, Caro is known for creating recipes "with as few dishes, ingredients, and little fuss as possible."Guests are welcome to cook from either of Caroline's cookbooks, What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking (2024) or her new release, What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking: Make It Fast, or an old faithful "I guess I have to eat" dish from their own at-home repetoire. We'll gather in the basement hall at St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi Church to eat together and discuss weeknight cooking, the pressure vs. pleasure of producing meals for yourself and others, and navigating the effort-to-results ratio in the kitchen.Cookbook Club is an potluck event where everyone contributes a dish from the selected book. Here's how it works:1) You purchase your ticket(s) from this page, with or without a copy of the book.* (We highly encourage book sharing and use of libraries! You can also buy from Bookshop.org, which supports the shop and ships to your door.)*To include a book for shop pickup with your purchase, select the discounted "Ticket + Book" option. You can then add the book to your cart after clicking "Checkout." Books will be available for pickup at Binding Agents right away.2) One week before the event, we'll send out a Google Doc with a set number of slots per category by which the book is organized. Each person will claim a slot with the recipe of their choice. This ensures a good spread and a cross-section of all the book has to offer.3) On event day, you'll bring your dish to the venue, prepared to feast. We'll talk about our experience cooking and eating from the book, and leave with lots of great tips and new friends.Space is limited! If the event sells out, please add yourself to the waitlist. You'll be the first to know if spots become available. To receive updates about future Cookbook Clubs (hosted monthly)—make sure you're on our mailing list.About Cooking the BorderlandsCaroline Chambers is a bestselling author and wildly popular Substack recipe developer who famously doesn’t feel like cooking—and she’s built a whole brand on that premise. Her superpowers are eliminating unnecessary steps; minimizing dirty dishes; and making dinnertime as simple, stress-free, and fun as possible. While plenty of obstacles stand between you and a delicious meal, being short on time is probably the biggest one. This exciting follow-up cookbook is once again organized into three time-based chapters. You’ll find recipes for 100 dinners, all of which are complete meals and can be made with no more than 30 minutes hands-on time in the kitchen—and yes, that includes chopping, marinating, and all other prep!Every quick and easy recipe features Caro’s signature swaps, riffs, tips, and shortcuts to empower you to make these recipes work for you—not the other way around!You’ll also find special treasures throughout the book, including anchor recipes you can spin into five different dishes, such as Smoky Black Beans, and formula sidebars like Fried Rice Is Always Nice (and Other Grains, Too) so you can DIY your favorites.Plus, helpful back-of-book indexes allow you to search by both ingredient—useful when, say, you’ve got ground meat in the freezer—and occasion or mood—like when you cannot be bothered to chop a single thing.ABOUT THE AUTHORCAROLINE CHAMBERS grew up in the kitchen on her mom’s hip, learning how to cook in their Winston-Salem, North Carolina, home. With experience as a chef, caterer, and freelance recipe developer for a host of publications and brands, she published her first cookbook in 2018, Just Married. In 2020—at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic—Caro began sharing her recipes and connecting with home cooks on Instagram (@carochambers), and launched her newsletter, What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking, which flew to the top of the Substack charts. Her next cookbook, bearing the same title, was published in 2024 and was an instant New York Times bestseller. Caro lives in Carmel Valley, California, with her husband, George, and their four sons, Mattis, Calum, Cashel, and Tavish—one of whom can almost always be found in the kitchen on her hip.