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The Utah Cookbook Club offers a community for those who love...
Sweet, savory, raw or baked, they make it all.
Utah Cookbook Club's September meetup at Table X Courtesy Photo Every thrift store has a shelf of spiral-bound community cookbooks published by church congregations, junior leagues, community brass bands and other niche groups (even the Tabernacle Choir has one).
The recipes—“Jellied Cazpatcho,” anyone?—seem quaint. But so does the social connection. It’s hard for adults to make friends these days. And as Avani Patel found out, it can be even harder in Salt Lake. Patel moved here from Washington, D.C. about a decade ago with her husband, chef Mike Blocher, co-founder of Table X.
She says they’d…
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