Cookbook Clubs Are a Tasty Way to Try New Recipes—and Make New Friends

For 20 years, two women have been trying new recipes from different cookbooks and making new friends while at it.

Bookseller Abby Sewell, far right, runs the monthly Cookbook Club at Riverstone Books in Squirrel Hill. Gretchen McKay/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS

By Gretchen McKay From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PITTSBURGH—Eager to make friends and try new things when she moved back to Pittsburgh after retiring 19 years ago, Jan Haltigan turned to what’s always been a welcoming space to connect: her local library.