cooking the book

Our local bookshop combines books and food, you can have lunches or coffee in the bookshop itself among the books. The cook is a friend of ours who had the brilliant idea to invite people over for dinner. She is 'cooking the book'. Whenever she finds a cookbook that interest her, she starts cooking from it.  Once in a month she selects one book for that. This time it was out of 'Spuntino', a culinair adventure through the streets of New York.