Girls love meat! Just ask the girls of the Meat Club. They lust for big steaks, succulent ribs, and juicy hamburgers. Meat satisfies their deepest desires and cravings, and besides - it just tastes so damn good! Tired of eating Caesar salads and poached chicken breasts at lunches, brunches, and dinners with the girls, Vanessa, Kristina, and Gemma knew there had to be something better. Over dinner one night, the three confessed that they each had a secret love of meat. The Meat Club started at that moment. They quickly established a simple set of rules to guide them: You have to be a girl, You have to eat meat, You have to love to talk about meat, What is said in the meat club stays in the meat club. The rest is history - over the past 4 years, they've cooked more great meals together than they ever thought possible. In addition to voraciously studying the different cuts of meat and the best techniques for cooking each one, they experimented with sauces, rubs, and marinades; they've shared recipes; researched other people's recipes; and, made up some of their own. The Meat Club became a haven for both culinary experimentation and a venue to learn about all the delicious possibilities of cooking with meat. "The Meat Club Cookbook" is a collection of 60 tried-and-true recipes culled from their best meals together. Most of these recipes come from their mothers.

Although cutesy vintage fabric trimmings illustrate the pages of this cookbook written by three young women, don't call it a girls' guide to meat because it's much more than a guidebook for women who need to cook for their meat-eating guys. Dina, Fuller and DePalma are carnivorous and proud of it, and give chicken Caesar salads and other chick-fare a run for their money with enthusiastic, in-depth information on beef, pork and lamb. The authors share advice on finding and building a relationship with a butcher, explain how to buy meat and unveil 60 classic recipes. Busty Burgers, Beef 'n' Beer Stew, Easy-Bake Spareribs, and Lamb Chops and Turnip Mash are just a sampling of the offerings; many recipes begin with anecdotes like Every summer, Kristina attends a family picnic or Vanessa's Korean aunt, Janette, is the inspiration for this dish. Indeed, there's a friendly feel to this work, which brims with kitsch. It looks like a 1950s sewing catalogue of sorts (cuts of beef, for example, are shown via a lovely image of a pink embroidered cow wearing green, ankle-tie pumps, divided into chuck, rib, short loin, etc.). A spiral binding adds to the book's utility. -Publishers Weekly