Are you a home cook who’s been searching for a copy of “Pigtails and Frog Legs: A Family Cookbook from Neiman Marcus”? Or what about “Harley and Davidson Family Recipes” or “101 Secrets of California Chefs”?
It just so happens that , whose , recently got a huge donation of that . Fans of physical media can expect to peruse some 5,000 titles, including ones from local chefs, rare and esoteric selections and historic tomes dating from World War II and earlier.
The Bookmark Bookstoresales go to support the Oakland Public Librarycookbooksit’ll be putting on the shelves March 15-16“We’re still digging through items that are on the older side,” says Erin Rivero, operations manager at The Bookmark. “For this first sale (there may be more in the future!), we’ve found titles dating back to the 1940s. We imagine there are even older items in the collection, and we’re excited to unearth those later in the spring and summer.”
The Bookmark Bookstore is located in downtown Oakland and, for three decades, has supported the Oakland Public Library with sales of donated books, comics, music and other media. Founded in 1992 by the Friends of the Oakland Public Library, which still runs it, the store is 95 percent volunteer-staffed and has donated over its lifetime more than $3 million to the public library.
The March sale spans many cuisines and specialties from culinary masters around the globe. “There are many, many niche and oddball titles for sale,” says Rivero.
