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| - i spent maybe two dozen or so quality minutes in this store, part of which was spent talking to the owner. its a real treat in general to be able to have that access to the creator of the business on a daily basis as opposed to sales staff that are not as knowledgeable or interested.
the store has its feet stewing in a few different areas. one way or another the owner claims, if pressed, that anything she carries can relate somehow back to food. She is an avid cookbook reader, collector and proprietor. i was debating getting this huge phaidon book of Ferran Adria (touted as the best chef in the world - whatever that means), as it was a mere 40 dollars. if you saw the book youd realize its a steal. but it was damn heavy and i had other places to go before i went home. that book sat adjacent to a video of anthony bourdain exploring the work of adria. those items sat amidst many other books on food, cookbooks and others alike.
for example, though the initial impulses for stock items stem from the inner workings of the kitchen they extend to include a wider breadth of creative ventures, like phaidons atlas of twenty-first century world architecture. or perhaps you are toiling away trying to finally set in stone your perfect or perhaps THE perfect recipe for chili, and you need to occupy your kid while you conjure, you might then pass off a cool little book like The Sweetest Fig or a classic like The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.
for your kitchen itself you are sure to find many utensils, fun polka-dotted plates, collapsable strainers, cool shot glasses and so on. i believe that the owner of good egg is herself a good egg and strives to bring to her customers intelligent, great quality and perhaps most of all fun items to help your living experience be that much sweeter.
look also on her website if you have any cool recipes as shes compiling a good egg cookbook, whose proceeds will go to oxfam.
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