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Omnivore Books

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4 years

We're always scrambling to get more of our New Books inventory online! Here's what we've got so far:

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2 years

A gorgeous graphic from a 1940 Sunkist booklet.

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A woman who owned this cookbook in 1903 wrote this note on the front flyleaf. I was very moved and thought you’d all like to see it, too.

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My new shop window, courtesy of our president.

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The most San Francisco thing I’ve ever seen: A naked man strolling the Castro with a mask on.

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I rarely talk to the Asian owner of a day spa across the street from my shop, but today I went in and reintroduced myself. I told her what happened yesterday was really scary, and if she or her employees or customers EVER feel threatened, to come right over to us. She cried!

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@BroadhurstBooks @secondshelfbks Whenever that happens here, I tell my customer that their book has been waiting for them a very long time.

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@mslopatto @hooleil I am in complete admiration of those children.

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I appreciate that my first customer, at 10:50 a.m., was a mother with a baby in a stroller, buying a book on distilling gin at home.

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In happier news, our store did so well this year, I was finally able to start covering my manager Sarah's health care. Thanks, everyone, for not supporting Amazon! It has real life consequences.

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3 years

Off to the heavens…we will miss you so much down here, Jolene. 2008-2021 was a great run.

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I'm printing out all the online orders from this weekend, and am tearfully joyous. I thought I'd be paying my employees out of my own savings by now, but you all are making it possible to keep paying them through the business. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. I won't forget it.

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@dog_rates When we adopted our dog from a crowded shelter in NM, she seemed to love the QUIET. She lay between us on the bed, on her back, and just looked from one of us to the other into she fell into a deep sleep.

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This is my absolute favorite children's cookbook. It imagines an apartment building with immigrants from all over the world, each cooking a different national dish. Check out the images on my website:

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@costareports @AOC In other words, he thinks she’s hot.

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4 years

Twitter was made for this. Harold McGee & Samin Nosrat signing their books at Omnivore today.

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@jfreewright @goldengateblond @atrupar @SenTomCotton Equally offensive is the assumption they don’t teach Shakespeare in Asia.

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3 years

What happens in Albuquerque doesn’t always stay in Albuquerque; this sweet girl is coming home with us!! Busted her out of a shelter and renting a car to drive back to San Francisco. Welcome to the good life, Pip!

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5 years

Now this is the way to spend President's Day.

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2 years

San Francisco, you break my heart.

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5 years

Dying. This is why I own a fucking bookstore.

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3 years

A guy called the shop today to shyly ask if his not-tech-savvy aunt’s pre-order went through for his book coming out in spring. It hadn’t, but I asked if he was sure we had his book listed already - “what’s your last name?” He said, “B-a-r-a-g-h-a-n-i.”

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6 years

Oh my God. Things we never knew, or even thought about:

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4 years

Today is the 12th anniversary of my shop opening! Here's the first photo I ever took in there:

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7 years

Tear-jerker of the day:

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@BarackObama made a surprise visit to McKinley Tech HS here in DC to welcome back students as they start a new school year.

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6 years

I have some great news about my bookshop! Omnivore made $60,000 more on new cookbooks (as opposed to vintage) in 2018 than 2017. Yay - books are here to stay!

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6 years

When you're celebrating your 23rd anniversary and you gift each other the same exact BLEND of whisky. And your neighbor hears you screeching with laughter.

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2 years

Today was the day I finally scored a first edition of The Joy of Cooking. Privately printed by Irma Rombauer in 1931, she had just 3,000 copies made, so it’s extremely rare (especially in this condition). Soon to be on our website, but too excited not to say something!

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5 years

@katierogers Oh, my God. I feel like it should be signed, "Dr. Evil."

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4 years

This is remarkable - like a scene from an opera. Definitely sound on.

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Firefighters from American Samoa sing as they march down a mountain in California. Filmed at Shasta-Trinity National Park in 2017.

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7 years

Here's my new cookbook window. Enjoy.

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5 years

@JStein_WaPo That is some kinky shit right there.

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My post office receipt from ONE DAY’S worth of orders! I want to thank each and every one of you for keeping Omnivore in business.

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I pay $22/hr. + vacation time & all holidays, and let her work a contract job online while at my shop. I offer full health care benefits. I keep excellent whiskey & mezcal in the back for both of us in times of need. I installed a ceiling fan.

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2 years

It’s finally happened: we made a Free Cookbook Library outside the shop! Come donate or take cookbooks any time!!

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6 years

It's rough having Amazon charge less for some cookbooks than I buy them for wholesale. All I can really say is, thank you to those who support me, authors & publishers by paying cover price, & I understand that some of you just can't afford to. I get it.

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I'm cataloging an incredible cookbook collection for an auction house, and got my first peek at Rufus Estes' 1911 Good Things to Eat, the first cookbook by an African American chef. Wow.

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I wasn't expecting her to feel so moved - this felt like literally the least I could do. Well, let's all do it. Tell an Asian/Pacific Islander neighbor, shop owner, mailman: I am here for you if you need me. I have your back. I value your presence. Turns out it means a lot.

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@dansaltzstein When I was 19 and had an internship at Christie’s, and workmen unloaded Robert Mapplethorpe’s entire apartment into a preview room, and I was left alone in there playing his pinball machine. Surreal.

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4 years

My favorite pantry meal: spaghetti with anchovies, chili flakes, a lot of garlic, and olive oil. Simple perfection

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Author ⁦ @CiaoSamin ⁩ signing books this evening at the shop!

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Me, nearly 50 years ago, surrounded by the love of parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. Feeling lucky on my 50th birthday today.

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2 years

I'm sorry to pinch my American publisher friends, but the difference between the UK and US covers on this upcoming cookbook is simply egregious.

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4 years

Can I just express the frustration that I've been talking about writing a cooking-from-your-pantry cookbook for a year, and no editor thought it was a good idea.

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3 years

First meal with my dad in a YEAR. Thank God for today.

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@kumailn I want to be bored shitless with any article about our administration. I want to find Washington Week as dull and mind-numbing as I did at 14. I want the PBS NewsHour to be something I catch once in a blue moon because there’s so little to report.

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Good News! We just got word from our governor that we can open our bookshop for curbside service on Friday! Come say hi, crane your neck into the shop, and tell us what you'd like - we'll be there 11-3.

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5 years

Beto was the only one who defined resilience through someone else’s example, not his own.

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7 years

@alivitali This sounds EXACTLY like Trump's voice, wording, all-caps, syntax.

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4 years

Two days’ worth of online orders going out (yes, the entire truck).

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3 years

A new customer in Ohio wrote to me today that her sister was so happy with the books I’d chosen for her as gifts, she would like to have me send her one cookbook a month of my choosing. This is the best job ever!

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3 years

A crazy delicious dish at José Andres’ new restaurant, Spanish Diner: fried eggs, jamon iberico & French fries underneath. The poutine of Spain!

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6 years

Preview of the Chuck Williams collection at the CIA Copia. This is just the jelly mould wall.

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I usually can't remember anniversaries since we had to get married so many times. But today marks 14 years since @GavinNewsom opened the doors of City Hall for us to marry in the rotunda, surrounded by flowers sent from strangers around the world.

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6 years

The time Jonathan spent hours perusing, gossiping, laughing, critiquing in my shop with me, and no one else came in the whole time, was something I'll always cherish.

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You guys. A really heartwarming thing happened. A Twitter friend I've never met, @GuilbaultRenee , has agreed to have her company sponsor a replacement Free Cookbook Library for our vandalized one. Can I get a hallelujah?! Sometimes, people are good and restore your faith.

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4 years

Unpopular take: I never use unsalted butter. Even when I’m told to. And no one can taste the difference.

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3 years

OMG, my shop finally made its name in to The New Yorker! Thanks for including us in your fantastic holiday gift guide, @hels ! I'm in great company.

Give Your Loved One an Oyster I.O.U.: A Food-Themed Holiday Gift Guide

A list of perfect presents for anyone who cooks or eats—in other words, a list of perfect presents for everyone.

www.newyorker.com

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6 years

I'm cataloging a scarce African American cookbook from 1929 (The Lone Star Cookbook by A. Fillmore, chef of the Lubbock Hotel). He rubberstamped this in the back of each copy.

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9 months

Okay fine. I failed at quitting Twitter. I had a customer beg me to stay on here, and I melted like cheap chocolate. Here’s an awesome 1912 menu from an iconic SF restaurant just in:

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5 years

Centerfold of a 1912 Jell-O booklet!

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5 years

Buster Keaton’s chop suey, 1931.

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1 year

It’s official: Paula and I are the worst bakers ever. This is our attempt at shortbread cookies using an embossed rolling pin. This is not a test batch. And we’re not even stoned.

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My dad just sent me this photo of himself from an Alaskan cruise, and I can’t believe how handsome he still is at 85.

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1 year

A girl around 13 just came in with her dad for a birthday present, and mentioned loving Max Miller. I said, "Dude! We have his new @TastingHistory1 cookbook right here." She literally started dancing up and down with excitement. Folks, the kids are all right.

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3 years

The dogless silence is torture.

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2 years

Today, our mural will be finished! Is anyone as excited as I am?!

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4 years

Here's a sad commentary: A man just walked by the shop speaking Italian into his phone, so I closed my eyes for 30 seconds and pretended I was in Venice and that was my big trip for this year.

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When you buy an early copy of The Taste of Country Cooking on eBay and the buyer warns there “may be some writing inside.” Surprises like this are what I live for.

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3 months

@davidfrum Or, joined in protest against a war, like so many students before them. (And yes, I'm Jewish and if I was still in college, would protest Israel's treatment of Gazans, which is not at all the same as being pro-Hamas).

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3 years

Why I love my shop: A man just picked up a book called "The Book of Difficult Fruit" and said to his boyfriend, "Look, a book about me!"

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1 year

This couple has been in here over an hour, and as they talk about favorite recipes and dishes, I can see they’re falling deeply in love with one another, and each giggle and furtive glance is quietly thrilling me.

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Welp, I found an alternate reason to get into a hospital in the middle of a pandemic. Broke my ankle in three places leaving the post office, damn it. Surgery tomorrow - wish me luck! (Sarah is at the shop shipping orders for the foreseeable future).

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Per city orders, Omnivore will be closed until at least April 7 (though I’m happy to fill any online orders). I plan to pay my manager, Sarah, her full salary during this time.

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3 years

Our first event. This feels like a miracle.

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My dad (85) collects blue & white transferware. I couldn't stand seeing him in a raggedy cheap medical mask, so surprised him with this today. To say he was thrilled is an understatement.

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This article by Amanda Shapiro about Samin Nosrat made me tear up - I am so proud of Samin for rising up, and reaching down to bring up so many unsung food folks. She is one of the most generous people I know.

Everybody Loves Samin

If you’ve cooked from the Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat cookbook or watched the show, you love Samin Nosrat. In fact, so many people do, she went to hide out in the desert. That didn’t stop us from tracking...

www.bonappetit.com

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6 years

It's amazing to me that more retail businesses haven't figured out how to challenge Amazon. Make your store a destination, offer in-store events etc. that demand a physical presence, carry unique products & imports. I love it; it's like a game for me.

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"Next year will be a choppier, more challenging year for retail than 2018 was." Agreed @sarahhalzack

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3 years

Book find of the day:

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@yashar @kittenwithawhip This is the first time in my life I've thought we are vastly UNDER-estimating the affect this will have on our economy.

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Caller just now: “Do you have an exercise section?” Me: “No, we’re all cookbooks.” Him: “Oh, I didn’t know that. Do you have a pizza section?”

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@davidmackau @wendymac They are the antithesis of the ugliness we see around us this year, and deserve to be hailed for their heroism by all of us.

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Oh, just Harold McGee and Rose Levy Beranbaum catching up in the shop.

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4 years

When life gives you lemons, make more face masks. Here's the pattern I just ordered to sell at the shop (will be here in a few weeks).

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4 years

So we closed early

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7 years

Sometimes, I can't believe I made this place.

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2 years

My dad’s 1960’s heated tray next to his landline.

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5 years

Legendary barbecue king Rodney Scott is IN MY STORE!! This is very exciting.

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4 years

A fabulous 1984 London menu illustrated by David Hockney just in!

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There are some very upsetting closures starting to pile up, but I think dim sum palace Ton Kiang has hit me the hardest. We’ve spent every Christmas morning there for 20 years - a nostalgic tradition I always savored.

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Oh man, I am so in love with this dog.

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3 years

Customer of the Day: Morgan!

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@Alyssa_Milano I didn’t get video, but every person on our block in the Castro was screaming out their window, “You’re fired!” What a wonderful noise to wake up to.

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’m out of my mind with excitement! Who else could say the future Vice President once bought a litter box from my pet shop?

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3 years

Just buying a small collection here of rare Mexican, California, and food writing books. Not excited at all.

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A customer asked me a great question: what vintage cookbook should they look out for at thrift stores? Answer: The Amy Vanderbilt Cookbook, published in 1962 and illustrated by a young artist by the name of Andrew Warhol.

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I told Paula she should make a winter camping window at our pet store, so she did:

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@spoilers4tv @juliareinstein As a teen, I could turn my radio to the end of the dial and hear the boy next door (1 year older) on every single cordless phone call. It was HEAVEN - I still get a shot of adrenaline when I hear a phone like that ring.

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My new employee just began her sentence, "When I was Anna Wintour's assistant..." OMG, THIS IS GONNA BE GOOD

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