cookbooks needed: Donate to Delicious New Chapters
October Wine Country Wildfires affected our community in innumerable ways. Each week, we discover a new bruise to be healed. And a place to work to step forward.
At a recent cooking class, Sondra Bernstein-founder of the girl & the fig - heard four Sonoma Valley residents talking about losing their homes and their cookbook collections. The kitchen, food and cooking are such an essential part of our days, hearts and homes here in Wine Country, it really struck home for Sondra, as she treasures her own cookbook collection and can’t imagine what it would be like if she were to have lost her own.
Sondra reached out to friends Kathleen Hill - Author and Culinary Historian and Laura Havlek - Owner of Sign of the Bear - to brainstorm how we as a community build “new-old” Cookbook Collections to give away. We’d love to do one thing for so many friends rebuilding different parts of their lives. And we’d love fire survivors to see Sonoma County’s love for them for decades as they browse recipes and share the joy of conversation and food with dear ones.
From now until April 4th, donations of Cookbooks in English or Spanish in VERY GOOD condition (please only gift books you’d be proud to give a close friend) may be dropped off at the following locations;
the girl & the fig
110 West Spain Street - Sonoma - any day before Noon
The Sign of the Bear
435 1st Street West, Sonoma - any day before Noon
The Rhône Room
20816 Broadway, Sonoma - Friday - Sunday - 12pm - 3pm
Sonoma Visitors Bureau
453 First Street East, Sonoma - any day - 9am - 5pm
Ramekins Cooking School
450 W Spain St, Sonoma, Tuesday - Saturday - 9am - 4pm
the girl & the fig CATERS!
21800 Schellville Road, Suite C - Sonoma - T-F, 10am - 2pm
TIPS Roadhouse
8445 Sonoma Highway, Kenwood - Daily 11:30 - 4pm
Sonoma Valley Museum of Art - Store
551 Broadway - Wed - Sun - 11-5
Healdsburg SHED
25 North Street - Healdsburg - Daily 8am-6pm
Cameron + Co.
145 Kentucky Street, Suite 7 - Petaluma - M-F 9 - 5:30 PM
Franchetti’s
1229 N. Dutton Road, Santa Rosa - Tues - Sun 10:30 am - 1:30 pm, Wed - Sat 5pm - 8pm
BOOKS can also be mailed to:
DELICIOUS NEW CHAPTERS
c/o the girl & the fig Business Office
1206 MacArthur Street #3, Sonoma, CA 95476
Visit www.deliciousnewchapters.org for updated locations and information.
On Sunday, April 8th, Fire Survivors in Wine Country will be welcomed at Suite D, to create a new collection for themselves. The event will run throughout the day starting at 9 am.
Fire Recovery is not a sprint, but a marathon. We hope our community’s efforts keep pushing out love for folks for years to come. We’d love to fill every kitchen with tangible reminders how grateful we are for the people who are the very best part of our Valley and region.
If you have a friend or know someone that will benefit by this, please pass this along!
