And in another bookstore book story, this week Arcadia Books, Spring Green, Wis., is publishing a cookbook, From the Kitchen at Arcadia Books, with recipes and reflections by Jacki Singleton and "the whole crew at the Kitchen." The store calls it "a great way to take a little bit of us home with you."
"We say we feed every part of you," Singleton, who runs the kitchen and developed most of the recipes in the book, told the Wisconsin State Journal. "We feed the intellect and the spirit with the books and feed the body with the food." Recipes include soups, potato salad, rhubarb bars and "the kitchen's popular curried chicken salad."
James Bohnen, who founded the store in 2011, told the Journal that he and Singleton had originally seen the kitchen as a "grab-and-go" operation, but people wanted to "grab and stay."
"When Jacki and I first talked about it, we had some ideas of what it might be and I think the response of the town took us completely by surprise, in a pleasant way," Bohnen told the paper. "She's done the thing I hoped she'd do, create variety with things people like and things people don’t know they like 'til they try them."
Bohnen is longtime director of the American Players Theatre, and Singleton is a Theatre stage manager.