Alison Fryer, manager of the Cookbook Store in Toronto until it closed last spring, "is cooking up a new chapter in her life" with the opening of a culinary book department in All the Best Fine Foods' Summerhill location, the Toronto Star reported.
Called All the Best Cookbooks, "it will echo Fryer's beloved Yorkville shop with visiting authors, cooking classes, food education, themed dinners--and plenty of cookery books," the Star wrote, adding that an "Alison's Picks" section "will carry more than 60 cookbooks, a number expected to expand." All the Best Fine Foods founder and cookbook author Jane Rodmell will also feature Jane's Classic Picks.
"I thought when we closed the store I'd casually fade away," Fryer said, adding: "My enthusiasm has not waned.... I think cookbooks are never going to go away. We all have to eat." She added that Rodmell and store co-owner Sue Merry also "love cookbooks. Jane has a collection that's just scary. She's my kind of woman.”