"There are those who write cookbooks, and those who sell them," CBC News reported, noting that Gail Norton, owner of the the Cookbook Company Cooks in Calgary, "does both, and teaches on the side."
Norton recalled that after graduating from the University of Calgary with a degree in special education, she "went on a road trip across Canada, and saw the Cookbook Store in Toronto. I felt like there was electricity pulsing through my fingertips. So I came back and didn't get a teaching job. Again, ignorance was bliss--I got together with my mom, who has great attention to detail and the memory of 10 elephants, which helps when it comes to book titles and authors. We made up our own index card system, and off we went."
The Cookbook Company opened in 1984, and in 1996 moved to the current location of the Cookbook Company Cooks on 11th Avenue, where they also added a cooking school. Nine years ago, they "opened a new, larger, sunnier space upstairs, where they host even more classes, community and corporate events and cookbook launches," CBC News wrote.
