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Book Marks: Good Egg
Every Thursday, Torontoist Books is taking a look at another one of the city’s fine bookstores and reading series, in a feature we call Book Marks.
Photo by Erin Balser/Torontoist.
Good Egg is a cheery and diverse cookery and lifestyle store in the Kensington market. Julie Powell’s latest, Cleaving, sits front and center at the store, right next to Vegan Comfort Food and Nigel Slater’s Real Food Fast.
Open since late 2008, Good Egg was designed to serve what owner Mika Bareket felt was an area in need of a local bookstore. However, when This Ain’t the Rosedale Library announced their move to the area, Mika needed to rethink her general bookstore strategy. Hence, Good Egg. “I was certainly not going to compete with them,” she admitted. The competition challenged the lifelong book buyer’s concept and the result was a more focused store that moved beyond the book into the food and lifestyle community.