The nonprofit World Central Kitchen, which goes to the front lines of humanitarian crises to provide fresh meals, gets a little boost April 11 from a sale of used cookbooks in Cambridge. And so can home chefs looking for new ideas and a way to do a little good around the globe.
The sale is organized by Independent food writer Corky White, a food anthropologist at Boston University and resident of Cambridge since 1953 – where her home has accumulated a “huge stash” of cookbooks. (As many as 400, White estimated.)
“A week or two ago I started culling,” White said Monday. Her son and co-author on the 2023 “Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture,” Ben Wurgaft, suggested the culling go to a good cause: World Central Kitchen, founded in 2010 by chef José Andrés and now cooking in Gaza and other places where populations face catastrophic food insecurity.
Space for a sale was found quickly at Curio Spice, the importer and maker of spice blends founded in 2015 by Claire Cheney that recently added a bookshop. White decided to beef up her stock. “I found that everyone I know wants to divest of perfectly good cookbooks,” White said. The number of books for sale grew to more than 500 for the event.
“We have so many donors, now we need buyers,” White said.
The sale takes place from noon to 4 p.m., with all proceeds going to World Central Kitchen. For information, send email to diana@curiospice.com.
Curio Spice Co., 2265 Massachusetts Ave., North Cambridge
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