The Cook Book and Bosorne Books news

1. Open again!!!

The new roof looks fantastic.

All-weather team

The Scaffolding is dismantled ...

... to reveal our beautiful new roof and windows

From the Plen an Gwary

1. Cape Cornwall Street Christmas Fair

Christmas Fair 3rd December 2011

The brain child of our neighbours in the new and brilliant St Just Art and Crafts Gallery next door to the Cook Book, we look forward to welcoming you to our first Christmas Fair with a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie.

In The Cook Book we’ll have a number of stalls offering beautiful work by Bosorne Leatherwork, Helen Jay Pottery, Evocative Cornwall and others, as well as genuine book bargains and Julie Chapple’s scrumptious mini Christmas cakes and rum truffles.

Tea, coffee and cakes will also be on sale. Read the rest of this entry »

Stop Press

The Cook Book will be closing daily at 4.00pm from Monday 5th September.

1. This summer

A mixed bag of weather, with some brilliant days and others with cloud as thick as a bag and down to about 200 feet, which isn’t so good for people on holiday – St Just is over 300 feet above sea level. But it’s great for cafe-bookshops, so is rain and we’ve had several damp and dreary days outside, while inside there’s been a terrific atmosphere, lots of people, conversation flowing, laughter echoing and our lovely staff keeping the food and drinks flowing smoothly, at the same time there’s been a steady stream of people up and down the stairs for books. Read the rest of this entry »

Walking South from the Cook Book – what a wonderful place to live and work

Penanwell

Walking down to Cot Valley

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The Royal Wedding

It just has to be first!!

The Cook Book 'dressed overall'

We hadn’t really thought about Friday 29th until Bronwen Rowland asked us what we were doing to celebrate, about three days before the happy event. Unimpressed with, ‘Nothing,’ she then suggested that we host a ‘street party’ and set about organising people, food and drink, and told me in no uncertain terms to make sure that we had the bunting out … Read the rest of this entry »

1. Happy Birthday, Cook Book

It was in November 2002 that Philippa said, ‘Let’s run a book-café,’ and changed our lives dramatically.

We opened The Cook Book on Saturday 5th April 2003. Eight years on and we are still enjoying ourselves, still welcoming old friends, still meeting new ones. Many of our guests come back year after year. Many newcomers are surprised and delighted to find a café-bookshop in the most Westerly town in England.

A huge thank you, one and all, for your wonderful support over the years. Read the rest of this entry »

1. The Cook Book achieves the prestigious Gold CHEFS Award

Newsletter 2/11 has the press release from Cornwall Council. As you can imagine, we are absolutely delighted to have been given this award. It is very much a tribute to Becca Vosper’s management of the café and to her sourcing of local suppliers. We really appreciate all her hard work. Read the rest of this entry »

Cook Book in St Just is awarded prestigious Gold CHEFS Award

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1. The start of our ninth year

It’s good to be open again after a 10 day break with our Canadian family at the beginning of January, and then slogging hard to refit during the remaining three weeks.

We are, as always, delighted to see so many old friends back, to see The Cook Book full, hear the buzz of conversation, to answer queries about books, to know that it’s the start of another year, our ninth since we bought the place in January 2003. Read the rest of this entry »

1. Winter is here…..

Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;
The hare limp’d trembling through the frozen grass,
And silent was the flock in woolly fold
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