You can venture to try any recipe, or just enjoy Popek’s findings as a time capsule from kitchens of generations gone by. Some are perfectly clear and complete, while others leave crucial elements-like cooking times and ingredient measurements-to the reader’s imagination. You’ll find classic Americana like pies and casseroles alongside ethnic mainstays such as Italian cookies, springerle, and German dumplings.
Handwritten Recipes is a treasury of Michael’s most fascinating found recipes. By night, he’s the voyeuristic force behind the websites ForgottenBookmarks and HandwrittenRecipes, where he shares the weird, wonderful objects he has found among the stacks at his store. What happens to these recipes when the books are passed on?īy day, Michael Popek works in his family’s used bookstore.
It could be a family secret finally divulged, a scribbled interpretation of something seen on TV, even a culinary experiment long since forgotten. Together this collection of lost treasures offers a glimpse into other readers' lives that they never intended for us to see.Leaf through your cookbooks, and you’re likely to find a bit of paper with a recipe written in a familiar (or not-so-familiar) hand. Sure, there are actual bookmarks, but there are also pictures and ticket stubs, old recipes and notes, valentines, unsent letters, four-leaf clovers, and various sordid, heartbreaking, and bizarre keepsakes. By night, he's the voyeuristic force behind where he shares the weird objects he has found among the stacks at his store.įorgotten Bookmarks is a scrapbook of Popek's most interesting finds. But what becomes of those forgotten bookmarks? What stories could they tell?īy day, Michael Popek works in his family's used bookstore. Eventually the book finds its way into the world-a library, a flea market, other people's bookshelves, or to a used bookstore. It could be a train ticket, a letter, an advertisement, a photograph, or a four-leaf clover. It's happened to all of us: we're reading a book, something interrupts us, and we grab the closest thing at hand to mark our spot.
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