The Literacy Council of Alaska is partnering with Bread Line this week to change lives through literacy — specifically, through cookbooks. Not just any cookbooks. Renowned Fairbanks chef Jennifer Jolis just donated five shelves worth of vintage cookbooks she has collected over her lifetime.

They will be for sale at Forget-Me-Not Books, 2216 S. Cushman St. Thursday, July 18 through Saturday, July 20. One hundred percent of proceeds from the sale of those cookbooks will be donated to Bread Line to feed people and affirm lives. It’s a perfect partnership. Bread Line is an anti-hunger organization that has been serving the Fairbanks community since 1984.

“We depend on commUNITY donations and volunteers to meet our mission,” according to the website. Five shelves worth of cookbooks amounts to “boxes and boxes,” according to Heather Hill, executive director of Bread Line. ” “It’s an incredible collection,” she said. Jennifer Jolis was once executive director of the Bread Line.

She is well known and beloved in Fairbanks for her community work, including owning/operating two popular restaurants over the years — A Moveable Feast from 1984-1989 and Jennifer’s Restaurant from 1997-1999. “I have been buying/collecting cookbooks, receiving them as gifts, bringing them home from class for, oh let’s say, since the late ‘70s and ‘80s,” Jennifer Jolis said. “I happen to have included in the bunch, the first cookbook I ever bought, about which I remember only that they had a recipe for sliced bologna, grilled.

” A New York Times cookbook in the batch was a present from a close family friend when she got married in 1968. Favorite recipes are marked, with notes, from the friend. She kept some of her most cherished cookbooks. Her grandmother sent her a copy of “Julia Child, Vol. 1” when she worked as a VISTA volunteer in Chalkyitsik in 1966, but Jolis said she didn’t start using it until 1981.

“I can easily say this,” she noted. “Most of what I know I learned from that book. ” She also kept hold of “Entertaining Vol. 1, M. ” “It’s a dog-eared spine worn First Edition and not going anywhere,” she said. Cookbooks that will be for sale include: “First Editions of Jacques Pepin La Technique, La Methode.

Both valued at well over $150 online. m. Bread Line will also be there for several hours, offering some tasty treats to visitors/customers. “We are very lucky to have her in our corner, “ Hill said. ” Currently, Stone Soup Cafe serves about 150 hot meals and 160-175 sack lunches every weekday.

Hill also praised the profound generosity of the Literacy Council of Alaska for hosting the sale. According to Executive Director Lucie McGrath, other cookbooks from the bookstore inventory will also be for sale at regular pricing. Customers can also bring in a donation of shelf stable items or cases of bottled water or packs of socks, and receive a $5 Forget-Me-Not Books voucher.

“I love books,” Jolis said. “I love reading cookbooks. m. m. It’s also a chance to visit Forget-Me-Not Books, 2216 S. , the bookstore’s newest location.