Read It And Eat A Cooking Centric Bookstore To Open In Lincoln Park

• Esther Dairiam
• The storefront that will become Read It and Eat

Back in 2012, Esther Dairiam took a culinary tour of France. There was food. There was wine. And there was Librairie Gourmande, a bookstore in Paris that stocked only books about food and cooking. Dairiam, a management consultant who doesn’t cook much but loves to eat, was charmed by the concept. She wondered if it would be possible to open a similar shop in Chicago.

Although her own favorite cookbook inspired her to go out and buy a paella pan (as yet unused), Dairiam won’t be selling kitchen equipment, at least not at first.