For Savvy Shoppers, Omnivore's a Source of Pastured Eggs from West Marin

Tamara Palmer

​Omnivore Books carries fresh tomes on food, but it's less known that the shop also carries fresh, free-range eggs from a neighbor of bookstore proprietor Celia Sack who owns a small family farm in Tomales Bay. The eggs come from a variety of breeds.

Sack told SFoodie she estimates having sold 1,000 dozen eggs out of the store in the past year (at a cost of $8/dozen and $4/half-dozen, no less), and has convinced restaurants such as Contigo, SPQR, and Woodward's Garden to use them in their creations. Sack typically brings 14 or 15 dozen to the store on Tuesdays. They sell fast ― some regulars buy up to five dozen at a time.

They probably taste a little bit better to us, knowing a smidgen of the back story, but these mighty fine eggs are a great impulse buy on top of those cookbooks and food memoirs.

Omnivore Books 3885a Cesar Chavez (at Church), 282-4712