Meet Artist Gary Handman

Sometime in the summer of 2013, a large envelope arrived at the Edible East Bay mailbox. Inside were three items, all hand-painted on watercolor paper…

Gary wanted us to know about some of under-the radar places in Richmond, Berkeley, and Oakland where he and his wife, Pam, like to eat and shop.

 

 

 

 

Thus began many beautiful years of collaboration:

Winter Holidays 2013—Kip Mesirow, carpenter who built Chez Panisse

Fall Harvest 2014— Kitchen Sentimental: Gary’s favorite kitchen gadgets

Fall Harvest 2015— Who Invented the Martini? and Bibulous by the Bay

Winter Holidays 2016—East Bay Cassoulet

Winter Holidays 2017—Automatic Device for Selecting a Restaurant

Winter Holidays 2019—Gary Handman’s Culinary Notebooks

Summer 2020—Farmers’ Markets Are an Essential Service

Spring 2020—Meet the Harvest Made Market Cart

 

Gary Handman is an occasional freelance illustrator and cartoonist whose work has appeared in a strangely diverse gaggle of books and journals. In a former (pre-retirement) life he daylighted as the film and video librarian of the UC Berkeley library. He has lived in Berkeley with his wife, Pam, for ages. You can reach Gary at handman(at)berkeley.edu.