The other Sunday night may have been one of San Francisco’s coldest. But inside Cookin’, the 45-year-old kitchenware store on Divisadero, it is warm — even if the woman behind the counter is not.
“Get out!” declares Judith Kaminsky, 80, the famously ornery owner. “No more people are allowed in until more people leave.” At 4-foot-something, she’s dwarfed by her grandfather’s antique gilded register but has outsize opinions about most things. When a twentysomething attempts to enter while holding a Starbucks Venti, she chastises: “No drinks allowed!” The phone rings, and she brusquely explains the store’s hours — “Noon to 6 as always, bye” — then hangs up without waiting for a reply.
A woman plops her purse beside a teetering stack of dessert plates. “Is it true?” she asks Kaminsky. “Are you really closing?”…