EDIBLE BOOK TEA

Saturday, April 4, 2009
10:00 - 11:00 am

Edible Book Tea Leaves Visitors Devouring Books  

The books that lined the tables in the CAW Book Bindery on Saturday, April 4, 2009, were one-of-a-kind creations – hand crafted, finely assembled, and delicious. 

The vibrant display of edible books at the Sixth Annual Edible Book Tea were made of tasty ingredients including brownies, stone candy, gummy worms, coconut, marzipan, quiche, fondant, edible glitter, pumpernickel bread, thyme, and more.  Books included Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Marley and Me, Ten Little Ladybugs, as well poetry inspirations like The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, There once was a man from Nantucket, and more. 

Held in the Laura K. Lada-Mocarski Book Bindery, this annual event is organized by CAW Book Arts Department Head Paulette Rosen, in coordination with the International Edible Book Festival.  This year’s participants were Danielle Anliss, Cara Delucci, Amy Estabrook, Muffy German, Mary Herron, Beth Lyons, Barbara Morrisey, Ronel Namde, Elisabeth Peck, Cathy Reeve, Debra Roinestad, Sandy Rhodes, Marion Sachdeva, Donna Scialla-Fronte, Kate Simmons, Rhonda Swoope, Carol Turetsy, and Jessica Vulte.

What is an edible book?
It’s made of something you can eat and it looks like a book or makes reference to a book title or structure. For example:…Take thin slices of roast beef, stab bind them with scallions and you have a “Rare Book”…a tray of sugar coated Madeleine cookies titled Proust’s “Remembrance of Things Past”…Make a “book” or come see the show! It’s just a lot of fun!

Photographs of the books created by the 2008 participants are shown to the right. Their delicious creations incorporated chocolate, fruit leather, apricots, mint leaves, marzipan, peanut butter, matzah, and much more! As you scroll down, see if you can figure out the book title or book structure on which these works are based before reading the caption.

This event is conducted in coordination with the International Edible Book Festival. For more information and to see photos of past teas, see www.books2eat.com.

2009 Edible Books

Barbara Morrisey, “Thyme’s Winged Chariot” bases on the poem “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvel,Bread, thyme

Cathy Reeve, Jane Austen Book Club (sandwich), Bread, turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise

Mary Herron, Eat, Pray, Love,Chocolate cake, cream cheese icing, marzipan, currants, pasta

Kate Simmons, Marley and Me, Sugar cookie with red icing

Jessica Vulte, A Jello Raft in Blue Water (after A Yellow Raft in Blue Water), Jello

Danielle Anliss, The Ten Little Ladybugs, Yellow cake, white cake, jelly beans, gummy worms, coconut, food coloring

Muffy German, “Snow Haiku," gingerbread, powdered sugar

Ronel Namde, “House by the Side of the Road” a poem by Sam Walter Foss, quiche, broccoli, crackers

Elisabeth Peck, “There once was a man from Nantucket”, a limerick, white cake, fondant, food coloring

Donna Scialla-Fronte, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,brownies, blue icing, jelly beans, fruit leather

Ronel Namde, A Stack of Poetry Anthologies, Chocolate cake

Marion Sachdeva, “Sing a Song of Sixpence,” Cookie, licorice, candy coins, bread, honey, rye berries

Debra Roinestad, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” a poem by T.S. Elliot, Peach pie, framed original watercolor, placemat

Beth Lyons, “Halfway Down the Stairs” a poem by A.A. Milne, Ladyfingers, cinnamon stick, gumdrops, licorice whip

Beth Lyons, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, pumpernickel bread w/garden cream cheese, white bread w/cream cheese and jelly, banana bread w/peanut butter

Sandy Rhodes, “The Lanyard” a poem by Billy Collins, Licorice whips, fondant, stone candy, edible glitter

Rhonda Swoope & Cara Delucci, Twilight, cake, frosting, apple

Amy Estabrook, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, fruit, cake, candy, meat, lettuce, pie

Not pictured:

Carol Turetsy, “The Spider and the Fly” a poem, chocolate cake, frosting, pretzel