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EDIBLE BOOK TEA

Saturday, April 5, 2008
10:00 - 11:00 am

Ask anyone in the CAW Book Bindery on Saturday, April 5 if they had read any good books lately and you may get a stumble.  Ask them if they had eaten any and their answer would surely be yes!  At the Fifth Annual Edible Book Tea, visitors were able to sample creations inspired by their favorite books, with ingredients ranging from dark chocolate and marshmallow fluff to green beans and matzah. 

Books included A Wrinkle in Time, Heart of Darkness, The Three Little Pigs, and Le Petit Prince as well as topics like A Cheesy Romance Novel, Tea Leaves, National Gastronomic, and Candyland.  Held in the Laura K. Lada-Mocarski Book Bindery, this annual event is organized by co-chair of the Book Arts department Paulette Rosen, in coordination with the International Edible Book Festival. 

This year’s participants were Amy Estabrook, Paola Guevara, Haley Keanel, Susan Klein, Beth Lyons, Barbara Morrisey, Ronel Namde, Jessica Noe, Cathy Reeve, Sandy Rhodes, Paulette Rosen, Donna Scialla-Fronte, Kate Simmons, Jennifer Van Elswyk, Sally Vasey, Anna Zupo, and Ally and Lyndsay.

 

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.

2008 Edible Books


The Secret Life of Bees, Donna Scialla-Fronte


Tea Leaves, Paulette Rosen


Heart of Darkness, Kate Simmons


Le Petit Prince, Barbara Morrisey


National Gastronomic, Beth Lyons


A Wrinkle in Time, Sally Vasey


Farenheit 451, Sandy Rhodes


A Carrot for Two, Ronel Namde


Candyland, Anna Zupo and Jessica Noe


Hagaddah, Ally and Lyndsay


Holes, Jennifer Van Elswyk


The Three Little Pigs, Amy Estabrook


A Cheesy Romance Novel, Cathy Reeve


Life of Pi, Susan Klein


Green Eggs and Ham, Paola Guevara and Haley Keanel


Holes, Cathy Reeve


Jacob's Ladder, Amy Estabrook