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. |
