3/8/02 Really, really hungry for literature
Every reader has devoured a favorite book at some point, but this, as they say,
is ridiculous. On April 1, attendees at the third annual International Edible
Book Festival will admire, bid on, and finally consume book-themed works of
digestible art. The worldwide festival, conceived by a group of artists in 1999,
will held at arts centers and restaurants in France, England, Germany, Australia
and Brazil along with a dozen U.S. cities. Last year's entries included molasses
cookie pages hand-bound with licorice and Japanese haiku printed on pastel marzipan
pastries. The goal of the festival, says co-founder Beatrice Coron, is "to
celebrate books and culture and to nourish ourselves at the same time."
Think you'd like your Hamlet in mustard inside an egg sandwich? Check festival
locations at www.geocities.com/books2eat.
Peter Frank: LA Weekly, 31 March - 6 April 2000
One of the best ways to Fool April is to attend the first International Edible
Books High/Low Tea. . Yep, you read right. Edible books. . As in, gnaw on a
novel, chomp on a chapbook, scarf science fiction, pack away poetry, munch on
a memoir, and as for autobiographies, well, you are what you eat. If you happen
to be anywhere on Foopril, the same sorta shindig will be exfoliatin' not only
in Los Angeles, but also in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, San Diego, Tucson,
Iowa City, Findlay (OH) as well as Australia, France and possibly, England and
Japan. (And if you're in none o' the above, many of the events will be documented
and put online post facto--or, if you would delecto--and ultimately published
by Umbrella Editions, co-sponsor of the cross-country oral gratification with
Colophon Page. Be there or go hungry--and fair warning: It's a high tea, so
at 4 p.m. local time, promptly, the edibooks that had been on view for the previous
two hours will be served up to all and sundry. You may get seconds, however,
if you come dressed as a silverfish.
They also spoke of us in:
TimeOut in New York City 2002, 2003
Print Magazine-july 2000 issue
Jalouse, Moscow, January 2004
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