If in your dreams tonight you have a last-minute inspiration to enter Saturday’s Edible Book Festival, don’t despair. The deadline has been extended till tomorrow night, event producer Janet Fryberger told us. The event, in the Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, has attracted more than one hundred pun-tastic, undoubtedly delicious creations that will feed the brains and the bellies of other participants and the browsing public alike.
Last year’s Best in Show winner. To see hundreds more photos,
go to the Edible Book Festival Flickr page.
Want to crate a literary culinary masterpiece? Here are the ground rules, from the Edible Book Festival page:
Register by April 9th [deadline was just extended] by emailing frybooks at gmail dot com then create and bring a piece of edible art related to books: it can pun on a title, refer to a scene or character, look like a book (or paper, scroll etc), or just have something to do with books. Whatever the inspiration – it must be edible.
Every type of book—children’s classics, detective novels, biographies, fiction and non, poetry, short stories —will be sculpted from a smörgåsbord of foodstuffs. Imagine The Brothers Karamatzah, S’more and Peace, Alice in Wonderbread, The Bun Also Rises, Goodnight Moon Pie, Curd Vonnegut… and so many more brainy, beautiful, silly, clever and tasty transubstantiations of books we love into treats we eat!
Edible-book creators should show up at the venue at 11 to set up. No book? No problem — $10 grants you admission to the event at noon, the right to exercise your vote for Best in Show (all votes must be cast by 1 p.m.), and the opportunity to devour the edibles at 2 p.m.
Get more info at frybooks.com.
