We’re just two weeks away from Seattle’s most fondant-astic, punny annual event: The Edible Book Festival. The Seattle Center for the Book Arts throws the event, now in its sixth year, at the chapel space in the Good Shepherd Center.
Here’s video from 2009’s Edible Book Festival, from KING-5, which gives you a good feel for the fest:
Want to enter your own creation this year? Register before March 30 by emailing edible@seattlebookarts.org. The Center offers some guidance to tap your creative juices:
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!
Get much more information on the Edible Book Festival site.
Here’s our story from last year, which includes photos of the winners. There are hundreds more pictures on Flickr.
