WoW!

Thanks everybody for making the 2009 Seattle Annual Edible Book Festival so fantastic.
Thank you especially -
All our fabulous volunteers
All the incredible Edible Book Artists
The Seattle Center for Book Arts
Caffe Vita
Molly Moon
Michael Lieberman
Jill Lightner
Nancy Guppy

The flickr pictures are up!

Watch the Evening Magazine video from April 28th

Video: Seattle Times came to the Festival!
Video: The Daily of the University of Washington
Good Egg
Read it and Eat in the Seattle Magazine
What's Cookin on Seattlest
Seattle Channel Art Zone in Studio
Ballard Blog

More later ... must rest now ... THANKS!
Janet

PS - If you missed the festival - get on our mailing list for the 2010 Edible Book Festival!

What is an Edible Book? Festival? Wha?

An Edible Book can look like a book, pun on a title, refer to a character, or just have something to do with books-- whatever the inspiration, it must be edible.
Think---> The Unbearable Lightness of Bean and Alice in Wonderbread and Catcher in the Rye and The Lovely Bones and Dictionary.

The festival works like this -

1. YOU come up with an Edible Book entry (or entries) and tell all your friends about it and then they'll want to make one too.
   
2. Register your name & contact info & Edible Book title with us - ASAP!
   
3. Noon to 1:00 pm, Saturday, April 4, 2009, bring your entry to the Good Shepherd Center , 4649 Sunnyside Ave North.
   
4. We will check you off the list, compliment you on your wit & creativity, arrange and photograph your entry (entries).
   
5. 1:00 to 2:00, many many people (other entrants and admirers) will admire them.
6. 2:00 to 2:30, Celebrity Judges will award prizes.
7. 2:30 to 3:30, we will ingest literary culture together (ie eat them).
   

• Admission is FREE with an entry.
  
• If you are coming without an entry, it's only a $10 donation .
  Come around 1:00 for best viewing and eating.
  
• Join our email list at frybooks at gmail dot com

Also - if you are interpreting a particular book - bring a copy of it and it will be displayed next to your masterpiece.

The International Edible Book Festival is a yearly event that takes place on or around April 1 throughout the world --- inviting bibliophiles, book artists and food lovers to celebrate the ingestion of culture and its fulfilling nourishment. It is in honor of the birthday of French gastronome Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), famous for his book Physiologie du goût, a witty meditation on food. Also known for saying "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are" used on Iron Chef.

The 2009 Seattle Edible Book Festival is a fundraiser for the fabulous Seattle Center for Book Arts. We'll have information about book arts and classes, and wonderful little things to buy and gorgeous donation pitchers for you to fill with love and dough (the monetary kind).

For edible book ideas & inspiration, see Seattle's past entries and visit the International Edible Book Festival.

Sweet Hellos

Two new Seattle Edible Book Festival organizers are helping Janet plan the festivities this year.

My name is Kate Lebo and yes, in this picture I'm eating a pickled egg. As you can probably surmise, it is not as delicious as an edible book. I am an incorrigible pie-maker and home cook and lover of zines and handmade books. The Edible Books Festival is a perfect pairing of books and food, the things I love most. I write a blog about local food called Good Egg and I write poetry, mostly on my lunch breaks. I'm also a board member for the Seattle Center for Book Arts and I work at Hugo House, Seattle's literary arts center. You can e-mail me at kate.lebo at gmail dot com.

This is my cohort Kelly Hilst:
Kelly first got involved with the Seattle Edible Books Festival in 2006 as a delighted reveler. The combination of books, visual puns, sugar, and more blue Jell-O than she'd ever seen in one location (in a particularly creative interpretation of the Dr. Seuss classic One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish) totally won her heart. Now she's hooked--she volunteered the following year, and she's happy to return to help organize the event in 2009.

She spends her days in the Membership office at KEXP, a nonprofit radio station, and her nights at home on Capitol Hill with her husband and fourteen tropical fish. If you're interested in volunteering at the 2009 Edible Books Festival, Kelly is your gal—just send her an email at frybooks at gmail dot com and she'll add you to our volunteer list!

And then, of course, there's Janet Fryberger:
Producer of The Seattle Edible Book Festival, creator of such crowd favorites as Alice in Wonderbread and Are You Bare Bun? It's me, Margarine! and Their Ryes were Noshing Gouda, lover of all things Book (pic above = inking a plate on a Gutenberg Press replica), punk shui interior designer, former bookstore owner, board member of Seattle Center for Book Arts, artists' books collector ... and ... right now ... job seeker...