START YOUR OVENS!

Cook the Books! The 5th Annual Seattle Edible Book Festival

A festival celebrating books and food and the people who love them.
Produced by the Seattle Center for Book Arts
Supported by a grant from the Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs

Saturday, April 10th, 2010, 12:00 - 3:00 pm (but don't bother coming after 1:45 cuz we eat all the books at 2:00!)
The Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave North, Seattle, WA

* Admission is free for those bringing entries and $10 for those without entries.

Cook the Books! combines the creative and culinary talents of NW bibliophiles, foodies, book artists, chefs, bakers, librarians, kids and punsters. Register before April 8th 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!

* REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED - THANK YOU - SEE YOU TOMORROW. We have 130 Edible Book Entries!
Bringing a book? come around 11:00.
Not bringing a book? Come at NOON - no later than 1:00 -  you won't have time to see them!


If you are interpreting a particular book, bring a copy of it to display alongside your masterpiece.
Yes, you can come without bringing an entry - it's only $10 and all the books you can eat, starting at 2:00.

Edible Schedule:

• 11:00 to 12:00 Edible Entries will be accepted, installed and photographed
• 12:00 to 1:30 public viewing and voting for Best in Show
• 1:30 Celebrity Judges award prizes
• 2:00 Edible Books will be eaten with tea, coffee and milk

Categories and Judges:

• Most Pun-derful     –       Susan Hildreth, City Librarian
• Most Drop-dead Gorgeous    –      Jay Friedman, Gastrolust & Seattlest.com
• Most Delectably Appetizing    –    Cynthia Lair, cookus INTERRUPTUS
• Best Young Edible Artist (K-12)    –    Mary Ann Gwinn, Seattle Times, Book Editor
• Best in Show – voted on by the hungry horde and presented by Edible MC Nancy Guppy

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Seattle Center for Book Arts (SCBA) promotes education in hand book binding and related art forms. We encourage fellowship and the exchange of ideas in the book arts community by providing educational, technical, and creative resources for individuals in the pursuit of book arts. SCBA fosters appreciation, understanding, and acceptance of the book as a contemporary art form and medium for self-expression. Our goal is to establish a facility specifically designed and equipped for bookmaking and all related art forms. Learn more about SCBA at www.seattlebookarts.org.

UPCOMING SCBA CLASSES

• Marbling and Miniature Bookbinding-Long Stitch over Tapes {Sat/Sun, February 13 and 14}
• 3 Books in 3+ Hours {Sunday, February 28}
• Business Cards, Calling Cards, and Cards for all Occasions:Letterpress Printing from  Photopolymer Plates {Sundays, February 28 and March 14}
• Historic Bindings Series {Sundays, March 7 - 28}
• Bookbinding I {Sundays, April 25 - May 23}