tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62543933473950076782023-06-20T06:15:07.953-07:00The Seattle Edible Book FestivalEat a Book Today!Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17614332833899782276noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6254393347395007678.post-16702233003023032442014-10-07T14:04:00.000-07:002014-10-07T15:00:36.229-07:00Oh my goodness! What an Incredible Edible we had!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>R.I.P. Eat a Book Today! The Seattle Edible Book Festival </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />AKA Cook the Books!</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2005 - 2012</b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Eat a Book Today!</b> combines the creative and culinary talents of NW bibliophiles, foodies, book artists, chefs, bakers, librarians, kids and punsters.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Register your Edible Entries by midnight March 31st by</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>emailing us<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (no need to register if you're not bringing an entry).</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Create and bring a piece o</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">f 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.</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></b><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br />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!</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the dope on the last Seattle Edible Book Festival 2012<br />1. Winners 2. Pictures 3. Thank You's and 4. The Edible Future</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. The 2012 Wieners:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most Pun-derful - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/6894374074/in/set-72157629362184490" target="_blank">Judge Benjamin Franklin</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gold - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/7040348737/in/set-72157629362184490" target="_blank">Drawing on the Right Side of the Brainna Cotta by Cindy Englehart</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silver - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/6894133566/in/set-72157629362184490" target="_blank">The World According to GORP by Debs Gardner</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bronze - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/7040223735/in/set-72157629362184490/" target="_blank">Quoth the Raison "Petit Four" by Kelley Frodel, Rauksie Beck, Bethany Stowell</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most Drop-dead Gorgeous - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/7040469141/in/set-72157629362184490/" target="_blank">Judge Noel Coward</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gold - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/6893971578/in/set-72157629362184490/" target="_blank">The Mad Hatter's Hat by Charlotte Gittleman</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silver -<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/6899629014/in/set-72157629362184490" target="_blank"> Le Petit(four) Prince by Krystel Anderson</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bronze - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/6893911418/in/set-72157629362184490/" target="_blank">The Pleasure of the Text by Janet Fryberger</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most Delectably Appetizing - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/6894365226/in/set-72157629362184490/" target="_blank">Judge Jacqueline Susann</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gold -<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/7040041933/in/set-72157629362184490/" target="_blank">LePieAthan by Lindi Wood</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silver - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/6897235894/in/set-72157629362184490" target="_blank">A Guernsey, Literary, Potato Pile Pie by Selene Fisher</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bronze - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/7040130493/in/set-72157629362184490/" target="_blank">Mix'd Weinies by puncontrollable (Margaret Prescott)</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Best Young Edible Artist (K-12) - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/7040265999/in/set-72157629362184490/" target="_blank">Judge Hermione Granger</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gold - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/7040509587/in/set-72157629362184490" target="_blank">Stew-Art Little by Marci Pliskin & Isabel, Hannah and Renee Russak</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silver - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/6894338318/in/set-72157629362184490/" target="_blank">On the Banks of Plum Creek<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> by Nancy and Elisabeth Bird and Kimberly Lippman</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bronze - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/6894063662/in/set-72157629362184490/" target="_blank">Finn Family Moominroll by Declan O'Neill</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Best in Show - selected by the hungry hordes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gold - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/6893915552/in/set-72157629362184490/" target="_blank">Of Mice and Pen by Sue Wilson-Schmitz</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silver - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/6894148912/in/set-72157629362184490/" target="_blank">The Girl with the Dragon Fondue by Suze Woolf</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bronze - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/7039985839/in/set-72157629362184490/" target="_blank">The Satanic Purses by Pamela Thompson</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Pictures are up on Flickr and still coming in - please go to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/sets/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plus some great press!!</span><br />
<a href="http://dailyuw.com/news/2012/apr/01/seattles-edible-book-festival/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">UW Daily</span></a><br />
<a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2017884820_ediblebooks01m.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seattle Times</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Thank you so much to our incredible volunteer manager Kelly Hilst and the 25+ marvelous volunteers - there is no Edible Book Festival without you!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, of course, all the unbelievably fabulous artists who entered their Edible Book. Every year, they blow me away!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The SCBA board, Caffe Vita, FUZE beverages and The Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs. Thank you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And a special Thank You to Jill Lightner, Kevin, Kitty, Cindy, Andree, Diane, Althea, Janet Salm - you have been there from the beginning and through to the (my) end. Franks!</span><br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/6894390634/in/set-72157629362184490" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the judges this year were stupendous: thank you Richard, G.Robin, Sarah and Carolyn</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks ever so much to the always beautiful, funny and game-for-anything -<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/7040484347/in/set-72157629362184490" target="_blank"> Edible Emcee Nancy Guppy</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. As you may have heard, SCBA will no longer be producing the Seattle Edible Book Festival.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the way - please note that this is not a copyrighted event; YOUR school or library or church/shul or reading group etc can host your own Edible Book Festival. It's done all over the world - <a href="http://www.books2eat.com/">http://www.books2eat.com/</a> - Jill and Janet started the Seattle festival (2005) just for fun and it is by no means exclusive. <a href="http://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/academic-resources/collins-memorial-library/edible-books/" target="_blank">Tacoma</a> does a great one, for example!So if you want to hold a smaller scale one for a weekday tea or something GO FOR IT! Edible Books are for everybody.</span>Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17614332833899782276noreply@blogger.com0