The Seattle Edible Book Festival

2011-12-27T09:20:00.001-08:00

SAVE THE DATE! SATURDAY, MARCH 31ST, 2012
Eat a Book Today!
The 7th 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, March 31, 2012, 12:00 - 3:00 pm
(but don't bother coming after 1:30 cuz we eat all the books at 2:00!)
The Good Shepherd Center
4th Flr Chapel Room
4649 Sunnyside Ave North, Seattle, WA
* Admission is free for those bringing entries and $10 for those without entries.

Eat a Book Today! combines the creative and culinary talents of NW bibliophiles, foodies, book artists, chefs, bakers, librarians, kids and punsters.

Register your Edible Entries by midnight March 28th by emailing us (no need to register if you're not bringing an entry). 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!

Bringing a book? come around 11:00.
Not bringing a book? Come at NOON - no later than 1:00 - or 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

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     – "Benjamin Franklin
    •    Most Drop-dead Gorgeous    – TBD
    •    Most Delectably Appetizing    –    TBD
    •    Best Young Edible Artist (K-12) – TBD
    •    Best in Show – voted by the hungry horde, presented by the Edible Emcee - Nancy Guppy

2011 Bookie Awards

Ethan Fromage

Goodnight Moon Pie

Hungry Masses

The Unbearable Lightness of Bean

Start your Ovens!!! 2011 Seattle Edible Book Festival

2011-02-03T16:37:00.000-08:00

Eat a Book Today!
The 6th 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 2nd, 2011, 12:00 - 3:00 pm
(but don't bother coming after 1:30 cuz we eat all the books at 2:00!)
The Good Shepherd Center
4th Flr Chapel Room
4649 Sunnyside Ave North, Seattle, WA
* Admission is free for those bringing entries and $10 for those without entries.

Eat a Book Today! combines the creative and culinary talents of NW bibliophiles, foodies, book artists, chefs, bakers, librarians, kids and punsters.

Register your Edible Entries by midnight March 31st by emailing us (no need to register if you're not bringing an entry). 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!

Bringing a book? come around 11:00.
Not bringing a book? Come at NOON - no later than 1:00 - or 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.

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 – "Julia Children" (Imogen Love)

Most Drop-dead Gorgeous – Kurt B. Reighley

Most Delectably Appetizing – Cynthia Nims

Best Young Edible Artist (K-12) – Carl Montford

Best in Show – voted by the hungry horde and presented by Edible Emcee Nancy Guppy

Seattle Center for Book Arts (SCBA) celebrates the art of the book in all its forms. We are committed to exploring the evolution of the book as both art and structure by engaging individuals with educational and creative opportunities. SCBA is dedicated to providing an open community for book artists and enthusiasts in the Pacific Northwest while preserving traditional bookbinding and related crafts. Click here to donate and help further our mission.

UPCOMING SCBA CLASSES

}} Found and Bound - Making Books from Recycled Materials : with Amy Fleischer, Saturday, March 12, 2011
}} Letterpress Printing Workshop : with Dan Shafer
Saturday and Sunday, March 19 - 20, 2011, 10 am - 4 pm
}} Historic Bindings Series : with Lark Preya and Jenny Craig
Sundays, February 27 - March 20, 2011, 4 - 7 pm
}} German Binding on Tapes: A Custom Journal, Sketchbook,or Scrapbook:with Gudrun Aurand
Saturday, March 26, 10 am - 4 pm
}} Book and Document Repair and Conservation : with Gudrun Aurand
Sunday, March 27, 2011, 9 am - 12 pm
}} Altered Books : with Rachael Asche
Saturday and Sunday, April 9 and 10, 2011, 10 am - 4 pm
}} Paper Secrets from Korea - Felting and Cording Hanji : with Aimee Lee
Saturday, April 23, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
}} Bookbinding I :
Sundays, May 1 - 22, 2011, 4 - 7 pm

My, that was fun!

2010-04-15T09:19:00.000-07:00

To all our edible book artists, sponsors, judges, volunteers and attendees - THANK YOU!

It was INCREDIBLE-EDIBLE!

Flickr Pictures are UP!

Seattle Edible Book Festival from Marlow Harris on Vimeo.

Most Pun-derful: Gold - The Audacity of Toast - Katie Brister

Most Pun-derful: Silver - Little Hows on the Pear E - puncontrollable.com

Most Pun-derful: Bronze - The Satanic Nurses - Ann Gibson

Most Delectably Appetizing: Gold - Life of Pi(e) - Michele Yanow

Most Delectably Appetizing: Silver- Scarlet Pumpernickle - Lynnda Biek

Most Delectably Appetizing: Bronze - Quiche of the Spider Woman - Robin Kessler

Best Young Edible Artist: Gold - Twilight: Welcome to Forks - Alejandra Martinez

Best Young Edible Artist: Silver - Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Jacob Perez

Best Young Edible Artist: Bronze - The Adventures of Sherlock Scones - Avery Fulford and Samantha Seaver

Most Drop-Dead Gorgeous: Gold - Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: Struggle for Love in a Dream - Sarah Lovett

Most Drop-Dead Gorgeous: Silver - The Lorax - Erica Barton

Most Drop-Dead Gorgeous: Bronze - Old Shell, New Shell - Carolyn Mackay

Best in Show: Gold - Origin of the Reeses - Cath Carine and Suze Woolf

Best in Show: Silver - Alice in Wonderland - Carol Marty

Best in Show: Bronze - Raisin in the Sun - Linda Collins

START YOUR OVENS!

2010-02-10T09:35:00.000-08:00

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

* Get on the Mailing List for Edible Updates

Fire Bringer and One Hundred Spears of Solitude

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}

WoW!

2009-04-05T12:50:00.001-07:00

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! The Seattle Center for Book Arts is now the proud producer so you will be signing up to receive (e)mail from SCBA.

What is an Edible Book? Festival? Wha?

2009-01-13T19:20:00.000-08:00

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 -

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.
Register your name & contact info & Edible Book title with us - ASAP!
Noon to 1:00 pm, Saturday, April 4, 2009, bring your entry to the Good Shepherd Center , 4649 Sunnyside Ave North.
We will check you off the list, compliment you on your wit & creativity, arrange and photograph your entry (entries).
1:00 to 2:00, many many people (other entrants and admirers) will admire them.
2:00 to 2:30, Celebrity Judges will award prizes.
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

2008-11-01T19:36:00.000-07:00

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...