Edible Book Festival

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'In Defense of Food' by Erin Walker

Where: Asheville BookWorks  When: April Fool’s Day , April l, 2011, Friday. 5:30 – 8:30 PM Who: Bibliophiles, Foodies, Book Artists, Chefs, Bakers, Librarians, Kids and Punsters. How: View – Vote – Eat. Make an Edible Book or simply come and enjoy the masterpieces. All books will be eaten at 7 PM. Cost: Admission is free for those bringing entries and $5 for those without entries.

Eat a Book Today! Edible Book Festival is an annual world-wide event held on or around April Fool’s Day, to celebrate books and food and the people who love them. It combines the creative and culinary talents of bibliophiles, foodies, book artists, chefs, bakers, librarians, kids and punsters.

'Overview of Ancient Scripts' by Jenna Weston

April 1st is the birthday of French gastronome Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), famous for his book, Physiologie du goût,’ a witty meditation on food. April Fools’ Day is also the perfect day to eat your words and play with them as the “books” are consumed on the day of the event. This ephemeral global banquet, in which anyone can participate, is shared by all on the internet and allows everyone to preserve and discover unique bookish nourishments. This festival is a celebration of the ingestion of culture and a way to concretely share a book; it is also a deeper reflexion on our attachment to food and our cultural differences.

Produced locally each year by Asheville BookWorks, our regional Edible Book Festival will be held on Friday, April 1st, 2011, 5:30 – 8:30 pm (don’t bother coming after 7:30 pm cuz, we eat all the books at 7:00!) Admission is free for those bringing entries and $5 for those without entries.

Register before March 30th by e-mailing us at gallery@ashevillebookworks.com and we’ll reserve a space for your masterpiece. Click for pdf entry form.

'Book of Kale' by Ester Rimer

Create and bring a piece of edible art related to books. It can be a 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. If you are interpreting a particular book, bring a copy of it to display alongside your masterpiece. 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? Arrive anytime between 1 and 4 PM to deliver your Edible Book entry. Your admission to the event will be free! Come back with friends and family to view the Edible Books at 5:30 and at 7 PM the Edible Books will be eaten with tea, coffee and milk, perhaps some wine too.

Eating the Books!

Not bringing a book? Come at 5:30 and no later than 7 PM or you won’t have time to see them!

Friday April 1, 2011 Edible Schedule:

  • Noon – 4 PM Edible Entries will be accepted, photographed and exhibited.
  • 5:30 – 7 PM Public viewing and voting for Best in Show.
  • 6:30 Celebrity Judges award prizes.
  • 7 PM Edible Books will be eaten with tea, coffee, milk and vino.

Categories

  • Most Pun-derful
  • Most Drop-dead Gorgeous
  • Most Delectably Appetizing
  • Best Young Edible Book Artist (K-12)
  • Best in Show by Popular Vote!

And our Celebrity Judges are:

  • Mackensy Lunsford, Food Editor, Mt. Xpress. Mackensy Lunsford is an avid foodie and adventurous eater with approximately 13 years of professional culinary experience. Lunsford is now a civilian, generally limiting her cooking to parties of less than 100, and spending the majority of her time eating and writing about food (and making sincere efforts to visit the gym). Lunsford writes for the Mountain Xpress, an Asheville based independent news-weekly. She is a recipient of an Alt-Weekly Award from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies for food-writing. She has also been featured in Carolina Home and Garden, Bold Life, Verve, and WNC Magazine, among others. Lunsford has lived in the Asheville area for twelve years, and finds herself continuously amazed by the quality of the food, landscape and people that surround her on a daily basis.
  • Brandy Bourne, Librarian and organizer of The Big Crafty. A librarian by day who works mostly with bits and bytes, by night Brandy focuses on the analog world of makers and making.  With partner Justin Rabuck, she has spent the past few years happily organizing local indie art fest, The Big Crafty.  Previously, she has worked as an oral historian for the state of North Carolina, as a brittle books specialist at UNC Chapel Hill, and as a researcher for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Charlotte Observer and Golden Lotus Magazine.  Brandy was raised in Western NC but also lived in Taiwan, where she acquired an appreciation for comics, elaborate home workshops and stinky tofu.
  • Cynthia Canejo, UNCA Professor of Art. Dr. Canejo joined UNC Asheville in 2006 after working professionally in film and animation in California. Turning to investigate issues in art history, she has been dividing her time between research on art in Latin America (specializing in Brazil and Mexico) and Medieval architecture (centering on Cistercian construction and focusing on the southern Paris Basin).  While Cynthia has published articles on various subjects—from builders in the Yonne Valley to the emergence of Tropicália/Tropicalismo in Brazil—her other interests include: the intersection of animation/cartoons, comix/graphic novels, and film; issues related to inclusion; and interdisciplinary contact, appropriation, and adaptation.  She has received numerous research grants and fellowships for studies which have, for example, emphasized the innovative aspects of builders of small Early Gothic churches or drawn attention to the inspired works of contemporary artists in Brazil.

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