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The Edible Book Festival
and Tea provided an opportunity for book lovers, writers, artists, and
library enthusiasts to come together to celebrate books as both the transmitters
of words and images and as familiar and beautiful objects. Throughout
history, the human drive to communicate and record ideas has led to the
innovative use of materials at hand to construct books in all manner of
imaginative and unlikely formats. In the twenty-first century, alternative
modes of publication abound and the idea of "the book" is more flexible
than ever. At the Tea, food served as a metaphor, reminding us that to
nourish, art and ideas must be consumed and digested.
This event
was co-sponsored by the Arts of the Book Collection, Arts Library, the
Yale Library Standing Committee on Professional Awareness, and the Yale
Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Library.
Edible
Book High/Low Tea
April 1, 2005 at 3:30 pm
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Linnea Rose
-- A rebus scroll of A Tutti Frutti Lovesong by Mary G. Dembeck
Ingredients:
fruit leather, fruit, icing
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Rita Valley
-- Fruit Pi (An Open Book)
Ingredients:
blueberries, apples, pie crust (flour, shortening, salt), fruit
leather, "twizzlers"
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A suite of savory
entries from Emily Kopley and Abigail Ellman
Lopita
by Vladimir Nabakov
Mrs. Dilloway Hummus by Virginia Woolf
The Scarlet Cheddar by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ingredients:
pita bread, hummus, cheddar cheese
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Emily Kopley
and Abigail Ellman -- Absalami, Absalami! by William Faulkner
Ingredients:
salami, mustard
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Also from Emily
Kopley and Abigail Ellman
Brie Grows
in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Ingredients:
crackers, brie
cheese
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Corey Rossman
-- Watership Drowned
Ingredients:
white chocolate mousse (blue food coloring), marshmallow bunnies,
shortbread, phyllo dough (baked with butter, cinnamon, sugar), caramel
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Susan Klein
- Apri-Coptic
Ingredients:
fruit leather, licorice, dried apricots
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Carla Heister
-- The Cacahuatl Eater: Ruminations of an Unabashed Chocolate
Addict by Jonathan Ott
Ingredients:
chocolate cake
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Carla Heister
-- Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Suess
Ingredients:
eggs, basil, parsely, spinach, ham
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Carla Heister
-- Miniature books
Ingredients:
graham crackers, hershey's miniatures, fruit leather
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Edible
Books Workshop
April 1, 2005 from 1pm to 3pm
Sterling Memorial Library
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Could these
materials be turned into replicas of historical book related structures?
Yes!
This kit was
given to each workshop participant. We discussed the history and
relationship of three important structures: papyrus, the scroll,
the codex. Then we created our own versions with edible products.
Each participant made their work even more unique by adding decoration
and text.
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[left]
A demonstration of sewing to assemble a version of an early Roman
codex
[below &
below left]
Students assembling
papyrus from "fruit by the foot."
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A Selection
of Workshop Creations
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Trio
of student work |
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"I'll
eat my words" papyrus by Miriam Goldberg |
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Codex
and scroll by Miriam Goldberg |
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"Spub"
codex |
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P(oem)
by Dolores Hayden |
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Yes/No/Maybe
by Dolores Hayden |
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Wordsworth
codex, scroll, papyrus by Brianna Hill |
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"Once
upon a time..." scroll |
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