Call for Entries: Edible Books! (Los Angeles)

How To Make An Edible Book
A Call For Entries Or Entrees, Hors d'oeuvres and Desserts

The Los Angeles Book Arts Center invites book artists and book lovers of all ages to cook up a literary feast for the Sixth Annual International Edible Book High/Low Tea. The tea will be held Saturday, April 2, 2005 from 2:00 P.M. to 5:00 PM. Set up to begin at 12:00 and run until 1:30, show to begin promptly at 2:00, we will eat the artwork at 4:00 and begin clean up at 5:00 PM.

What is an Edible Book?
An edible book is just that. An artists' book that is edible, made out of food rather than paper and board.

How to begin.
What's your favorite food?
Chocolate?
Cheese?
Vegetables?

What's your favorite book?
Romance?
Biography?
Children's Literature?
Mystery?

Here is the opportunity to make your books and eat them too.

Materials can be any food items that will make an edible book. Visit the market with a new view of food as an art material. Imagine books of broccoli, tart tomes, pages of pasta. Bake a cake, chop some veggies, the sky's the limit.

Think about your content and your structure. Don't forget the taste! Most of all, have fun.

There is no fee to participate in or view this show, but we do need to know how many artists will be creating edible artwork. For more info and to register your edible art please contact Lisa Deutsch at 310-657-2616/ LAGourmet@aol.com or Marcia Moore at 310-827-6192.

Comments

[Sena]

Ooooo! Edible books! Actually, with the new flavored inks for printers, and using edible papers like rice paper, this should be amazing! Imagine - each chapter a new course, clapped between an appetizer front cover and a dessert back cover.