Edible Book Festival makes reading as fun as eating
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Tables at the 2011 Edible Book Festival at UW-Madison Memorial Library (728 State St., Room 460, 608-262-2423) will be piled high with food that looks like books from 4-6:30 p.m. on April 12. What gives? It’s a contest to inspire Madison residents to think about literature. The rules: “An edible book is an entry made of edible materials, with the subject pertaining to books in shape or content.” So, a typewriter cake for Doreen Cronin’s Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type; a baseball embedded in rye bread for J.D Salinger’s The Catcher In The Rye; and white and milk chocolate chess pieces squaring off for Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War number among past entries. Maybe this year someone will stomp on some hot dogs and call it Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle? Who knows? This event is both playful and devious; it’s a bit of conceptual cleverness that tricks readers into creative analysis of literary themes in the service of fun, friendly competition, and stuffing faces with food.
FATSOMETER: 4. Event organizers recognize the potential impulse to tear into the entries themselves, so cheese, crackers, deli meats, fruit, and other snacks will be provided to dissuade the overenthusiastic.
