1st Annual Edible Book Festival
John Jaffe, CIO, and I became interested in the Edible Book Fest through conversations with a good friend, Nancy Magnuson, who is Director of the Goucher College Library. We had heard about the event on occasion over the years and, when Nancy did it at Goucher last year and invited us through the Facebook event page, we mentioned it to a couple of students and faculty who said they thought it would be a great event. There are lots of great cooks, bakers, and foodies on campus among the students (who even have a cooking club) and among faculty and staff so this seemed like a wonderful and fun spring event.
Here is a link to the International Edible Book Festival that explains the history of the event.
http://www.books2eat.com/
We had a wonderful number of entries for the first year with a total of 22 entries. Of those, three unfortunately withdrew at the last minute and we had one no-show so a total of 18 entries were judged. There was also a demonstration entry from the library based on the book, Accidental Billionaires that inspired the film The Social Network (Facebook) that was just for our fun.
Some of the books depicted were:
A Clockwork Orange
Great Expectations
Where the Sidewalk Ends
All’s Well That Ends Well
Green Eggs and Ham
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Help
Salome by Oscar Wilde
The Prince and the Pauper
If That Breathes Fire, We’re Toast
Grapes of Wrath
Memories of my Melancholy Whores
Bleak House
A Tale of Two Cities
Good Eats The Early Years
Wicked
The Lord of the Rings
Our fabulous judges were: Dean Jonathan Green, Professors John Gregory Brown, Carrie Brown and Eric Casey and Allison Wiley, Class of 2011.
There were four basic awards:
Most Punderful
Good Looking Cooking
Best Student Entry
Fan Favorite (People’s Choice)
The judges determined the winners of the first three and all the people who came to the event voted by placing colored dots on the sheet for their favorite entry. In addition to the awards above, the judges awarded prizes for A Head of the Rest to Caitlin Cashin, ’07 for her interpretation of Oscar Wilde’s Salome and to Robyn Sanderson for her entry on The Very Hungry Caterpillar. All winners received prizes.
Some of the others who entered included Sheila Alexander, Celeste Delgado-Librero, Stephanie Abell, Cathy Gutierrez, Ashley Carroll, and Jean Hazelwood.
We look forward to having lots of fun with next years Edible Book Fest.
The Winners:
1) Sheila Alexander “People’s Choice/ Fan Favorite” for If That Breathes Fire, We’re Toast
2) Caitlin Cashin “A Head of the Rest” for Salome
3) Deb Sigman “Good Looking Cooking” for Where the Sidewalk Ends
4) Julie Kane “Most Pun-derful” for A Tale of Two Cities
5) Robyn Sanderson “Most Creepy” for The Very Hungry Caterpillar
6) Angela Concetta-Meikie “Best Student Entry” for The Prince and the Pauper
Here is a link to a great photo album by the MMC’s Meridith de Avila Khan.
http://sbc.edu/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=4694
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