Books are Great to Eat…I mean Read

Greetings Blog minions…uh..I mean friends,

  
I’d like to start off the month of May with a tale. Back in April, I had the pleasure of attending an Edible Book Fest at the University of Pittsburgh. In celebration of National Library Week and National Preservation Week, Hillman Library hosted a bookalicious festival where book enthusiasts/pastry making connoisseurs from around the world (really just people that worked in the library) came together to showcase their talent for literary baking.

I wasn’t able to stay for the tasting, a huge mistake on my part, but I was able to snap a few shots of the entries as they rolled in. I have to admit, I was very impressed by the designs. Put baking and books together and people can be overwhelmingly creative. Maybe next year I should bake an entry?!

Check out the masterpieces below! I apologize in advance that I wasn’t able to get the names of the creators; my I-phone camera isn’t the greatest.

Enjoy!

Tent rendition from the Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.

I’m not entirely sure what this is. I think it’s the yellow brick road from The Wonderful Wizard of OZ by L. Frank Baum.

Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockette Johnson.

Moo, Baa, La-la-la Baklava by Sandra Boynton. One of the cutest entries I saw and probably one of the tastiest.

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff and Felicia Bond. If you can’t tell those are mickey mouse shaped cookies.

I was sort of confused about this one too. I think it may have been a compilation of books, none of which I am familiar with.

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. I love the fancy feast cat food cans.

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

Overall, it was an interesting experience. It's great to see the impact books are making on individuals' lives. So many times, I hear that books have been replaced by the internet or that books are a dying breed. It's simply not true. Books continue on because in this world, people still need to get away. To travel to distant lands, meet interesting characters, participate in trying quests, and explore to the fullest their own imaginations.


-Black Librarian