The International Edible Books Festival
April 1, 2008

"April 1st is the birthday of French gastronome Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), famous for his book Physiologie du goût, a witty meditation on food. April fools' day is also the perfect day to eat your words and play with them as the "books" are consumed on the day of the event." -- Books2Eat

***First Prize***
"March of the Penguins" by Amanda Brown and Laura Heffner
based on March of the Penguins from the film by Luc Jaquet
Ingredients: hard-boiled eggs, black olives, carrots and the March page from a 2008 desk calendar.
(Good thing the festival was held on April 1!)

***Second Prize***
"A Clockwork Orange" - Carrie Fitzpatrick
based on A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Ingredients: orange chiffon cake, Mandarin oranges, chocolate embellishments

***Third Prize***
"Catcher in Rye" - Susan Rehhauser
based on Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Ingredients: homemade rye bread

"Broken" - Debbie Greenawald
based on Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption by William Cope Moyers & Katherine Ketcham
Ingredients: cookies

"Hamlette" - Beth DeMeo
based on Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Ingredients: ham, jelly beans, and cupcake wrapper skirt

"The Grapes of Math" - Beth DeMeo
based on The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Ingredients: chocolate cookie crust, frosting, red shoestring licorice, and grapes

"Frank in Stein" - Beth DeMeo
based on Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Ingredients: hot dog, marvelous beer stein

"A Raisin in the Sun" - Carrie Fitzpatrick and Beth DeMeo
based on A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Ingredients: one raisin, one sun lamp

"The Giving Tree" by Su Kane
based on The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Ingredients: brownies, spearmint leaves, grape tomatoes and lots of good thoughts!

"The Grapes of Math" - Kristin Brumbach
based on The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Ingredients: red and green grapes

"Grape Eggspectations" - by Su Kane, Sharon Neal, and Pat Stremba
based on Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Ingredients: red beet eggs, chocolate candy eggs, coconut, red and green grapes, and sugar cookies

"Hairy Potter" - Debbie Greenawald
based on Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Ingredients: chocolate pudding, gummy worms, broken cookies, and one adorable panda

"Lettuce Have Peas" - Pat Stremba
based on Let us Have Peace: The Story of Ulysses S. Grant by Howard N. Meyer
Ingredients: lettuce and peas

"The Little Flowers of St. Francis" - Carol Bracken and Marti Smith
based on The Little Flowers of Saint Francis tales by and about St. Francis of Assisi
Ingredients: carrot cake, coconut, candy flowers

"The Life of Pie" - Sister Rosemary Stets, OSF
based on The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Ingredients: Apple Pie

"Love in Thyme over Collards" Susan Rehhauser
based on Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ingredients: collard greens and springs of thyme

"The Old Man and the Sea" - John Nelka
based on The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Ingredients: blueberry Jell-o, fruit cocktail, gummy fish, whipped cream
and a tiny boat being tossed in a fish bowl.

"The Rainbow Fish" - Sarah Heckman
based on The Rainbow Fish or Regenbogenfisch by Marcus Pfister
Ingredients: blue frosting, blue Kool-Aid powder, graham crackers, assorted color gummi fish and assorted color goldfish crackers.

"Romeo & Juliet's Wedding Cake" - Rachel Penny
based on Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
performances by Alvernia students in Francis Hall Auditorium
April 20, 2008 2:00pm
April 22-25, 2008 8:00pm

"Life of Pie" - Bobbie Rohrbach
based on The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Ingredients: apples and pie crust, finished apply pie,
the remains of an apple pie well remembered.

"To Kill a Mockingbird" - Fredericka Cope
based on To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Ingredients: Doughnuts, frosting, marshmallows, white chocolate, caramel, jelly, jelly beans
See it's a penguin pretending to be a rooster, thus "mocking a bird," and the marshmallow man is coming to kill it. Yummy stuff!

"Twelve Red Herrings" - Gene & Margaret Mitchell
based on Twelve Red Herrings by Jeffrey Archer
Ingredients: one dozen red herrings, lettuce, parsley, spinach, paprika

Updated: September 25, 2008

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