Edible Book Festival 2008

 

Saturday • March 29th • 2 - 4 pm

U.T. Collections Deposit Library

Corner of MLK Blvd. & Red River, Austin, TX


Best in Show/Best Book Structure
A League of Extraordinary Gingerbread Men


Wittiest
What's Eating Gilbert Grape


Tastiest
Mossflower F(w)oods


Least Appetizing
The Origin of Feces

Welcome to the website of the Sixth Annual Austin Edible Book Festival. This year’s festival was organized by students of the Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record at the University of Texas’ School of Information.

The Edible Book Festival was initiated by a group of book artists in 1999, and has since become an international event. All works of art must be edible and have something to do with books. This yearly celebration traditionally takes place on April 1st throughout the world from 2-4 p.m.  Participants make books out of anything edible…there are sandwich books, leaves of seaweed, filo dough books, and even cakes! Anything that you eat can somehow become a book.

 

The Austin celebration took place on Saturday, March 29th between 2pm and 4pm at the Collections Deposit Library (CDL) on the southwest corner of MLK Blvd and Red River St.

 

For photos of the 2008 Festival click here.

 

Special thanks to this year's sponsors: 12th Street Books, Chuy's, Quack's Bakery, and Waterloo Records, for helping to make the Edible Book Festival a wonderful success.

 

This year there were 25 entries. Over 50 visitors and participants voted for their favorites.

Prizes were awarded for the winners of the following categories:

Best in Show - A League of Extraordinary Gingerbread Men

Best Book Structure - A League of Extraordinary Gingerbread Men

Wittiest - What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Tastiest - Mossflower F(w)oods

Least Appetizing - The Origin of Feces

 

 

Photos from the 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004 Austin Edible Book Festivals

Website from the first Austin Edible Book Festival in 2003

International Edible Book Festival website

 

For more information, please contact the organizing committee by email: ebf@ischool.utexas.edu

 

 

Kilgarlin Center Who is The Kilgarlin Center?

With a $ 1m gift from former Supreme Court of Texas Justice William Wayne Kilgarlin the School of Information has established the William and Margaret Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record. The new Center builds on the School's renowned graduate education program in preservation administration and conservation, actively focusing national and international attention on preservation issues by conducting research, sponsoring symposia, and convening expert thinking on broad, timely, interrelated topics that address the management of our documentary heritage.

Kilgarlin students learn the art and science of collections care and the methods of managing and promoting preservation activities in order to fulfill the fundamental goal of extending the life of materials in libraries and archives to serve the need for which they are held.

Since its inception as the Conservation Education Program in the School of Library Service at Columbia University in 1981, Kilgarlin has graduated more than 130 students. These conservators and preservation administrators occupy leading positions in cultural institutions around the world applying the fundamental concepts of whole collections management. Visit our website to learn more about the Kilgarlin Center!