This document announces an Edible Book Festival to be held at Northern Virginia Community College on April 1, 2010 as part of their National Library Week celebration. The festival is based on the birthday of Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, author of The Physiology of Taste. Entries must be edible art related to books through shapes, content, titles, or characters. Examples given include sandwich books, seaweed leaves, filo dough books, cakes, and spam books. Entrants are invited to create an entry and bring it to the library before 10am on the day of the festival.

1. 2010 EDIBLE BOOK FESTIVAL Northern Virginia Community CollegeAnnandale Campus Library

3. The Festival Across the world, the International Edible Book Festival is held on April 1. This year the Annandale Campus Library is joining in the fun as part of our National Library Week Celebration. This one day edible festival of books and food is held on the birthday of French gastronome Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826). He was the author of The Physiology of Taste, or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy , a witty meditation on food.

4. The Rules Each entry of edible art must have something to do with books as shapes and/or content, or be based on a book title, a book cover, or book character(s). We reserve the right to determine exhibitors. Books can be made out of anything edible… there are sandwich books, leaves of seaweed, filo dough books, cakes, spam-books, hot-dog entries. We invite you to join our festival either as an edible book creator . If you want to create an entry - send your name and contact info to pderoy@nvcc.edu by March 26, 2010. Then, on April 1, 2010 bring your edible book to the library before 10 A.M.

5. The Entries

9. The Queen of Hearts

13. Fifty Crackers and a Doodle

14. Good Dill Hunting

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