{"id":3847,"date":"2015-04-02T20:29:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T20:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2015-04-02T20:29:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T20:29:53","slug":"announcing-edible-book-festival-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2015\/04\/02\/announcing-edible-book-festival-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing Edible Book Festival Winners!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you so much to everyone who created the delectable entries that made this year’s Edible Book Festival a success!<\/p>\n

We’d also like to thank our generous sponsors who provided this year’s prizes: Beadology, Blick Art Materials, UI Libraries’ Conservation Lab, High Ground Cafe, and New Pioneer Co-op.<\/p>\n

And we extend a hearty thanks to our judges who had to make some difficult decisions in choosing the winners: Executive Chef of the Iowa Memorial Union Barry Greenberg, Special Collections’ Outreach & Instruction Librarian Colleen Theisen, and Conservator Giselle Simon.<\/p>\n


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Ella and Jameson Sherlock created a wonderful\u00a0edible version of Tom Riddle’s diary from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets<\/em>, complete with a basilisk fang and quill ink. Their entry\u00a0won in three categories: Best Book Structure, Judge’s Favorite, and Audience Favorite, and their prizes include a tour of the UI Libraries’ Conservation Lab and two gift cards to New Pioneer Co-op.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Best Literary Allusion category went to Lindsay Vella’s entry based on Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red<\/em>, titled “Geryon’s Dream Macaron.” Her prize was a handful of free coffee coins from High Ground Cafe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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And lastly, the Best Tasting Category went to Connie Sherman’s beautiful and delicious Accordion Book of Kolache, which came with the prize of a gift from Beadology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Other entries were A Confederacy of Apricots king cake by Clare Jones based on A Confederacy of Dunces<\/em>, a cake by Ferguson Ward (assisted by Connie Sherman) based on the webcomic xkcd<\/em>, an I Want My Hat Back<\/em> cake by Willow Fuchs, a penguin cake based off of And Tango Makes Three<\/em> made by Andrea Rost, Pig Out! a pie by Kaikobad Irani based on the book Piggie Pie<\/em>, and The Invisible Boy<\/em> cookies made by Mary Wallis Gutmann.<\/p>\n

Thanks again to all who participated, organized, judged, and ate these incredible edible books!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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