First Annual Austin Edible Book Festival!

Sponsored by the School of Information's Preservation and Conservation Studies (PCS) program at the University of Texas at Austin, Book Toast and High Tea: Edible Book Festival 2003 is an opportunity for people of all disciplines to showcase their creativity through both literature and food products.

Viewing and Tea on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 2-4pm (bring your books before 2:00) On the Front Lawn of the Collection Deposit Library (at the intersection of MLK and Red River)

University students and Austin residents will have a chance to literally eat their words or the words of someone else during Austin's first edible book festival on April 1, 2003.

Judges Peggy Weiss, (restauranteur and co-owner of Jeffrey's, Shoreline Grill, Cipollina's, and O's,) and John Wright (Exhibits, Humanities Research Center) will award prizes. Additionally, the "books" will be auctioned off to raise money for the PCS program.

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."

—Sir Francis Bacon, 1561-1626.

For more information about the Austin Edible Book Festival, please check the website, email austinediblebooks@yahoo.com or call Beth Heller at 512-445-6306 or ask the Book Fest Organizers when you see them: Stephen Cooper, Abby Haywood, Holly Roberton, Sarah Rodriguez (And, yes, April 1st, we really mean it! This is not a joke! Silly, yes. Joke, no.)