Anonymous Patron writes “The New York Times has an article on Edible Books Festival. Judith A. Hoffberg, a California librarian, came up with the concept over Thanksgiving dinner back in 1999 and decided it would be best observed on April Fools’ Day, which also turns out to be the birthday of the French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, author of “The Physiology of Taste” (1825).Now in its seventh year, the Edible Books Festival has spread to 28 states and 15 other countries.
As a metaphor, book-eating (or bibliophagy, to use the five-dollar word) has flourished over the centuries, invoked by everyone from Elizabeth I, who nourished her soul on “goodlie greene herbes” plucked from the New Testament, to the television chef Tyler Florence, who titled his latest cookbook “Eat This Book.””
sounds disgusting
yuk. eat a book that who knows who’s hands have been all over and touched? bleh