C-U Edible Book Festival

The Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3rd Annual C-U Edible Book Festival
2008 Gallery

Festival Gallery:
2006
2007
2008

International Edible Book Festival site

The 2008 Edible Book Festival was held on April 1, 2008
at the University YMCA in Champaign.

Thanks to the Soybean Press, University of Illinois Press, and Bea Neattles for donating prizes! Also, thanks to Bea Nettles who photographed each entry before it is sliced for the viewers to enjoy!

The 2008 festival was co-sponsored by the University YMCA as a part of the Know Your University Series and by the Champaign Public Library with a grant from the Meet A Hero @ Your Library reading program.
Funding for this grant was awarded by the Illinois State Library (ISL), a Division of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), under the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).

Prizes were awarded in the following categories:

Top honors: Culinary
Top honors: Literary
Top honors: Artistic
Best depiction of the Meet a Hero @ Your Library theme
People's choice

Judges:

Jennifer Hain Teper, Conservation Librarian, UIUC
Fred Schlipf, retired director, Urbana Free Library
Ashlee Roderick, owner and pastry chef, The Cake Artist's Studio

Top honors: Culinary
First place: Kiley Reed Sweet or Savory (Crepe Paper Book)	Second place: Julia Keener Hungry Planet: What the World Eats	Third Place: Jessica Liu Robinson Mouss-o
Top honors: Literary
First place: Karen Hewitt Leaves of Grass	Second place: Molly MacRae The Chard in the Scone	Third Place: Jonathan Sivier Candy Corneiform
Top honors: Artistic
First place: Glen Davies and Sandy Wolf Homage to Giuseppe Arcimboldo	Second place: Kathleen Smith Grape Moments in Literary History: Grape Expectations; All Creatures Grape and Small; The Grapes of Wrath; The Grape Escape	Third Place: Emily Love The Pelican Beef, by John Grisham
Best Depiction of the Meet a Hero @ Your Library Theme	People's Choice (tied)
Sue Searing Profiles in Cabbage (with apologies to JFK)	Karen Hewitt Leaves of Grass	Glen Davies and Sandy Wolf Homage to Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Anonymous Lard of the Rings	Susan Bekiares Death of Ivan Ilyich	Ata Bird Palindromes
Center for Children's Books Blood and Chocolate, by Annette Curtis Klause	Molly Dolan Not Even Books Can Prepare You for Everything	Cathy Fager And I Will Eat Them with a Mouse
Lisa Fager Sword and the Scone	Karen Green Baby Mousse "Our Hero"	Valerie Hotchkiss To Kill a (Tequila) Mockingbird
Samuel Price Hotchkiss The Secret Garden	Julia Kenner Clockwork Orange	M. Kathleen Kern Fly with a Hero
Klara Kim Fahrenheit 451	Klara Kim The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization	Laura Larkin Peter Pan(cakes) with Berries
Molly MacRae Charlotte's Web	Susan Rodgers Call Me Ishmael	Sara Schepis Printer's Case = A Good Book; Some Assembly Required
Molly Scott Honeymoon Scrabble	Claudia & Molly Serbanuta This Book Holds a Story for You (computer & codex)	Steve & Nadja Shoemaker Sam I Am Was Southern
Eleanore Stasheff Knot So Easy to Read (quipu)	Rachel Suntop Taste of Iceland	Yael Taylor Falling Leaves