Edible Book Festival

Here's an interesting event that's happening this week. The Western New York Book Arts Center is having their annual Edible Book Festival on Friday April 1 and this is no April Fool's joke. The April 1st date actually was chosen to commemorate the birthday of Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826) a French gastronome who wrote the book, Physiologie du Gout.

Part of the International Edible Book Festival, which is held annually on or around April 1st, artists create an edible book that’s judged on appearance as well as taste; one can literally eat their words! The event, which takes place from 5-8pm, is open to the general public. tickets are $10. For more information, see their website www.wnybookarts.org/edible2011.php

The Western New York Book Arts Center is a unique store/gallery promotes printing and book related arts. They carry bookbinding supplies, papers for letter press printing, and decorative art papers, including Hahnemuhle papers from Germany, Armad papers from Montreal, and Thai rice papers. They also carry a selection of books, cards, and posters. In addition, they also offer lectures and workshops about printmaking, papermaking, illustration, design, writing, and binding.

WNY Book Arts Center, 468 Washington Street, Buffalo