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fish, ride horses, or mountain bike when they weren't making Japanese block prints or cook-
ing, beating, and pressing leaves and grasses into sheets of paper. Before PBI took on its
gypsy wanderings, it was held each year at a picturesque artist college in Michigan called
Ox-Bow.
EAT YOUR WORDS
Every April 1, the International Edible Book Festival invites bibliophiles, book
artists, and food lovers to create edible books. Each group or individual gathers
among themselves to exhibit, photograph, and then consume the entries, with im-
ages being posted at www.books2eat.com for the world to see. The result? Absurdly
creative concoctions made from phyllo, nori, pasta, peanut butter, and everything in
between. Bea Nettles, for example, an Illinois book artist, made
The Toast of the
Town
by binding six pieces of toast together. Two L.A. performance artists provided
ingredients and dry ice for guests at a High/Low Tea to make their own individual
scoops of ice cream in plastic bags. An artist from Toledo made the entire world at-
las out of cookie dough. You have to see it to believe it.
Daily classes at PBI are combined with lectures, discussions, and communal meals. Dur-
ing the first four-day session, participants take two classes—one in the morning and one in
the afternoon. The second session features one all-day class. Choices include making paper
from plants, intuitive imagemaking, making and sharpening knives, and reproducing one of
the Nag Hammadi codices, a group of single-quire bindings from third- or fourth-century
Egypt.
