 After School Snack by Dawn Forbes |
The International Edible Book Festival is held yearly on April 1st. Participants create edible books that are exhibited, photographed and then eaten. Here’s an example to the left, and there are lots more on this website.
I haven’t been to one, but every year when I see announcements about festival “exhibits,” I think about what sort of book I’d make. Recently I saw this Electrolux Scan Toaster prototype bread printer and thought it would be perfect to make such a book. The idea is that you plug the toaster into your computer, put a slice of bread in it, and then print.
Less science fiction is this article on how to print on edible paper with edible ink.
Yesterday at my local thrift store I found a stamp (I think you’d call it) that would lightly cut the letters for Good Morning into a slice of bread. Then you toast the bread and …. toast with a message.
Fifty cents, and I didn’t buy it. What a fool.
This might be perfect for the times we’re in. I mean we’re toast and who doesn’t like toast?
I’m using the Scan Toaster to print my resume!