{"id":12205,"date":"2020-04-01T13:48:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T17:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=12205"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:37:06","slug":"international-edible-book-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/01\/international-edible-book-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Edible Book Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Make an Edible Book!\" width=\"670\" height=\"377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7hV0SgzwBeo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>International Edible Book Day is celebrated on April 1st. April Fools may seem like the perfect day to create literary inspired desserts and dishes, but in fact Edible Book Day celebrates the birthday of French gastronome Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 &#8211; 1826). Famous for his book <em>Physiologie du go\u00fbt, <\/em>Brillat-Savarin and his colleague Grimod de La Reyni\u00e8re are known as the creators of the gastronomic essay genre.<\/p>\n<p>This unusual holiday was the brainchild of book artists <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judith_Hoffberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Judith A. Hoffberg<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/beatricecoron.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">B\u00e9atrice Coron<\/a>, who cooked up this idea in 1999 during Thanksgiving. Edible Book day was first celebrated in 2000. This yearly event takes place around the world and invites bibliophiles, book artists, binders and food lovers to combine literature with food in creative and humorous ways.<\/p>\n<p>In this video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbss.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North Bennet Street School<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowmountainbindery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colin Urbina<\/a> and I offer two options for creating an edible book inspired by bookbinding techniques. Using tortillas for pages and jelly and peanut butter for glue, Colin recreates an edible version of a Drum-leaf binding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NEPE0819.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"12294\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/01\/international-edible-book-day\/nepe0819\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NEPE0819.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2503,2503\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 7&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1585675276&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.99&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NEPE0819\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NEPE0819-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NEPE0819-1024x1024.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NEPE0819-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NEPE0819-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NEPE0819-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NEPE0819-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NEPE0819-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NEPE0819-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NEPE0819-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was greatly inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westdean.org.uk\/study\/school-of-conservation\/blog\/books-and-library-materials\/intro-to-binding-japanese-stab-binding-tutorial-flexible-cover-with-three-hole-stitching\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tiffany Eng&#8217;s post<\/a> on the West Dean Arts &amp; Conservation blog. I&#8217;ve been wanting to make her version of a Japanese Stab binding for a long time. Unfortunately, my twizzler thread was not long enough to create the proper sewing. My edible book has leaves of lettuce, ham and salami with swiss cheese endpapers and mayonnaise doublures. The Cambridge panel tooling was done with yellow mustard. Our books were bound, documented and then consumed.<\/p>\n<p>Even though this video is geared towards kids, this technique is great for any age group. You can find more online content created for NBSS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbss.edu\/continuing-education\/kids-activities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. If you are looking for even more instructional content, I have a growing list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/tutorials\/\">tutorials<\/a> and I also teach live workshops in-person and online. Check out my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/workshops\/workshops.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">list of Upcoming Workshops<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy International Edible Book Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Edible Book Day is celebrated on April 1st. April Fools may seem like the perfect day to create literary inspired desserts and dishes, but in fact Edible Book Day celebrates the birthday of French gastronome Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 &#8211; 1826). Famous for his book Physiologie du go\u00fbt, Brillat-Savarin and his colleague Grimod de La [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1276],"tags":[2279,1038,2375,2376,949,2377,2378],"class_list":["post-12205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-beatrice-coron","tag-colin-urbina","tag-edible-book-day","tag-judith-a-hoffberg","tag-north-bennet-street-school","tag-tiffany-eng","tag-west-dean-arts-and-conservation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-3aR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11644,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/30\/swell-things-no-48-maine-michigan-and-texas\/","url_meta":{"origin":12205,"position":0},"title":"Swell Things No. 48 \/\/ Maine, Michigan and Texas","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"June 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"For the past three months, I've been traveling to teach and have visited some incredible spaces and met really talented people. 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