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Eat Your Words Janet Kuypers 4/2/19, written the day after Edible Book Day With the family sick and in bed yesterday, I thought about the Edible Book Festival that I was at home missing out on. With my library of books, both made and read, I wondered if paper was literally edible, then saw how people celebrated this day not by actually eating books, but making “facsimiles” of books, like making pastries where the icing makes food look like a book. I had no intention, all alone, to bake a cake to fashion into a book to eat, so I looked for another way to “eat my words” and added alphabet soup noodles into my egg drop soup. Mixing letters and numbers with strands of egg whites really made it a messy read, but I still had enough leftover yummy word soup to enjoy today, and maybe tomorrow. I might not have literally made a book, but my integration of text into my soup was my deconstructed literary inspiration. They tell you not to play with your food, but April 1st was a day I could play with my letters within my food, that form the words that describe our lives. And hey, that’s a reason to celebrate too. |
