Life Update: "Seoul" Long, and Thanks For All the Fish Tacos!
- Mikayla Wobrak
- May 10, 2018
- 2 min read
Updated: Jan 5, 2022
So this post is a little late (by about a month and a half), but I didn’t want to miss out on posting about this exciting event!
On March 26th, the Jennie King Mellon Library at Chatham University took part in the International Edible Books Festival, a celebration of food and literature which was created by Judith Hoffberg and Béatrice Coron in 2000. This year marked Chatham’s 7th year participating. The goal of this event is to “unite bibliophiles, book artists and food lovers to celebrate the ingestion of culture and its fulfilling nourishment.”
This year saw a number of delicious literary dishes, including some meat pies based on Sweeney Todd, a Matilda-inspired cake, and The Crepe Gatsby. My boyfriend and I submitted a creation of our own this year — a yummy Korean kimchi-slaw fish taco dish inspired by The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Universe. Our dish was entitled “Seoul” Long and Thanks for all the Fish Tacos. We ended up winning “most sustainable” for these tacos, as many of the ingredients were locally-sourced and the dish was completely gluten-free and dairy-free!
It was so much fun to see how creatively everyone interpreted the prompt for the festival. The only real rule is that all foods must be in some way related to books either in shape or content, which leaves room for plenty of creativity and pun-tential. We had some desserts, some savory dishes, all deliciousness. There was a variety of skill levels present, and some dishes interpreted their source material more literally (like replicating the book cover) while others went for the puns. All in all, I was so impressed by everyone’s fantastic submissions — and my stomach sure was, too!
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