{"id":10729,"date":"2026-02-23T10:24:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/?p=10729"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:48:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:48:01","slug":"5th-annual-edible-books-festival-sign-ups-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/2026\/02\/23\/5th-annual-edible-books-festival-sign-ups-open\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Annual Edible Books Festival Sign Ups Open!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSew0ZzPISVYWp2PA_FlUKVSbtc_Zh_mo75uvjl_xhb8i2YS2g\/viewform?pli=1&amp;pli=1\">Sign up now!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 9th at 12:00 in Ladd Library, craft a decadent dessert or a succulent savory morsel as a pun or homage to your favorite book or classic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event is open to all students, faculty, and staff members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Entries can be recreations of an iconic book or cover, depiction of a scene, a pun on the title, or anything else inspired by the book!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It can be baked, cooked, or otherwise&#8211; but please have it prepared beforehand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the day of, creations will be displayed, judged, then eaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Winners will be awarded a culinary medallion!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSew0ZzPISVYWp2PA_FlUKVSbtc_Zh_mo75uvjl_xhb8i2YS2g\/viewform?pli=1&amp;pli=1\">Sign up now to share your own creation!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need some inspiration, check out some photos from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/25\/from-page-to-palette-campus-community-delights-in-edible-books-festival-treats\/\">last year&#8217;s entries<\/a>. Last year, our own Grey McGloon \u201821 contributed \u201cLime and Punishment by Fyodor Donut-oyevsky,\u201d which were chocolate donuts topped with mint and lime frosting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email questions or comments  to Karla Chichester at kchichester@bates.edu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 9th at 12:00, craft a decadent dessert or a succulent savory morsel as a pun or homage to your favorite book or classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":10367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10732,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729\/revisions\/10732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}