Winners of the 2014 Edible Books Festival

Many, many thanks to all of you — chefs, judges, voters, and audience — who made our first annual Edible Books Festival such a rousing success!   All the entries were fantastic, fantastical, and definitely edible.   Congratulations to our 2014 winners:
  • Best Team Entry:  Cyndi Brandenburg and family, “Where the Sidewalk Ends”
  • Best Individual Entry (Tie!):  Robin Ploof, “Money can’t buy happiness…but it can buy books and that is almost the same thing”
  • Best Individual Entry (Tie!):  Adele Holoch, “Twelfth Night”
  • “Punniest” Entry:  Academic Affairs Office (Kellie Nadeau), “A Farewell to Arms”
  • People’s Choice Award:  Cyndi Brandenburg and family, “Where the Sidewalk Ends”

 Special thanks to our judges:  Chef Sandi Earle, Prof. Suzanne Glover, Kennedy Tran, Erik Oliver, and special guest judge Brian David Johnson.
If you missed it, check out our Facebook photos at http://on.fb.me/1gmf7IJ .    Co-sponsored by the Core Division and the Library, Champlain’s Edible Books Festival is part of an international phenomenon described at http://www.books2eat.com/.  Based on this year’s amazing participation, we suspect that it may become an annual campus event ! 
Thank you,
The Edible Books Committee
Betsy Beaulieu
Janet Cottrell
Sean Leahy
Steve Wehmeyer