I usually start my announcement of a new edition of Novel Food by sharing the title of the book I am currently reading. This time, instead, I am showing you a book I just made. In January, I attended a nice workshop taught by artist Jill Berry where I learned to make a Spontaneous Deconstructed Journal. When I left for Austin to attend the LongHouse Food Revival, I carried in my bag a set of pages and various writing and drawing tools. I wrote and drew and marked the pages while I was in Austin and also collected material to add to them later. A few days ago, I completed the pages and bound the journal: voilà!
Almost everything I did, saw and listened to during my stay in Austin is recorded in the journal, so in the future, I can go back to it to remind myself of events, people, places, words.
And now on to the business of the day: I am hereby announcing a new edition of Novel Food, the culinary/literary event that Lisa of Champaign Taste and I started in the fall of 2007. I am now carrying the torch. I am a bookworm and this event is really close to my heart as it brings together two of my passions, as does the other lovely culinary/literary event I am involved with, Cook the Books.
Every edition of Novel Food is a little voyage of literary discovery, as you learn about literary works new to you, and it is also a delightful banquet made up of the literary-inspired dishes contributed by the event’s participants.
I hope you will join the party. I am looking forward to learning about a published literary work (a novel, novella, short story, memoir, bio, poem, etc.) that provided you with culinary inspiration.
Here are the simple rules for participating in Novel Food:
- Prepare a dish of your choosing that has a connection to a published literary work (novel, novella, short story, memoir, bio, poem).
- Publish a post about it on your blog by the end of Sunday March 24, 2013 (midnight, Pacific Time), referencing the Novel Food event. Include a link to this announcement. If you wish, you can use the Novel Food logo.
- Send an e-mail to simosite AT mac DOT com and include your name, blog name and blog address, and a permanent link to your post. Please, include the words “Novel Food” in the email subject, so I can more easily retrieve the message in my inbox.
- Non-English submissions are fine. If possible, include an introduction in English.
If you don’t have a blog, send me an email telling us about the dish, the literary work that inspired it, and, if you have it, a picture of what you made: I will add it to the roundup as well.
Note #1: If you don’t receive an answer to your email or a comment on your post within two days of sending me the email, please contact me again: sometimes email messages get lost in cyberspace.
Note #2: If you follow this link, you will be able to browse my portion of the roundup of all previous editions. In relevant posts, you will find a link to Lisa’s portion of the roundup.
Very cool-looking journal. Even cooler that you made it! 😉
Yay to Novel Food!
I am looking forward to the edition of “Novel Food”!
Thank you for for the link to “Spontaneous Deconstructed Journal” – terrific idea! Your journal looks great!
Abbraccione,
Merisi
Thanks for the journal inspiration, perfect for an upcoming trip to Iceland!
Thank you, Paz. I hope you’ll join the party.
Grazie, Merisi 🙂
Ciao Debra. Interesting destination. I have never been, but I am fond of Northern countries, so I suspect I would like it.
Love the photo of your journal Simona! How fun!
LL
Prospective participants might find food for thought (pun intended) in this book I recently found at the library: The Hungry ear: poems of food and drink, edited by Kevin Young.
Here for example is a snippet from a poem about ossobuco:
I love the sound of the bone against the plate/and the fortress-like look of it/lying before me in a moat of risotto,/the meat soft as the leg of an angel/who has lived a purely airborne existence.
On a less transcendent note, there is also an ode to pork. Can’t argue with that.
Thanks, Lori Lynn!
Thank you Cynthia for your note. Two other people have mentioned this book to me, so I am aware of its existence and I am very curious to take a look at it. That’s a nice quote. It reminds me of Milan.
Yay! Book and recipe all set to go!
Your book is pretty nifty–I may have to give that project a try myself!
Excellent! I’m on board… Love your journal, too. Sweet!
Love this idea, I may put one together for recipes with drawings of ingredients as I like to doodle 🙂 We love your site, keep up the great work, thanks so much for all you share.
Simona I love the way your journal turned out! And feel honored to watch it in the making. I will be joining the March Novel Foods too! cathy
Ciao Ruhama. I am sure you’d like the journal project. You are so organized! I can’t wait to see what you chose for us this time.
Great, Rachel!
Drawings of ingredients sound very nice. Looking forward to see them.
Thanks, Cathy. You are in there too: I have a drawing of the table during the Saturday workshop. I am so glad you are planning to participate!
Ciao Simona, che bella iniziativa questa del libro che ispira un piatto! Io adoro leggere,ora sto giusto leggendo “Vino, patate e mele rosse”…chissà
A presto 🙂
Ciao Lucia. Un titolo davvero interessante: sembra una sfida. Che cosa puoi preparare con questi tre ingredienti? Se riesci a partecipare mi farebbe molto piacere.
Non so ancora, sto aspettando l’ispirazione…ma la ricetta può essere qualcosa ispirata anche da uno solo degli ingredienti del libro?
Ciao Lucia. Temo che la mia domanda abbia confuso le idee: perdonami, la mia non voleva essere una richiesta. Il termine ispirazione e’ volutamente lasciato imprecisato nel senso che l’ispirazione puo’ prendere la forma che vuole: da un piatto descritto ad un ingrediente ad una localita’ ad un’associazione di idee. Spero che questo chiarisca un po’ l’evento. Fammi pure tutte le domande che vuoi.