Thursday, March 20, 2014

Taste of Fiction

Another awesome St. Louis food event!  A Taste of Fiction was a fundraiser for the St. Louis Public Library Foundation, and they did the best possible thing they could have done, by also bringing in the food community.


Supporters (including Letter J and yours truly) got canapes and drinks to tide them over, but the real treat were the cakes (not for eating! -- although there were mini cupcakes as a consolation prize).  The cakes were lit-inspired creations put together by some of the best pastry chefs in St. Louis.  It would have been a bit gosh for me to be taking pictures, but there were a number of professional photographers there, so I'll rip off what I can from the interwebs (really from StL Today) for your viewing pleasure:

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Jungle Book (and I think the night's winning cake, not that winners were picked) by Rudyard Kipling

 Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Twenty-Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen

The only possible addition I can make to these pictures is to remind you that this was all set in the main hall of the lovely Central Library.  If you haven't seen it, you need to.

2 comments:

  1. Did you get to actually eat anything? You do so many cool things!

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    1. We did not get to eat the fancy cakes, although with all those people breathing on them, I'm not sure I would've wanted to.

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