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