On Tuesday 13 September 2011 the Cambridge Center for Material Texts hosted a one day conference entitled, appetizingly,
Eating Words: Text, Image, Food.
We at Plurabelle have always thought highly of the metaphor which aligns food and printed matter. We have called the core of our website
the book kitchen, and hold a typographical crocodile (in a font)
which barks "Eat More Books" at our clients.
To celebrate the occasion of the Eating Words conference, and to emphasize our ongoing interest in borderland between eating and reading, we have issued an invitation
to Plurabelle Edible Book, 1, taking place on Monday 12 September at 6pm in our bookshop. Reaching for the area beyond metaphors, the event actually involved
the eating of a book.
To prepare and measure the electricity which is generated by this metaphor, the following gallery has been compiled. Its purpose is to emphasize the radical nature
of a metaphorical tradition which still carries a hidden and scandalous payload.
