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Letterpress and the Restaurant: Patricia Curtan’s Menus for Chez Panisse
It has been over 40 years since the legendary chef Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. While the restaurant became known for its single price-fixe menu it also set the stage for the Eat Local movement which would heavily influence the mind-set of many chefs, restaurants, and farmers around the world.Fortunately, during the early years there was a member of the kitchen staff who was an artist who also dabbled in letterpress printing.For Waters "saw the beauty and aesthetic of fine printing as a way to communicate at the outset of the diners experience the care and attention...
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- Bookflake - A Snowflake made out of red books via Paul Octavious
A Wild Edition of "The Wild Swans"
The Wild Swans recounts the story of a princess who sets out to rescue her eleven brothers who have been turned into swans by their wicked stepmother and forced to fly away. The tale was first published in 1838 in the compilation Fairy Tales Told for Children. New Collection by Hans Christian Anderson. An amazing new wordless version of the famous tale is now available. Illustrated by noted toy designer Thomas Aquinas Maguire and published by Simply Read Books. Maguire has transformed the literary tale into a unfolding visual feast. Bound accordion style the book extends to over 60 feet! The...
A Determined Reader and Book Patrol at 5
from the 2008 production Traces from the French Canadian theater company Les 7 doigts de la main.It has been a little over 5 years since I got a crazy idea to start blogging about books and their place in our world. The pace of change in the book universe has not slowed one bit since my first post and neither have the options for sharing and responding to the plethora of information about books that permeate the internet. While the pace of blogging has slowed somewhat recently it is not for lack of engagement nor interest - the availability of...