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This past weekend, Don Lindgren and Samantha Hoyt Lindgren, owners of culinary bookstore Rabelais in Portland, Maine, left for an eight-day stay in Barcelona, courtesy of Actar D publishers. The Lindgrens won the publisher's display contest for their in-store art installation Food For Thought, Thought for Food, a literary tribute to Ferran Adria. The installation, by Portland-based artists Jenna Crowder and Claire Houston, featured one-of-a-kind nature prints of various fruits and vegetables produced at Pickwick Independent Press, a fine art printing facility in Portland. As part of the installation, a short film ran on a screen in the store, and for the opening reception guests were invited to have their photo taken with selected food quotes. A short multi media presentation of the event can be seen at the Rabelais website.