[Ansteorra-announce] ALEXANDRIAN SYMPOSIUM 4: FOOD AND FESTIVAL

[Carolle]

The Alexandrian Company is pleased to announce THE 4TH ALEXANDRIAN
SYMPOSIUM to be held SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 2001 CE in SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

The theme for the 4th Alexandrian Symposium is FOOD AND FESTIVAL.  This
includes such various subjects as feasting, fasting, holidays,
Lent/Mardi Gras, food in religion and ritual, food in literature, the
politics of food, period food sales and merchanting, spices, table
manners, eating habits of various cultures and any other subjects
pertaining to the cultivation, consumption or restriction of food prior
to 1600 AD.  As this is a scholarly lecture and presentation symposium,
classes will NOT include cooking workshops.  Instructors, however, are
allowed to bring appropriate samples of period food for their classes –
as long as they bring enough for everyone! ;-)

THIS IS AN OFFICIAL CALL FOR CLASS PROPOSALS!!!

Topics we would like to see classes on include:

Lent and its history;
Foods mentioned in period literature;
Influence of food on politics and history;
Effect of New World foods on European cooking and cuisine;
Period festivals-- especially Easter, Christmas, Mardi Gras/Carnival,
May Day, etc;
Jewish food & festivals;
Muslim food & festivals;
Period cooking methods and utensils;
Survey of period bread;
Recipe redaction, to include information on locating the medieval
recipes and the
research techniques needed to transform this into a modern recipe;
Research and archaeology for early period foods;
Symbolic food - how food is used in an art-historical sense in the
medieval "language" of
paintings of the saints etc;
Famine;
Food preservation & storage;
and anything else you would find interesting and entertaining.


Submit class proposals or ideas to karenmoon at msn.com.  They can also be
submitted by regular mail to Karen Moon, 114 Conway Dr., San Antonio,
TX  78209.

Further information on the 4th Alexandrian Symposium will soon be
available on the Alexandrian website (link) and in upcoming
announcements.  Questions?  Write Carolle Ternus at cternus at texas.net.