SC - Re: Pennsic People/pot luck

[marilyn traber]

In a message dated 98-05-05 13:37:32 EDT, you write:

<< What a fine incentive to do research. What areas are these? Where and when
 is your persona from? >>
 
East and Central Europe.  My persona is Conquest era Magyar, which is around
895 CE.  For that specific time there are vague references to the Magyars on
raids eating some sort of stew.

<<Are you saying that you do feasts using modern recipes from your persona's
area, on the theory that they are closer to accurate than period recipes from
several thousand miles away? >>

In some senses yes.  I do Hungarian food from modern recipes, not necessarily
because i feel it is closer to what they might have eaten but because I know
it is from that area.  As we've discussed here before there are a number of
sources cited by George Lang that are either in period or published just
outside of period of Hungarian recipes.  The problem is getting copies, and
then finding a way to translate them.  I don't know Latin, my German is rusty
at best, and I remember enough Hungarian to find the correct restroom and not
order liver at a restaraunt.   

<<That is a perfectly reasonable choice--but it still leaves you with the
option of being as authentic as your available information permits.>>

Which is the other aspect of my problem.  There is very little really good
useful information about garb, cooking and life in general in period for
Hungary.  There is even less for my period.  When I first chose my persona I
knew the area it would be from, I knew the Magyars were nomads that settled in
the Carpathian Basin, and I knew both men and women wore tunics and trousers.
Through a lot of research and the wonder of the internet I have learned much
more but I still haven't found out much about some of my areas of interest.
Soon I actually hope to have a picture of a reconstruction of Magyar women's
garb, after almost 8 years with this persona.  Someday I may try my hand at
researching period Hungarian cooking, but first I want to finish the research
I'm doing now.

Noemi
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