SC - Platina

[Mary Morman]

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Alderton, Philippa wrote:
> Elaina wrote:
> 
> >And is anyone planning on coming to the cooking conference to meet Dr.
> Milham in January?  Let me know! <
> 
> What cooking conference, where?
> 
> Phlip

Thanks for asking, Phlip!

Serve It Forth! presents

European Cooking from Rome to the Renaissance

January 15-17, 2000
Colorado Springs, Colorado

Guests of Honor
Caroline Yeldham
Dr. Mary Ella Milham

 Guests
Our "Living History" guest of honor, Caroline Yeldham, is flying over from
England to speak at the conference.  She has spent the last several
summers running the kitchen for Kentwell Castle's annual living history
week.  While keeping up a running commentary for tourists and visitors,
she prepares authentic meals in a real castle kitchen using period cooking
implements and ingredients - and then sits the entire reenactment crew
down to two meals a day in the castle hall.  Caroline will be bringing us
a slide presentation and a body of tried-and-true recipes as well as some
wonderful stories about what it's like to actually run a period kitchen.

Our author guest of honor is Professor Mary Ella Milham from the
University of New Brunswick.  Professor Milham's magnificent edition of
Platina's De Honesta Voluptate Et Valetudine (On Right Pleasure and Good
Health) was brought out as part of the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and
Studies series in March of 1998.  We are looking forward to hearing Dr.
Milham speak on her work with the various Platina manuscripts, and on the
intricacies of translating Latin cooking terms used in manuscripts from
Roman times to the Renaissance.

For the latest information keep an eye on our web page at:  

http://oldcolo.com/~memorman/cookcon.html

Where do we stay?
We are negotiating a special conference rate at an excellent hotel in
downtown Colorado Springs.  Some of the conference activities will be held
at the hotel, others will be on the campus of Colorado College and at St.
Marys Cathedral - all within a mile of the conference hotel.  We will be
arranging shuttles and ride sharing as necessary.

Whats to eat?
There will be two feasts - one on Saturday night and one on Sunday night -
and an Elizabethan buffet lunch on Monday.   Plan to wear Renaissance
costume for the feasts, and be ready for madrigals, musicians, and courtly
dancing.  Those looking for hands-on experience can sign up to work in the
kitchen on either feast.  Feast tickets will be sold separately, and each
feast will be limited to 50 diners.  The Elizabethan buffet will be part
of the conference for everyone.

Transportation
We strongly advise that you make your plane reservations for the Colorado
Springs Airport, a twenty minute drive from the conference site with a
free shuttle to the hotel. Denver Airport is an hour and a half away over
the 7000 foot Monument Divide.  Contact us for directions if youre coming
by car.

Call for Papers
If you would like to present a paper or give a class contact Mary Morman
(memorman at oldcolo.com) with an outline and synopsis of your class or
paper, and a brief c.v.  Audio-visual and hands-on cooking presentations
are also welcome.

Cost
Membership in the conference is $50 until December 1st 1999; and $75 after
December 1st or at the door.  Dealers tables (which include a membership)
are available for $75. Separate tickets for the Saturday and Sunday night
feasts are $20 each.  Each feast is limited to 50 tickets. Make checks out
to "Serve It Forth!" and mail to:
Mary Morman
1245 Allegheny Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80919

Whats to do?
The conference program will feature classes, papers, and presentations on
European cooking from Rome to the Renaissance.  There will be some
hands-on workshops in modern kitchens.  Topics will range from historical
research to the intricacies of planning an SCA or madrigal feast for
several hundred guests.  Classes will run from 10am to 5pm on Saturday and
Sunday, and from 10am to 3pm on Monday.  A schedule of classes and
activities will be posted on the web site in August.

Is this an SCA event?
No.  This will be a conference on food, cooking, and foodways in
pre-modern Europe. We expect it to be of interest to many people in the
SCA, but it is not sponsored by the SCA.  Feel free to bring garb and
feast gear for the evening feasts, but plan on street clothes and your
20th-century persona for classes and conference activities.

What about Y2K?
Personally, Im not expecting a lot of trouble from the millennium bug.
Two weeks should be plenty of time to resolve any isolated air traffic
problems or ATM outages.  And I promise to keep paper records of
everything in case of a computer crash.

January in Colorado!  Wont it be snowing?
Possibly, but not likely.  Colorado Springs is on the Front Range of the
Rocky Mountains - thats where the flat plains roll in from Kansas and
break against the foot of Pikes Peak.  We are at a high altitude (about
6000 feet), but most of the snow comes in from the west and drops on the
mountains of western Colorado (where all the ski slopes are).  Average
weather in Colorado Springs in mid-January is cold nights and bright,
sunny days in the 40s or 50s. 
 


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