SC - Re: Welcome to sca-cooks

[ChannonM at aol.com]

Greetings everyone,

I am Hauviette d'Anjou a 15C French woman who follows the writings of 
Christine de Pizan. I have also been known to show up at as Corcain Mor Nic 
Diarmaid, a very visible early period Celt (she likes her spear). 

I have been participating in SCA activities for about 8 years now, and have 
been active in cooking for about 4-5 of them. I have worked on several 
periods( Celtic,Viking,  Romano British, Roman, French 14-15C, English 
14-15-16 C) I redact most of my own recipes for feasts and have probably done 
in the neighbourhood of a dozen feasts(100-200 people). I love to help others 
with their endeavors, and have begun a Cook's Guild in my shire (Starleaf 
Gate-Midrealm Windsor -Ont.Canada). I don't pretend to know a whole lot, but 
I enjoy what I do and work hard at it, and I like to help others do the same.

Speaking of which, we are holding a Cook's Symposium on Nov 20, 1999 here in 
our shire. I will be sending in the announcement to the Pale shortly and will 
be willing to email it to anyone who emails me personally. It should be alot 
of fun.

I was on this list before, but couldn't keep up with all the postings (I had 
my 3rd son in 5 years last December, whew!)

Currently, I am working on some unconventional theories about Roman cooking 
and recipes (mainly those from Apicius) and the relationship to later 
periods. I am trying to find 2 things.
1- Taillevant's work is two parts. The first part was based on earlier works 
11 C manuscript. I'm trying to get an English version (cook I am, linguist I 
am not ;]) of the first part of Taillevant or the earlier French manuscript. 
I have an English translation of Taillevant, however the writer (James 
Prescott) has mixed the two parts of T and I can't distinguish one from the 
other. If anyone has any leads here I would be very grateful.
 
Secondly,
I am trying to find a Smithsonian article regarding the tracing back of a 
Spanish Gatzpacho recipe to the Roman period. Again, if anyone has a lead on 
this I would be indebted to them.

I hope I can be of service in return.

Hauviette
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