SC - Culinary Demo Ideas

[Par Leijonhufvud]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, E. Rain wrote:

> You can always tell when I'm avoiding something, I suddenly get prolific in
> my postings :->

Of course, Usenet/mailinglists are as interesting when you havce a
deadline, as they are boring when you have nothing to do.

> *  the attendees have a fairly short attention span :->

College students?

> I definately want to have a "medieval food myths" debunking demo of some
> kind, any bright ideas?   something interactive would be better.

Perhaps not serious: have a piece of spoiled meat, and and ask them if
they think it is *possible* to spice that up so it appeared edible.

More serious: make something both correctly spiced and horribly
overspiced. Diskcuss in reference to existing records on usage and
prices.

A nice and interactive thing I have seen done -- but your lack of
facilities/permits might rule it out -- is let them make their own
bread. Have a bowl of (slightly sticky) dought, more flour and a hot
bakestone, and someone to help and show them. Let them eat their bread
with the churned butter, skyr, or plain. Since you are not able to do it
right (but set it up right to show them how it would have been done) you
might use a BBQ with the slab on top, or one of the electric griddles.
This is iron age more then the middle ages proper, but also give you the
oppourtunity to discuss the mix or grains/legumes used in many early
breads.

/UlfR

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Par Leijonhufvud                                      parlei at algonet.se
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