SC - Culinary Demo Ideas

[Christine A Seelye-King]

It sounds like you have a wonderful list of stuff for folks to do, and I
would say you have the Short Attention Span Theatre covered.  We found
that families (or individuals, or groups of two, or whatever) would spend
about 5 - 10 minutes with the Old World/New World game, and would get in
a lot of discussion about foods, and the myths will come out in those
discussions.  As far as short attention span goes, it was usually the
thing folks spent the longest on, but after they were done, they did not
spend much time looking at other stuff we had.  Except for the occasional
few, who ususally end up coming to an SCA event ;)  , a bunch of
discussion about the food usually doesn't get them excited like the game
does.  
So, don't try to do too much, (I am assuming you have other folks
bringing armor and embroidery, etc., to talk to them about) I think you
will be suprised at how much time they will spend on the game.  
Good Luck, 
	Mistress Christianna MacGrain
	happy barker of the OW/NW game at a couple of our demos now

> note that we have a few issues to work around:
> *  no open fires - in fact cooking with fire of any kind is a bit 
> dubious
> *  we're out in a big parking lot under a day shade & it gets very 
> windy
> *  no distributing food other than cookie like objects because of 
> health
> dept regulations.
> *  the attendees have a fairly short attention span :->
> 
> 
> what we're already planning:
> *  Madrone's now famous NewWorld/OldWorld food game
> *  A sandwich board with medieval recipes translated into modern 
> english (we
> specifically pick foods with modern equivalents like apple pie & 
> macaroni to
> show that they ate familiar foods)
> *  a bunch of foods like barley & spices & the like in thier natural 
> vs
> processed forms, with some info on what it takes to get between the 
> two.
> *  a display of a medieval table setting with a bread trencher - for 
> some
> reason the trencher is fascinating to people :->
> *  churning butter
> 
> I definately want to have a "medieval food myths" debunking demo of 
> some
> kind, any bright ideas?   something interactive would be better.
> 
> Any other things folks have done?  any suggestions for refining or 
> adding to
> the plans above?
> 
> 
> Thanks for any ideas/feedback,
> 
> Eden
> ____________________________________________________
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> 
> Eden Rain
> raghead at liripipe.com
> 
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