SC - RE: The Madrone Culinary Guild

[E. Rain]

Hello from Eden, a member of said guild & former guildhead.
Ilia asked about the Guild & our 1979 pamphlet "The Beste of the Lotte".

As Adamantius wrote, the Barony of Madrone encompasses King County, WA aka
the greater Seattle area.
The Madrone Culinary Guild has been around since AS XII  researching
medieval food, putting on banquets, printing cookbooks & having lots of fun.

"the Beste of the Lotte" is one of our older pamphlets as you can see from
the date & no longer in circulation. Many of the recipes in Beste are in
fact from period, but may violate copyright since some of those recipes cite
books like "Pleyn Delit" & "To the Kings Taste" as their sources...
We try to be better about that whole copyright thing with our present
publications :->

Also many of the recipes are just modern "medieval-oid" recipes often
created by guildmembers, which while *quite* tasty are not something we
would publish these days.  Just goes to show, for those of us who tend to be
pessimistic about the SCA's levels of authenticity, that things can and do
improve over time, albeit slowly :->

For those who don't already know, we currently produce a series of small
pamphlets called the Feudal Gourmets:

An Apician Feast - Our pamphlet on Roman cookery $2

A Weekend at the Staggering Hedgehog Inn - a weekends worth of
English/French Medieval Recipes  $3

Fall Inn - a second smaller collection of English/French medieval food $2

A Culinary Reference Manual - our pamphlet of what foods are period, how to
reconstruct recipes etc, $3 Freshly updated!

we hope to have various others available shortly.
please contact me if you're interested in further information.

Eden - pamphlet coordinator and sometime pessimist :->

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Practice safe eating - always use condiments

Eden Rain
raghead at liripipe.com