[Sca-cooks] Good morning from Greece

[Stefan li Rous]

Greetings Athenaeus,

You sent your message to the SCA-Cooks maillist. I suspect that you may
have gotten the address from some of the messages in my Florilegium files
(the address is given in my sig. line below).

Anyway, the SCA is an international organisation studying the European
Middle Ages and surrounding cultures. While most of the folks are in the
United States and Canada, we do have groups in Austraila and Europe. I
don't know if there is a group in Greece at this time or not.

The SCA main website is: www.sca.org
I think there is a method on that site to find out where the closest
groups to you are.

You might be interested in joining the SCA-Cooks mail list as well.
We have a lot of folks on it who are not in the SCA, including a
cookbook author in Iceland who has written several books on historic
Iceland cooking. Others in the SCA who have authored more books on
medieval cooking. We also have folks that are just learning cooking,
modern as well as medieval.

I can be a busy list and we do sometimes get off of food topics, but
I have found it to be a fun list and I've learned quite a lot about
cooking, both period and modern, since I joined it in 1997. The
easiest way to sign up is through the mail list page on the
Ansteorra (one of the SCA kingdoms) webpage, www.ansteorra.org

I, and the list I think, would love to hear any information you
have about medieval Greecian cooking. I have, unfortunately, very
little info on this in my Florilegium files. Most folks just say
refer to the cooking of the Byzantine Empire.

We have discussed dolmas (the grape leave wrapped foods). I think
I finally got info on them being made before 1600 AD (the nominal
cut-off date for the SCA) but not of grape leaves.

I've gone ahead and cc'ed this to the SCA-Cooks list, in case anyone
there has anything to add.

Stefan


> From: "Athenaeus" <vefthi at otenet.gr>
> To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
> Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 09:29:37 +0300
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Good morning from Greece
> Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
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> Good morning from Greece.
>
> Looking for Arabic recipes yesterday, I came upon the site of your society.
>
> I am very sad that the distance doesn't allow me to join you.
>
> Being a professional historian myself and coming from a country with such a heritage, it would made me very happy If I could have my persona and participate in your activities.
>
> Never mind :-) I enjoy your sites and writings, anyway.
>
> My hobby -well it's becoming a professional  lately- is the History of Food. I am an avid collector of old cook-books and my collection goes back many many centuries.
>
> I hope I can participate in the discussions. I think I will spend some time reading mostly.
>
> I just wanted to introduce myself and express my joy for being here.
>
> Regards
>
> Athenaeus-Greece

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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
   Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas          stefan at texas.net
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****