[Sca-cooks] Re: MetalSmiths Symposium -

[Carol Eskesen Smith]

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So make it a biannual event.  Won't be the first one, or the only one.  Locally, we have an event held at the autocrat's whim (whenever they recover form the last one).  It's fun, but you usually need a red or white belt to play in their kitchen.  (Fighting Cooks of Ostgardr get special dispensation, but I joined WELL before ladies fought, and I'm too old, too fat, and MUCH too disinclined to try, now...)  So I simply attend, and have a good time.
Regards,
Brekke

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From: Jim and Andi
Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 11:30 PM
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Hey I know the Lady who's doing the Indian embassy at the Crossroads
Faire... that event sounds SO COOL!!

Madhavi

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Hej!
    As I crawl out from under the press of outrageous mundane life, I would
like to also include my own comments on the fine job that was done by both
Phlip & Vincenzo!
    Vincenzo really did a great job on getting the feast done.  He had
limited facilities & time available to do the feast with & came out on top!
I really enjoyed the Chicken Verjuice (a new taste experience) & the
Zabaglione was even better the next day (it was a substantial portion of my
breakfast & contributed greatly to keeping the Autocrat mellow the third day
of the event)!  If he ever needs any help in the kitchen at an event I am
his to command.
    I didn't have to worry about how things were going down in the
Blacksmith's Grove, because Phlip was in control of it all there, I only
passed through because I wanted to see what everyone else was doing.  We
even managed to keep the site manager happy after the event was over he came
up & told me we could use the site for the same type of event any time I
wanted to run it (unfortunately the Canton has decided to pass on doing it
again next year-maybe the year after & some of the other nearby groups have
had rumblings of doing more metalsmithing classes).
    Any problems with the event were likely my fault.  I severely overloaded
myself (Autocrat, cook 1 meal & teaching 2 classes, while working a 40 hour
work week & attending classes 16 + hours/week) & my Staff, especially my
Cooks, Reservation's Clerk & Web Mistress.
YIS,
Olaf of Trollhiemsfjord
who is only scheduled to cook a feast for a Shakespeare Play (based on
Eating Shakespeare & Dinning with William Shakespeare-any suggestions)  &
run the Viking Embassy at the Cross Roads Faire event in Carolingia next
year.

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> Brekke asked:
>
> >      From the sound of it, you didn't really have much time to prepare
for
> this.  From Barleycorn to Metalsmith's?  Or was it Barleycorn to
> Metalsmith's a year later?
>
> No, unfortunately, it was from this year's Barleycorn. Olaf and I were
> tearing our hair out, trying to come up with a Feast cook. Olaf had posted
> on Cook's List and EK List, and I ran into Vincenzo at Barleycorn and
> discussed it with him.
>
> The funny thing is, both Olaf and I are Cooks as well, but neither of us
> could do feast- he was Autocrat, and I was smithing coordinator, CiC, and
> teaching an all-day class. Furthermore, two of the teaching smiths were
from
> Ohio, and two were brand new to SCA, so I really HAD to spend time with
> them. As it was, Olaf and I did a breakfast apiece- we were a bit busy ;-)
>
> Vincenzo stepped in and did a wonderful job, under the circumstances- I
> honestly don't know how to thank him.
>
> There were two things about this event which really stood out in my mind,
as
> Good Things Happening. One was encouraging Vincenzo to do Feast, and
> watching him do it so well, and encouraging Aaron Silver, a young man who
> had never been to an SCA event before, or taught smithing before, to
teach,
> and watching him do so well.
>
> It was truly a wonderful event guys, the best I've ever been to, including
> the great Barleycorn event I'd gone to a couple of weeks before. I'm
having
> a GOOD time over here in the EK ;-)
>
> Phlip

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