[Sca-cooks] question: Medieval restaurant at Pennsic

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 10:22 AM 7/19/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Adamantius wrote:
>
>>  > Would you be remembering The Battlefield Bakery? Run by... ummm...
>>>  I'm blanking out... Mistress Marion of Eddinstowe, of the Barony of
>>  > Carolingia?
>
>and Brangwayna replied:
>
>>Yes, that would be it.  It's an old memory, unfortunately...I miss them.
>
>So do we. My kids especially miss those sweet pasties. But Marian 
>didn't have the energy to keep it up.
>
>But her sucess for some years is evidence that it is not impossible, 
>as 'Lainie  suggested, to do at least a limited version of a period 
>cookshop at Pennsic.
>
>Elizabeth/Betty Cook

Not impossible, but as you noted, she did give it up.

I would also hazard a guess that it would harder now to *start* such an
endeavor that it would have been to continue it *then*.

I'm too lazy to it right now, but I think that the archives have quite a
list of the difficulties we encountered while exploring the possibilities.

'Lainie
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