[Sca-cooks] Re: Period foods and all that jazz....

[Sue Clemenger]

Hi, Olwen!
I'm not thinking much about period food at the moment--kinda taking 
February off, since I did a feast in January.  Which reminds me...I've 
never done a feast writeup! I don't have time this morning (gotta go to 
work eventually...*sigh*), but I'll work on it tonight.  I did a 
two-course Catalan feast, using Brighid's translations in the flori-thingy.
In March, our barony will be having its Spring Feast, and the head cook 
is doing something Italian.  I haven't heard anything more than that 
about it, though.
Ummm...it occurs to me that I've got a couple of things coming up in 
March that I could ask y'all about:
1.  Artemisian Coronation is in March, and I'm hoping to travel to it (9 
hrs away on possibly-iffy roads).  From the event announcement, I don't 
think there are any provisions made for food, either a sideboard or a 
feast (there's some sort of dinner break).  I'm thinking that I'd like 
to pack a picnic lunch to take with me.  Does anyone have any ideas of 
what kinds of german dishes would be suitable for this, keeping in mind 
the traveling time and lack of reheating facilities? (I'm thinking 
german because I think the event's theme is late-period germanic.  I think.)
2.  During the day at the afore-mentioned Spring Feast, I am going to be 
hosting a "Fiber Arts Tea," with the intention of promoting all the 
different fiber-related arts and crafts practiced by our baronial 
members and guests.  I would like to provide light refreshments--sort of 
a light sideboard.  We don't need anything too substantial, because 
there is a lunch, and there will be the feast later.  Other than the 
florilegium, and one Madrone Cooking Guild pamphlet, I really don't have 
any resources for period Italian cooking, let alone nibbley stuff.  Any 
ideas?
--maire, who guesses she's thinking about food more than she'd thought!



Olwen the Odd wrote:

> Does anyone on this list still talk about food??  I know we are a group 
> of friends, and that even I have gone astray, but I don't know how all 
> this non foodie talk has grown to a chat room.  Anyone besides Bright 
> Hills doing a feast this weekend?  Come on, there is the illusions feast 
> being planned, what else?