[Sca-cooks] Cook's Symposium 2004 - Ideas to Comment On Digest, Vol 14, Issue 27

[Martina C Grasse]

Hi,
on digest (and with colicky email), so checking in late:

>Lending Library  - I hope to be there to teach and will try to bring a 
few of my facsimile sources with me, though a couple of them are old 
and fragile... 

>Spice/Herb/Supply Delivery - I second the idea, would it be possible to 
get the Pepperers there as a merchant?  Im a hands-on kinda gal and 
would love the chance to shop their stock in person.

>Road Trips/Guided Tours - I like the idea with a couple of thoughts... 
the event is only one day, and I bet that day will be stuffed full of 
wonderful classes that I wont want to miss for a field trip... BUT 
since I will be flying in, having the tours on the day before of after 
might be a thought. (and attractive to this out-o-towner as flying in 
for 40 hours seems almost silly)

Just my zwei Pfennige worth
Gwen Cat




>Message: 6
>Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:53:55 +0000
>From: iasmin at comcast.net
>Subject: [Sca-cooks] Cook's Symposium 2004 - Ideas to Comment On
>Greetings!
>One of the things we try to do each year when we host the Cook's 
Symposium we host in our area is to offer up a little something 
different each time for people. Right now we're toying with a few ideas 
that we'd like to get your opinions on to see if they seem feasible or 
even wanted.
>Lending Library - We've found that finding and sharing sources on 
various cooking topics presents a real challenge to the beginning cook. 
To make information more readily available to our researching brethren, 
we're toying with the idea of making a number of texts available near a 
photocopier so that people can copy the relevant sections they need to 
complete the research they're most interested in. Some of the sources 
may be books, others papers we've collected over the years, and some 
may be feast write-ups that we've found particularly useful. Would you 
find this kind of availability of information useful?
>Spice/Herb/Supply Delivery - Because not everyone can get to Pennsic, 
we're also toying with the idea of taking Pennsic pre-orders for those 
spices that they Pepperer's Guild sells. The idea would be for us to 
take prepayment on those items you need and have us do the shopping for 
you at Pennsic because you can't make it. We'd then have those pre-paid 
orders available at the Cook's Symposium for you to pick up. We could 
also make available a limited supply of other items from the stores we 
have available to us. Things like dried herbs, candied seeds, rose 
water, orange flower water, verijus, and like items could all be 
considered. We even know of some commercially availabel marzipan if 
people would be interested. If we were to consider this pre-paid 
delivery service, what would you be most interested in? Would you find 
it useful?
>Road Trips/Guided Tours - In the middle of winter, the idea of further 
road travel might be a little daunting. But there are a few local 
businesses to the event site that might be of use to cooks and 
researchers. Would you be interested in leaving the site to see these 
places or do you typically spend most of your time on site?
>Please let us know your opinions on these ideas. We want to make the 
Cook's Symposium the best one to date.
>Iasmin
>Iasmin de Cordoba, Baroness Roaring Wastes, Middle Kingdom
>Class Coordinator, Cook's Symposium 2004
>http://home.comcast.net/~iasmin/2004cooks/
>