[Sca-cooks] Cook's Symposium 2004 - Ideas to Comment On

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Dear Lady,
Firstly, let me congratulate you on having the energy, patience and courage to autocrat such an event.  You have my deep admiration.  I know how daunting something like this can be...having autocrated a Known World Herald's Symposium some years back!

Secondly, I think your ideas are grand.  We have had the lending library concept at our Kingdom universities for several years, and it has been a great success.  I am planning, at this point, to come to the Symposium and will bring whatever books I can to contribute.  So that I don't try to bring books that others might already be bringing, I will try to provide you with a list of what I have and you can, if you will, let me know which I should bring.  I'll try to get the list off to you as soon as I can.

Purchasing the spices is also a good idea.  Have you considered contacting the Pepperer's Guild to find out if some of them, possibly located in the western areas of the EK might not consider coming and bringing their wares?  Fortunately I have an apprentice who will be shopping for me this year as I won't be making the trip to Pennsic.

I also think that any trips to merchants who might have things we might be interested in would be a good idea as well.  You know...if this thing keeps growing, you might have to expand over into a second day!

I wish you the best ofluck and look forward to seeing you then.

Kiri


> 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/
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