[Sca-cooks] Leeds 2005 Food History Symposium, Etc.

[Elise Fleming]

Greetings!  The next Leeds Food History Symposium will be on Saturday,
April 16, in York, England.  The topic is tentatively on baking.  Ivan Day
is apparently coordinating the Symposium in 2005 and 2006.  The 2006 topic
hasn't been decided but discussions are going around about molds and things
made with molds.  

Ivan Day has a lovely website, in case you have not seen it
(www.historicfood.com).  There are lovely pictures and some recipes,
although the site isn't finished.  In my opinion, this is the type of
authenticity we should aspire to.  He offers classes in historic cookery
and the pictures of the baked goods might give some idea of at least one of
the sessions for next year's Symposium.

 I've "bitten the bullet" and signed up for the May 2005 course on
sugarwork and confectionery and hope to attend the Symposium the month
before, which "forces" me to stay in England for 5 weeks.  Hampton Court
will probably be doing Stuart or later (Georgian??) cookery for 2005, but
one of the historic cooks (he's not historic, he cooks historically!) said
they should be back on Tudor cookery in 2006.

Alys Katharine
Elise Fleming
alysk at ix.netcom.com