Mostly OT, but not all OOP Re: [Sca-cooks] marinated vegetables and transporting pavilions

[Sue Clemenger]

Bless you, Stefan, I'm quite familiar with the making, packing, and 
handling of tentage.  I've made quite a few, both mundane and SCA, large 
and small.  I've even helped haul and set up the baronial pavilion that 
I actually made.  It's just beyond my physical capabilities right now. 
Not to mention my monetary ones.
I dunno what specific effects marinating has on veggies, other than 
making them taste good.  There wasn't enough vinegar for them to be 
considered "pickled," so it wouldn't count as a technique for preserving 
them, and I doubt it has the same tenderizing effect as it would on 
meat.  They were just put into my email as one example of something 
quite unperiod, but unusual enough and tasty enough that they showed up 
at feasts long after we knew better. ;o)
"Woven into the Earth," by Else Ostergard, is a book just newly 
translated into English.  Finally! Fabric and textile and clothing geeks 
like me have literally been waiting *years* for the English version to 
come out! It is, indeed, about medieval textiles, in part, but it's also 
a lot more.  It's a book on the textiles and other finds from Norse 
Greenland.  It is absolutely stunning--loads of diagrams and color 
photos of extant garments, and chapters on tools and textiles and weaves 
and...oooohhhhhh!!  (maire goes into a ladylike swoon from the sheer 
pleasure of it)
I'd recommend it quite highly for anyone who's interested in period 
textiles, or Norse finds, or Greenland.  Friends of mine are calling it 
a new "god book," of which another example would be, say, Janet Arnold's 
book, _Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlocked_.
--Maire, unabashed food and textile geek ;-)

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Maire commented:
> 
>> Whether we look at ourselves in the same light depends on the individual
>> and his or her areas of expertise.  No one does it all.  I probably know
>> more about tentage than most Artemisians, for instance, but still camp
>> in a nylon pimple tent, because it's not cost effective for me to invest
>> that much money into camping gear I use only two or three weekends a
>> year at most (never mind the impossibility of hauling it in my friend's
>> Nissan).  I'd rather be buying books, or fiber, or fabric. ;-)
> 
> I understand, but perhaps you or others in a similar situation might be 
> interested in some of the comments in this file in the STRUCTURES 
> section of the Florilegium:
> tent-transprt-msg (10K) 12/27/01    Transporting tents and pavilions.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/DWELLINGS/tent-transprt-msg.html
> 
> Of course for those looking for more unusual solutions, see this file in 
> the TRAVEL section:
> SCA-transport-msg (17K)  9/19/04    Typical and unusual SCA vehicles and
>                                        transportation.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/TRAVEL/SCA-transport-msg.html
> 
> And I have noticed that often the longer someone is in the SCA, the 
> larger their vehicles get. :-)
> 
>> When I think of the
>> first feast I helped with, which featured vegetables marinated in
>> Italian dressing, and roasted turkey legs, I just laugh.
> 
> We've discussed period turkey here a number of times, so I just want to 
> ask about these marinated vegetables. Are there any similar period 
> recipes that do something similar? How does this marinating in oil help 
> with the vegetables? Does it soak into the vegetable and make it more 
> tender? Or is it just for flavoring? Is this just for grilled vegetables?
> 
>> These days,
>> give me my copy of _Woven Into the Earth_, and some yummy period food,
>> and I'm a happy camper.
> 
> This _Woven Into the Earth_ is a book on period textiles? Review? 
> Comments? I don't think I've heard of this book before, though that may 
> be because I'm not on the right mail lists. Unfortunately, since topics 
> such as textiles and clothing have left the Rialto (rec.org.sca), I 
> don't get the exposure to some of this stuff in passing that I used to 
> get. But I don't have time for any more mail lists. :-(