[Sca-cooks] 2nd Call for Teachers and Presenters: Middle Kingdom Cook’s Symposium 2005

[Gaylin Walli]

(please feel free to forward this to any email lists or websites as 
necessary)

2nd Call for Teachers and Presenters: Middle Kingdom Cook’s Symposium 
2005

Event Date: Saturday, December 3, 2005
City: Kalamazoo, Michigan (Canton of Three Hills, Barony of Andelcrag)
Site: Kalamazoo Latvian Hall, 100 Cherry Hill, Kalamazoo, MI 49008


The Barony of Andelcrag invites you to join cooks, researchers, 
farmers, herbalists, toolmakers, food aficionados, gourmands and 
interested bystanders to a Cook’s Symposium scheduled for December 3rd, 
2005. This year’s Symposium will be held at the Kalamazoo Latvian Hall, 
which resides in the Canton of Three Hills within the Barony of 
Andelcrag. The site is wet, handicap friendly, easy to find, near major 
highways, within easy driving distance of airports, and has ample 
parking. Did we mention this was a wet site?

We would like to send out a second invitation to people who may be 
interested in presenting a class at this year’s Symposium. Regardless 
of your level of expertise, we think you have knowledge to share! 
Beginners and experts alike! Past year’s Symposia had two to three 
loosely grouped tracks. We are planning to continue this, but we have 
room for as many as 4 full tracks of classes if additional people are 
interested in teaching. Classes are typically 1 hour long, though some 
hands-on classes may run 2 hours or more.

The expected cutoff date for finalizing the class list has been 
tentatively set for November 13th, 2005. For those of you who have 
already volunteered, thankyou! For those you thinking about teaching, 
but not sure what you should teach, why not take a look at these 
classes that are planned for the event? Maybe they'll spark your 
interest or help you identify a class that's begging to be taught!

Here are the cooking classes people have promised so far:

Hands-on Beginning Cheesemaking (Donaetienne)
Hands-on Advanced Cheesemaking (Donaetienne)
Stuffed Pastas of the Italian Renaissance (Helewyse)
Herbs in Cooking (Harley)
The Cook as Autocrat (Rosalyn)
Anglo-Saxon Food (Aibhlin)
Indian Food (Aibhlin)
Hands-On Beginning Sausage Making (Aeneas)
Knife Making for Cooks (Gwylym)
Period Flours and Levening (Richard)
Illusions with Bread (Richard)
Feasts Everyone Can Eat, And the Cook Can Still Take a Nap (Katya)
Medieval Fruiting Plants (Kathleen)
Dehydration, A Modern Take on an Ancient Practice (Kathleen)
Tasting Period Fruits (Femke)
French Feast Fun (Alaina)
Feast Planning as Project Management: Coronation, a Case Study (Gwyneth)

We're specifically interested in adding a track of classes this year 
dedicated solely to the brewing and vinting arts, as this is a topic 
that is frequently tied directly to cooking within our researched time 
periods. We're looking for teachers willing to present classes on any 
topic related to the production or use of "booze." Do you have a pet 
project related to brewing and vinting? Contact us! We'd love to have 
you teach! Here's what's on our plate so far:

Brewing With Herbs That Aren't Hops (Odo)
It's Not Just Cane Sugar and Vodka (Dulcinea)
Herb Gardens Design For Brewing and Cooking (Rhonwen)
we also have a possible class mead making (possibly by a world-famous 
author if we can snag him), and a day-long demonstration on brewing beer

If you're a teacher of one of the above classes and you haven't gotten 
your teacher info request in yet (or if you've not received it), please 
let us know. A few emails have been bouncing here and there and we want 
to be sure we get your classes scheduled at the times you request. Did 
you volunteer to teach? Again, some of our emails have been bouncing to 
prospective teachers, so we'd really like to hear from you!

Cheers!

FOR INFORMATION ABOUT CLASSES OR TO VOLUNTEER TO TEACH PLEASE CONTACT 
THE CLASS COORDINATOR:

Mistress Iasmin de Cordoba
C/o Gaylin Walli, iasmin at comcast.net or telephone 248-582-0533 (EDST)

FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVENT IN GENERAL PLEASE CONTACT ONE OF THE 
EVENT STEWARDS:

Mistress Siobhan, judith.a.kirk at wmich.edu
Dame Hauviette, channonmondoux at yahoo.com