[Sca-cooks] Soup for the Qan workshop

[Susan Fox]

On 10/5/05 11:00 PM, "Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:

> 
> Paul Buell and I have been talking, and he's thinking of setting up a
> University of Washington (state of Washington) workshop in Seattle, as part
> of their Experimental College program. It would happen this spring, and
> would include intensive information about SftQ, and finish with a student
> cooked meal from the recipes in the book.
> 
> Anybody interested?


Fairly fascinated.  If UW falls through, I might be able to get the Culinary
Historians of Southern California interested.  The current president is
Charles Perry, as it happens.

Mistress Renata [of the seminal Sweetmeats article in the Flori-Thingie] and
I will be going to their lecture next weekend and buying books:

Saturday, October 15, 2005

Luigi Ballerini, ³The Renaissance and the Modern: The Art of Eating Well in
Italy²

10:30 a.m., Los Angeles Central Library

Speaker: Luigi Ballerini, Professor of Italian, UCLA

At our October meeting Ballerini will discuss his two latest forays into
Italy¹s rich gastronomic past: an unabridged English translation of
Pellegrino Artusi¹s 1891 classic, ³Scienza in cucina² (Science in the
Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well) (University of Toronto Press), which is
recognized as the first Italian cookbook ­ in the sense that it was the
first to put under one cover recipes from all regions of the newly unified
country; and ³The Art of Cooking: The First Modern Cookery Book² (University
of California Press), which presents over 200 recipes written in the late
15th century by Maestro Martino, who has been called the first celebrity
chef and the father of the dinner party. A contemporary chef has updated 50
of Martino¹s recipes which are included as an appendix in the book. A
signing/dining, featuring samples of recipes from Artusi and Martino
follows.

 
--- So it would follow that they might be receptive to you and Paul. Your
seminar and workshop looks like it would be much longer, more hands-on and
I'm sure there is no place at the Library to dig up an earth oven, but we
can use other venues certainly.

YiS, Selene