[Sca-cooks] Calontir's Cooking Symposium AND Le Recuil de Riom

[Guenièvre de Monmarché]

I have to second that the event was wonderful - I flew in from Atlantia for
it, and the hospitality I received so far from home was truly extraordinary.

I mentioned to several people that I had been working on a translation of Le
Recuil de Riom - it's a 15th century French manuscript (1466 or so). All the
discussions I had on Saturday inspired me to actually finish my web page
today, including the translation - found here:
www.erminespot.com/cooking.html  

I'd love feedback on it, or any of the other projects there.


Lady Guenièvre de Monmarché 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: sca-cooks-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org [mailto:sca-cooks-
> bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Debra Hense/Kateryn de
> Develyn
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 1:35 PM
> To: Group-SCACooks
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Calontir's Cooking Symposium
> 
> We had excellent weather.  Wonderful selection of classes to choose
> from (I kept hearing complaints all day long about how people had to
> make choices because so many wonderful classes were scheduled opposite
> each other).  We had six tracks of cooking classes - so this was bound
> to happen.
> 
> We had wonderful food.  Duke Cariadoc was absolutely wonderful as our
> lunchtime keynote speaker.  And I heard his class was extremely well
> attended also.
> 
> We had a turnout of over 100 people for this single-interest event. And
> I believe we had people attending from at least seven kingdoms
> (Ansteorra, Artemisia, Caid, Gleann Abhann, Middle, Northshield,
> Outlands) There may have one or two more kingdoms in attendence, but it
> wasn't too shabby of attendence for a non-major war event.
> 
> The pot-luck feast was tremendous.  There was too much food (of
> course!).  We're cooks - our goal is to feed everyone way too much
> food.  I was glad I took a very small plate - I wouldn't of been able
> to walk away from the feast table otherwise.  It was good.  Very very
> good.
> 
> I got to renew my friendship with Gwen-Cat and catch up on her house
> adventures.  I got to take some great classes - the one taught by
> Mistress Agnes (formerly Calontir, very recently of Outlands) on plant
> confusions.  She showed photos of plants that have the same name and
> were widely different in appearance. And talked about plants are known
> by the same name in the middle ages but bears no resemblence.  It was
> wonderful knowledge to accumulate to see where the plant names diverge
> or merge or get renamed along the way from their appearance in a
> medieval recipe to modern times.
> 
> I wanted to take the class on humoral theory presented by one of our up
> and coming cooks (HE Caillin) in Calontir, because I feel I don't know
> near enough about this subject which so dominated cooking in the 14th
> and parts of the 15th century throughout Europe.  I wanted to take the
> vinegar class - because I understand students were presented with ways
> to start their own vinegar mothers(sp?).  I did take the potatoe
> puzzlement class.  It was based on a recipe from the Rumpolt collection
> (taught by Gwen Cat - Hi!!!) Each student made their own variation of
> the recipe.  The results all tasted good - and were in some cases quite
> dissimiliar.  But tasty.
> 
> I look forward to the next cooking symposium..
> 
> Kateryn de Develyn
> 
> 
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