[Sca-cooks] Teaching in the SCA

[Lilinah]

Johnnae wrote:
>Since the list is quiet, does anyone have thoughts on teaching and classes
>in the SCA?

Uh, i teach. I teach cooking and costuming. Sometimes purely lecture 
classes. Sometimes hands-on classes. Primarily, but not exclusively 
on topics Near and Middle Eastern.

What do i need? I need my stuff and students. I'm often disappointed 
when the latter do not turn up. Since i don't own a lap-top, i can't 
do PowerPoint illustrated lectures at the indoor events. I just give 
lots of hand outs.

I have three opportunities per year to teach: At the Spring and Fall 
Collegium Occidentalis, which is usually held in a school, and at the 
West Kingdom Arts and Sciences Tourney, which is a weekend camping 
event.

Some months after i finished translating Stephane Yerasimos's book 
into English, i taught my first-pass lecture class on 15th and 16th 
C. Ottoman food and feasts at  the Fall Collegium, i had one, count 
'em, one student. That was a disappointment. After all, even for the 
hard-core Europhiles, Istanbul *is* in Europe. And since so little is 
currently out there about period Ottoman food, i thought i'd have a 
few more... i was expecting maybe six.

Last year at A&S I had about 8 students show up for a hands-on 
Ottoman cooking class in which we made, IIRC, 3 dishes. It was over 
100 degrees Fahrenheit that day, but fortunately not humid.

Often at a Collegium Occidentalis (which are nearly always money 
losers, with low turnout), the Home Ec. kitchen is being used to cook 
the feast, so, when permitted, we teach cooking classes outdoors on 
camp stoves (many, if not most, California schools involve classrooms 
that open directly into the outdoors and are often oriented around 
courtyards). However not all schools (our typical Collegiua sites) 
have Home Ec. kitchens, so sometimes there's no cooking at all :-(

I'm planning to teach at the Cooks Symposium up in An Tir in November 
this year. I'm pretty sure i'll get more than one student.

What sorts of info/ideas were you interested in?
-- 
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
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