[Sca-cooks] Teaching in the SCA
Lilinah
lilinah at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 22 15:13:25 PDT 2008
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?
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