[Sca-cooks] Middle Eastern clothing and food

[Elaine Koogler]

Your Grace,
We are attempting to make our event (A Day in the Middle East) a more period
experience as well.  We do have music, with dancing (provided we can get the
musicians, of course...last year we had quite a respectable band and we hope
to have the same again this year).  We also have other activities, including
classes on various aspects of Middle Eastern culture.  According to what I
understand about gatherings in this area historically, we also provide food
and drink throughout the day in the form of a mezze in addition to the
feast.  Because of this, the feast I prepare is not the three course affair
that Urtatim described, but is served as a single course.  But we do include
the same assortment of dishes as what she described.

So it is happening at more than one event.

Kiri

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:11 PM, David Friedman <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>wrote:

>
> What has long bothered me about "middle-eastern" in the SCA context is that
> it generally means "dancing and drumming." Both, so far as I can tell, are
> in practice based mostly on 20th century practice. I'm happy to hear that
> something period is creeping in, at least to the Hafla.
>
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