[Sca-cooks] Teaching Cooking 101

[Margaret Decker]

You have a point but is King's college the right venue? Perhaps you would 
get more takers on a more local venue where you don't have sixty things 
going on at once especially as that event tends to draw those who have 
already taken an interest in making them selves know to  the laurels. 
Cooking 101 is a basic starter course even if its you teaching.
Margarite

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Gunter" <dookgunthar at hotmail.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:25 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Teaching Cooking 101


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> Last night as I was getting armored up for fighter practice a young
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> boy was sent over to me. His family is brand new to the SCA and
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> he asked me to take him as an apprentice. Um....I don't know this
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> kid and he obviously doesn't understand the term "apprentice" in the
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> SCA context. He told me he wanted to learn how to cook. I was a little
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> taken aback by it and don't really have time to have a stranger come
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> over to my house to learn cookery. So I told him to look for events
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> where there are feasts and to contact the cook to see if he can come
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> in and help. This would be a great place to learn basic food preparation
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> and get to know the cooking community. He seemed satisified with this
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> answer and went on.
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>
>
> But that got me to thinking that I want to start doing some "Cooking 101"
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> classes at things like King's College and Arts Symposiums. Maybe some
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> cooking weekends. I'd like to teach classes to people who are clueless in
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> the kitchen. Things like basic knife skills (how to dice vegetables, 
> peeling,
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> julienne, mince, etc...how to break down a chicken, how to carve..), 
> another
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> in basic cooking skills like sauteeing, deep frying, braise, etc...
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> So cooking classes for pople that can't cook. It seems that classes are
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> usually dedicated in how to do feasts or period dishes or whatever. And
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> frequently are directed at people who are interested and experienced in
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> cooking.
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> When the next A&S thing comes up I'll have to put in a class request and
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> see if there is any interest.
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> Gunthar
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