[Sca-cooks] Teaching Cooking 101

[Susan Lin]

Gunthar:
That sounds like a great idea.  Here we have the Cooks' Guild.  It is
supposed to be where people interested in cooking can get together and
practice or share ideas.

The problem is that people think they need to know how to cook to be
involved although I always send out the guild meeting info to the entire
Barony and remind them that everyone is welcome.  Recently the guild has
been on hiatus because I got tired of setting up an afternoon of stuff to do
just to have nobody show up.

I think your idea of bring the basic classes to the people at an event might
get more people interested in learning at least the basics.

Please let us know how it goes.

Shoshana

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Michael Gunter <dookgunthar at hotmail.com>wrote:

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> Last night as I was getting armored up for fighter practice a young
>
> 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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>
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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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