[Sca-cooks] *** off list *** RE: oxtail soup, Vol 57, Issue 36

[Sharon Palmer]

>So how goes with your translation? 
>

I still work on it on and off.. sometimes I'll 
work quite diligently, then I'll leave it for a 
couple months or a year.  I'm on a diligent phase 
right now, and translating both the Vorrede (this 
is incredibly prosy and difficult) and the 
Zugemüß sections, and nearly done transcribing 
Fisch.

Still have most of Poultry to go, and need to 
re-do Meat.. I used someone else's transcription, 
and I'm finding it more faulty than I realized. I 
never finished translating it, and my early 
translations were quite faulty too.  And there 
are a couple of interesting chapters after the 
Vorrede, before the menus, that seem to be about 
where to get things and how to choose them.  And 
a section on wine, beer, and water at the end.

Perhaps I should have started in the beginning 
and gone to the end, but I've done the parts that 
were most interesting, or as someone asked about 
it.

Every now and then I post a new version, and I 
have plans to resurrect the Rumpolt site.  Only 
having it on Yahoo groups really limits 
visibility.  I meant to do it right after 
Geocities died, but there are other demands on my 
time and money.

I have some ideas for tools to make translation 
and use easier, and have been saying "this month 
for sure" for ages.

Not sure if you know much about my health.. I 
went on disability last spring, but still am in a 
lot of pain.  Not working means no health care, 
no health care means no pain meds.  I'll get 
Medicare in a year, so hopefully things will 
improve then.  I have more time now, but not 
always very productive.  I've pretty much dropped 
out of any real time SCA stuff.

Ranvaig