[Sca-cooks] ISO Hints for Teaching at Pennsic

[Susan Lin]

yeah - the Grimm tents - I wouldn't want to light anything under one of
them!
How wonderful that you are interested in teaching.  I would offer our camp
but we're in the bog and I'm guessing most people would not be interested in
hiking down.
I've been to classes where the teacher requests everyone brings some
firewood so the class doesn't use what is for the camp.

Shoshanah

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:13 PM, <lilinah at earthlink.net> wrote:

> As y'all know, i attended my second Pennsic this year.
>
> Prior to this year i was not sure if i was up to teaching at an institution
> as venerable and mythic as Pennsic, but after attending a class during which
> i must have mentally face-palmed a dozen times (no, Saddam Hussein did not
> change the name of Persia to Iran; no, Iraqis and Iranians are not
> culturally the same; etc.), i think i am sufficiently capable.
>
> So i was wondering if anyone on this list might have some helpful hints for
> teaching SCA-period food oriented classes to people from all over the known
> world at Pennsic.
>
> In addition to a lecture-type class, i would like to teach a hands-on
> cooking class and i know i cannot have a Coleman stove inside a Grimm class
> tent, although people i talked to at University Point said it would be
> allowable to have a camp stove outside one. I have asked the folks who run
> the West Kingdom encampment - which is easy to find, easy to get to, and on
> level ground, just around the corner from Your Inner Vagabond - if i can
> hold it there, but i don't know if they'll agree, since it is essentially a
> fighter camp.
>
> So i may be in search of a camp that is not too hard to find and too far
> out who would allow me to hold a cooking class...
>
> I have not yet decided if this will be in 2012 or 2013.
>
> Thanks for any crumbs of knowledge,
> --
> Urtatim [that's err-tah-TEEM]
> the persona formerly known as Anahita
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