[Sca-cooks] cultural context

[Beth Harper]

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> Taking bits and pieces of what we did and incorporating them into your feast plans for your first feast on your own may be more do-able than trying to replicate our entire project :-)
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Hah! Yes. Very much so. :-) (I was sous-chef for Mistress Madavi's
crazy Indian feast last year *waves at Madhavi*, so I have a sense of
what goes into that kind of thing - we didn't do servingware and
furniture, and we asked people to bring their own feastware within a
range of event-appropriate, but think we did nearly everything else at
that level.) I'm not aiming for quite that high a bar this time, but
it is the inaugural event of our incipient shire - a midwinter indoor
tournament and social, a laid-back but pageant-y event - so I want it
to be pretty fabulous.

I would LOVE that material, yes, thank you so much! (If you're reading
this on the web and can't see the last half of my e-mail, it's a gmail
address.)

Gratefully,
Liepa

> For those who are curious, our first PPF was late 15th c English and the next one (sometime in 2013) is 1580's Ferrara. We did the food, service, carving, plates, cutlery, nappery, furniture, etc. as close as possible to the chosen time and place. A huge effort by lots of people but an extremely cool endeavor.
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> Juana Isabella
> West