[Sca-cooks] ISO Hints for Teaching at Pennsic

[Euriol of Lothian]

I would plan for at least 25 people, you might get less, you might get more. But it does seem the newer the material at Pennsic, the more students you are likely to have.

Pennsic Univ has a classroom area that includes a sink, just for these "hands-on" classes that are done. Just make sure you note when you register you class that you will need this. Also be prepared to have something to cart the things you need to and from the class site.

I also suggest trying to test your class prior to Pennsic, allow you to work out any of the logistics ahead of time. A class I started to develop last year, I taught for the first time at Pennsic this year. I was glad I had the time to fine tune the class prior to teaching it at Pennsic.

I have also brought a propane stove into the pavilion at Pennsic in the past, and I had no problem. And I believe they are all equipped with fire extinguishers as well.

 
Euriol


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From: "lilinah at earthlink.net" <lilinah at earthlink.net>
To: SCA-Cooks <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, September 2, 2011 2:13 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] ISO Hints for Teaching at Pennsic

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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