[Sca-cooks] Christmas in July...

Joel Lord jpl at ilk.org
Mon Jul 24 19:47:53 PDT 2017


If I might ask, what _did_ the translation cost?

And why didn't we think to do this sooner?

- Joel of Vestfell, East Kingdom

On 7/24/2017 10:17 PM, Glenn Gorsuch wrote:
> Well, kinda.
> 
> Remember a bit over a month, month and a half ago that Duke Cariadoc found
> for us the text of a bunch of sixteenth century Hungarian recipes?  And we
> all agreed it was sad that we didn't read Hungarian.
> 
> Well, just over a month ago, I had this crazy notion.  What if we could
> find a translator online?  How much would it cost?  Well, too much for this
> petty bureaucrat to pay for it turns out.  But I asked around a few of my
> local SCA cooking groups on Facebook, and, um, in under fifty and a half
> hours, I had a crowdfunded commitment for the whole amount, including for
> the feast menus from 1603 that followed it.  We all agreed that it would be
> made available to anyone who wanted it.
> 
> It took a month for him to get the recipes done.  The menus are still in
> process.  But waiting...waiting stinks.
> 
> The cookbook is now up at   http://medievalcookery.com/etexts.html?Hungary
> 
> There is a slight revision coming in the next day or so, but nothing that
> would keep you from enjoying it now.  It will also shortly be hosted on
> Cariadoc's site and Fibergeek.com
> 
> Go, redact, and cook!  And share what you're doing!
> 
> Gwyn Chwith ap Llyr
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