понедельник, 13 октября 2008 г.

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Since I absolutely cannot get focused on work this morning, Iapos;ll post about the event instead.
The event was really good. There were some class hiccups, and my Indian "tea and book social" didnapos;t make it into the printed on-site schedule, which somehow made the class-crat believe I had canceled it, which I had not. I was very glad I made it to the event as one of the multiple-class teachers had the stomach flu and if we both hadnapos;t made it the number of classes would have been drastically reduced. As it was, my Indian book social ended up being scheduled for three hours. That ended up being a pleasant surprise, as it gave people time to really sit and talk more deeply than they would have in just an hour-long time slot. Lalita Dasa and I also got to have some deep garb geeking time, which feeds my soul. There just arenapos;t that many people I can seriously deeply geek with. She stretched my brain. It was goooood.

The feast was an experience. All Roman, almost all straight from Apicius, which the cook had done heavy recipe testing on. Five courses, twelve or thirteen separate dishes. He runs an excellent kitchen, no serious meltdowns, everything on or ahead of schedule. I was able to talk him down from a "ohfuckit Iapos;m just throwing it away" moment with one of the dishes which Iapos;m thankful for, it turned out delicious if more labor-intensive than planned (cream of wheat, cooked and left to chill and set up, then sliced and fried and drizzled with honey and pepper. It failed to set firmly.) This was one of those serious "many hands make light work" feasts, and I am so thankful this Barony has a lot of people who are experienced cooks and actually enjoy helping in the kitchen. I was impressed and tickled beyond belief that the two newbie girls- one in early Chinese and one in formal Heian Japanese- tied their huge sleeves back with ribbons and jumped right in the kitchen work. There were a lot of leftovers, and I think the cook was disappointed and upset by this... It was a vegetable-heavy feast, and they were mostly unpopular vegetables (turnips, carrots, fava beans and brussel sprouts) and even though they were cooked exceptionally well most people did little more than taste them. This was an important lesson to me

I called Mistress Marina last night and we started talking about Gulf Wars. Omggulfwarsomg. Itapos;s five months away. Garb for three kids for five days, for cold and hot and wet weather. Icbhodapos;s garb needs serious help, he must have a new Landsknecht outfit and several caftans of the style he has chosen. I have currently one choli that fits and two skirts that I even want to be seen in. My Mamluk outfit is still only 2/3 finished and has been languishing in the project box for years now. My only decent Indo-Persian (the Court of Ghiyath Shahi one) is unwearably-too-big. Starting the non-European SBapos;s will make me sew more. I now have a working sewing machine that can handle anything. We have sufficient resources that if I need something, I can just buy it rather than having to wait for weeks or months for new fabric.



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