Busy weekend and busy month ahead of me...
We went to Chateau de Camville's combative arts weekend this past weekend and had a great time. It was very funny driving up there at night as it is really off the beaten path (the last three roads we drive upon prior to hitting the house were unpaved), but as you can imagine the place was gorgeous so far off the beaten path. We got in quite late as Brion had to work til 7:00 and then come grab Galen (his man at arms) and me. It was a lot of fun and I met a bunch of new people that I really liked, including this kick-ass harp player who had all this cool information on historical harps (she teaches a harp class at Pennsic that is like 3 hours long). She had this packet of period harp music that was done in the period muscial notes and has only recently been translated to our modern notation. Like I said it was really friggin cool! I am going to try to get her and her wife to come camp with us. I think Sue and Paul would LOVE them.
Anyway... and today I checked out airfare to see if I could swing a trip to the An Tir Culinary Symposium and it will be a stretch but the airfare was cheap and I will be able to write it off. I am trying to learn more about period food preservation especially thru the Germanic line since it seems to be the most likely direct line to the type of fermentation we are doing modernly. From what I have seen of early Viking food preservation documentation, they were storing cured and smoked meats in whey. Meaning this is the first evidence I have seen for fermenting meat in lactic acid and/or acidophilus. I am curious to see how far into the Medieval period they were doing this for meat (I assume all eras of sauerkraut have used Lactobacillus in their fermentation process from early periods to modern since they were doing it in the Viking Era, various segments of the Medieval era and now modernly). As far as I have seen the french and the Italians were not doing this.
So anywho... that is the weekend of April 15 and I am pretty excited about it. This weekend is Crown. Brion is not fighting. I am catering a Wedding on June 18, which is June Crown. Brion is getting to be a good enough fighter that he could win, and if he did, the Queen would be unable to attend Crown tournament during the day on Saturday, which means I would miss invocation, the list and court. It really sucks and I am feeling quite depsondant he can't fight. I asked if he would please fight for someone else and he said no.
With the weather being iffy, we are going to go up on Friday and set up the food for Lochlan's vigil then come home and crash, then come up with the kids on Saturday morning and stay for the day. It is Lil's birthday on Friday so everyone wish her a happy one! Duke Sean and Lil will be up visiting for his squire's knighting and I can't wait to see them!
Normally I like to game crown, but I am not sure who is fighting this time? I think Uther is fighting for Leticia, I think Ob is fighting (but I am not sure who for?) and I won't be surprised to see Havec fight (he is a big Pennsic fan and this is 40 year) for his new lady and I think Roric might be fighting as well. Miles will fight (and he did win White Shield, which can be a precursor to winning Crown) for Francesca think. Man I feel so out of the loop!
Anyway... and today I checked out airfare to see if I could swing a trip to the An Tir Culinary Symposium and it will be a stretch but the airfare was cheap and I will be able to write it off. I am trying to learn more about period food preservation especially thru the Germanic line since it seems to be the most likely direct line to the type of fermentation we are doing modernly. From what I have seen of early Viking food preservation documentation, they were storing cured and smoked meats in whey. Meaning this is the first evidence I have seen for fermenting meat in lactic acid and/or acidophilus. I am curious to see how far into the Medieval period they were doing this for meat (I assume all eras of sauerkraut have used Lactobacillus in their fermentation process from early periods to modern since they were doing it in the Viking Era, various segments of the Medieval era and now modernly). As far as I have seen the french and the Italians were not doing this.
So anywho... that is the weekend of April 15 and I am pretty excited about it. This weekend is Crown. Brion is not fighting. I am catering a Wedding on June 18, which is June Crown. Brion is getting to be a good enough fighter that he could win, and if he did, the Queen would be unable to attend Crown tournament during the day on Saturday, which means I would miss invocation, the list and court. It really sucks and I am feeling quite depsondant he can't fight. I asked if he would please fight for someone else and he said no.
With the weather being iffy, we are going to go up on Friday and set up the food for Lochlan's vigil then come home and crash, then come up with the kids on Saturday morning and stay for the day. It is Lil's birthday on Friday so everyone wish her a happy one! Duke Sean and Lil will be up visiting for his squire's knighting and I can't wait to see them!
Normally I like to game crown, but I am not sure who is fighting this time? I think Uther is fighting for Leticia, I think Ob is fighting (but I am not sure who for?) and I won't be surprised to see Havec fight (he is a big Pennsic fan and this is 40 year) for his new lady and I think Roric might be fighting as well. Miles will fight (and he did win White Shield, which can be a precursor to winning Crown) for Francesca think. Man I feel so out of the loop!