Semi-hiatus enforced by Pennsic preparation
Every year we try to attend the Pennsic War, which is a two week long medievalist convention where we all camp out and dress in pre-17th century clothing (to varying degrees of authenticity). This year we did not know if we would be able to attend until mid-June and ever since then I have been scrambling to get a number of things completed (tent repair, some new clothing for my family, getting the house ready to have someone else living here while we’re gone, etc.). Unfortunately, everything is taking about three times longer than expected and that means that it cuts into my writing time.
I’ve been pushing myself and writing bits here and there, but as I realized after reading the food preservation class handout, the quality is not where I know it can be and where it needs to be. Since I don’t want to put something sub-par onto the internet (where nothing ever goes away), I am redoing the work so that it is up to my standards.
My intention was to update as normal until Pennsic starts, and then take a two week hiatus. Unfortunately, it looks like there will be sporadic updates and then a two week hiatus. I have been adding content to the Facebook group pretty often as the medium is conducive to one and two line updates or quick recipe sharing. If you have not joined us on Facebook, now is a really good time: Join the fan page by clicking here.
This afternoon I will be redoing the handout and publishing it here. There will be Viking Food as I have recipes and things that I need to produce for a catering gig at Pennsic. Fear not, I have not merely vanished, I am simply difficult to locate.
While I am being sporadic, please go and check out a few other really nifty Medieval and Modern Cooking Blogs:
Medieval:
Medieval Cookery
Modern:
Zwei Fat Chicks
Culiblog
Nose to Tail at Home
I am not gone, only difficult to locate, and for that I do apologize. It is sincerely a lack of planning for how much time things were going to take pre-Pennsic and afterwards, I should return to a far more predictable and reasonable update schedule. Right now, I have a number of projects in process: a full-on chicken research paper, a database of Medieval Dutch flavorings is being populated, the usual translation-fu, and writing an A&S Handbook. All of which I am dying to tell you about. But not before Pennsic.
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