What might we be able to achieve?

Could a feast for say, 60, be cooked entirely over an open fire in a timely manner and observing food safety guidelines? A good question! By one cook, maybe not, but by many cooks working in parallel, perhaps. We have done distributed feast cooking in Carolingia before to comply with a site which has restrictions about the preparation of raw meats in its kitchen. Might that not work in this case? For safety, we might find it necessary to cook some items and then cool and store them under modern refrigeration until dinner, then reheat them in a modern kitchen prior to being served at the feast. Also, I could see the event supplying a staple thing like bread or some cheese.

Would all this be of interest to all you open fire cookery fans out there? Would you participate? What kinds of dishes should be served?

Speak!

Musings on "Carolingia Does Carolingia"

I've been ruminating over Dark Age cultures in Europe and how they can be so different one from another.  One way to handle this event would be to assign a date and location to the event.  Another would be to let it exist outside a particular time and location in order to see what what the resulting cultural pointillism will reveal.  Plenty of other possibilities exist.

I can think of plenty of possibilities I would enjoy, but since I have no actual skin in this particular game I don't want to get in the way of other people's ideas.

But right now I do think of it in my own head as "Carolingia Does Carolingia."

Let us brainstorm together....

This is a website for an SCA event that doesn't exist yet, but hopefully will be planned for Autumn of 2014 in the Barony of Carolingia (Greater Boston area). If you are interested in the concept and want to participate, feel free to join the blog as we engage in collective brainstorming.

I'd like participants to make blog posts on subjects that interest them or areas where they have ideas, tag them with labels, and then let them show up in the "Topics" sidebar by label. How does that sound as a way to work?