doing it again

[ppfuf]

 A plan is forming to create another PerfectlyPeriodFeast, perhaps at fall collegium in 2010. We'll give this one a proper name.

A Spanish feast primarily based on Rupert de Nola, (c.1529, Nola wrote in Catalan for the Aragonese court in Naples. Aragon and Catalonia covered much of the same ground. Aragon is a political unit and Catalonia is a cultural region.[thanks, Juana!]) Other Spanish sources to be determined, hopefully from 1520-1560. Anybody who can read Spanish, please look over the books listed here: http://www.bib.ub.es/grewe/grewe1.htm and let me know if they are really about food. 

If you'd like to get into this project early, please drop me a line and I'll send you an invite to the yahoo group. The same yahoo group as last time, in case you are already on it.

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[shutt3rg33k.livejournal.com]

Mememememe! And I'll look at the books.

Edit: first pass looks more like Latin but I'll give it a shot.

[catagon3.livejournal.com]

The titles of 1,2,4 & 5 are in Latin and the others are in Italian.

[shutt3rg33k.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I won't be much help there. Perdoname.

[catagon3.livejournal.com]

The Claudii Galeni (Galè, Claudi. De alimentorvm facvltatibvs libri III.) has what looks like an index or some other sort of reference table with food words included (pg 3 ff). I was not successful following the references, however. The little I can read leads me to believe this may be more about medical uses of food.

There's greek here and there in the text, too, just to add spice.

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

Bad puns cost you a nickle. You're still a Kate, no matter how far you wander.
Thanks for looking. I had assumed it was Spanish, since it's from the library in Barcelona. My bad. If I find any spanish sources written in spanish I'l forward them to you and shutt3rg33k.

[callistotoni.livejournal.com]

Count me in! :-)

[etaine-pommier.livejournal.com]

I'm in for serving :-)

[fighter-chick.livejournal.com]

I would love to get in on the cooking!

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

I'm not the head cook this time, but I'll forward you to the person who is (I think, need to talk to her again). Are you going to be helping with the bardic feast this year?

[ldyanna.livejournal.com]

Me!

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

I'll happily be involved at some level.

[acanthusleaf.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Ooh! Me!

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

I thought you were already on the list, but if not please join http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PerfectlyPeriodFeast/

[vittoriosa.livejournal.com]

On that website:
#1 is Apicius.
#2 is like an encyclopedia of food, I think. I read through the table of contents but pp 20-24 are very blurry and hard to read. "Omnium gentium moribus" in the title means "the customs of all people," which makes me want to see something like "The Aragonese eat this kind of food and serve it this way." Such information may be buried within those 1159 pages
#3 is all about carving -- I have a copy at home (the one I showed you last weekend, that tells how to carve fruit and stuff).
#4 is a bilingual (Greek & Latin) edition of Dioscorides' book on medicine (1st c).
#5 is more medical stuff (the title is something like "on the faculties of nourishment")
#6: "Twenty days of agriculture and the pleasures of the country house." Sounds like something Martha Stewart would write. ;-)
#7 is all about fish??
#8 is an AWESOME resource on serving, cooking, banquetting, and other goodness. Not yet translated into English. I've read bits and pieces of it.

3, 8 and possibly 6 will be useful, though perhaps more for the 2013 cycle.

I also just went through my notes from my meeting with K.A. last week to see if any Catalan sources came up in conversation... I got notes on lots of new stuff from Switzerland and France, but for Iberia we only talked about Nola and Sent Sovi.

[kareina.livejournal.com]

It might be interesting to lurk on the list, if you don't mind folk there who are much too far away to actually participate...

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

I don't mind. We had a couple of lurkers last time. Please join http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PerfectlyPeriodFeast/

[albionwood.livejournal.com]

Rats, I miss the 15th century one and you punish me by moving to the despised 16th!

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

We're not punishing you, it's a bonus!
Seriously, I hope to do another 15th century feast someday and we'll keep you in the loop for that.

Count me in

[bonacorsi.livejournal.com]

Hopefully I won't be sick next time.

[joycebre.livejournal.com]

me! I can't translate anything though. :-(

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

You don't have to translate. There's plenty of other stuff to do. :) Please join http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PerfectlyPeriodFeast

[helblonde.livejournal.com]

I'm interested, too!

[(Anonymous)]

I want to be a part of that!

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

you were not logged in. so I can't direct you to the yahoo group, sorry.

[aureellia.livejournal.com]

I replied to this as anonymous. Duh.