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ppfuf ([personal profile] ppfuf) wrote2008-07-08 12:43 pm
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doing it again

 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.

[identity profile] shutt3rg33k.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Mememememe! And I'll look at the books.

Edit: first pass looks more like Latin but I'll give it a shot.
Edited 2008-07-08 20:04 (UTC)

[identity profile] catagon3.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
The titles of 1,2,4 & 5 are in Latin and the others are in Italian.

[identity profile] shutt3rg33k.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I won't be much help there. Perdoname.

[identity profile] catagon3.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] ppfuf.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] callistotoni.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Count me in! :-)

[identity profile] etaine-pommier.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm in for serving :-)

[identity profile] fighter-chick.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I would love to get in on the cooking!

[identity profile] ppfuf.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
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?

[identity profile] ldyanna.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Me!

[identity profile] madbaker.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll happily be involved at some level.

[identity profile] acanthusleaf.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh! Ooh! Me!

[identity profile] ppfuf.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought you were already on the list, but if not please join http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PerfectlyPeriodFeast/

[identity profile] vittoriosa.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] kareina.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
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...

[identity profile] ppfuf.livejournal.com 2008-07-08 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't mind. We had a couple of lurkers last time. Please join http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PerfectlyPeriodFeast/

[identity profile] albionwood.livejournal.com 2008-07-09 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Rats, I miss the 15th century one and you punish me by moving to the despised 16th!

[identity profile] ppfuf.livejournal.com 2008-07-09 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] bonacorsi.livejournal.com 2008-07-09 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Hopefully I won't be sick next time.

[identity profile] joycebre.livejournal.com 2008-07-09 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
me! I can't translate anything though. :-(

[identity profile] ppfuf.livejournal.com 2008-07-10 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't have to translate. There's plenty of other stuff to do. :) Please join http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PerfectlyPeriodFeast

[identity profile] helblonde.livejournal.com 2008-07-09 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
I'm interested, too!

(Anonymous) 2008-08-14 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
I want to be a part of that!

[identity profile] ppfuf.livejournal.com 2008-08-14 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
you were not logged in. so I can't direct you to the yahoo group, sorry.

[identity profile] aureellia.livejournal.com 2008-09-02 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
I replied to this as anonymous. Duh.