Cailte reports that at Their Court at Outlands Heralds and Scribes, Their Majesties Kynan and Gilliana placed THLady Theresa Yolanda Cabeza de Vaca on vigil to contemplate elevation to the order of the Laurel.

My Lords and Ladies, join us as we celebrate the ninth annual Fantastic Fairytale Fete. Arts and Sciences contests include: storytelling in any mode, and our signature cooking competition: best pun of a fairytale recipe -decorative or edible. Classes TBA.

Please join the Barony of Tarnmist for Fool's Tourney, a day of frivolity and complete silliness. Let your inner Jester come out and play. We'll be sharing a potluck dinner.

Do you cook a mean shoulder? Got the best wings around? Love your lovely smoked salmon? Are you a Rib Master? Burger-meister? Prove it!!

On 10 March TransAlpine Darton is hosting an Autumn Feast in Featherston. Master Stefano da Urbino will be cooking this feast.

The Shire of Caer Adamant is holding it's annual cookery themed event on March 3, 2012 and I am putting out a plea for teachers, A&S entries and A&S Displays.

Come on out and enjoy an Equestrian Event and Cooks Play Day.

Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have an interesting choice of study during the Independent Activities Period between semesters. The can take a non-credit course in food and cooking of the Middle Ages.

Alaxandair reports that he has created an album of photos from Kingdom 12th Night which took place recently in the Barony of the Debatable Lands, Kingdom of AEthelmearc. The photos are available to view on his public Facebook site.

The University of Western Ontario Department of English reports that Professor Emeritus, Constance Hieatt, has died at her home in Essex, Connecticut. A medieval scholar and a pioneer in the field of medieval cookery, Hieatt had just completed her latest work, Cocatrice and Lampray Hay: Late Fifteenth-Century Recipes from Corpus Christi College Oxford.

Our Barony, the most hospitable Barony in the Knowne World, would like to cordially invite everyone to Fontaine's Twelfth Night Celebration and Baronial Polling Saturday, January 28, 2012 at McGee Park, San Juan County Fairgrounds,

With this email The Shire of the Shadowlands welcomes you to Fall Ball in the Small Hall IV: Bakers' Bransle!! It will be a day of games, classes, and combat followed by a European Ball in the evening of Saturday, January 28th, 10 am to 10 pm.

In the Israeli city of Acre around 500 CE, Larry the Baker left his mark. A ceramic Byzantine bread stamp has been unearthed bearing the classic Jewish seven branch Menorah and the name "Laurentius" written out in Greek letters.

On January 28, 2012, the Shire of Boesenberg proudly presents Show Us Your Bootie.

A paper by Patricia L. Crown, of the Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, and W. Jeffrey Hurst, of The Hershey Center for Health and Nutrition, published on the PNAS website, explores the evidence of the use of cacao in the 11th and 12th centuries in the American Southwest.

A site excavated at a train yard in Japan is thought to have been a facility that provided food and lodgings to Korean and Chinese enyoys. The facility is mentioned in ancient manuscripts and dates to the 8th or 9th century CE.

Join in the merriment!  Partake of the feast!  Join us at the Barony of SunDragon Solstice!

Join the populace of the Province of Silver Desert for an evening of food and fun!

The Barony of Steppes cordially invites you to Steppes 12th Night and Kingdom Eistefodd, Saturday January 7, 2012.

The Barony of the Lonely Tower wishes to invite you to participate in the evening feast for their Twelfth Night Celebration to be held Saturday, January 7, 2012.
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Historic cookery has advanced to a point that the Wall Street Journal is taking notice. In an article by Alina Dizik, historic recipes, dating back to Roman times, are re-interpreted by the chefs of major international restaurants.

A feast to welcome the Newcomers to the Colleges of Saint Basil the Great and Saint Lazarus. Come and experience the food and festivities of the Medieval and Renaissance era.

Co-autocrats THL Jethro Stille and Mistress Catrin von Berlin have announced that the 2012 Known World Bardic Congress and Cooks Collegium will be April 20~23 in the Kingdom of the Outlands.

Giano reports that Plain Fare, Drachenwald's Camp Cookery Book, is now available to download on the Kingdom's A&S website. The book is in Adobe Acrobat™ (PDF) format.

SCA members are known for being amazingly adaptive in the worst of situations, but when the most unexpected happens with the kitchen, the situation can test the abilities of even the most skilled.

Come join Selviergard for a day of festivities, fun and frivolity! Their Majesties Rolf and Aurora will be there to celebrate the season with Their Highnesses Rurik Varyag and Trava. Let us commemorate the day for Their pleasure. This is the perfect time to break out the Byzantine garb!

It is the time of year again for us all to join together and enjoy the bounty of our harvests and our hunters at... Windkeep's Hunters Feast

We've got bells that JINGLE JANGLE JINGLE!!! YES, Good Gentles, you read right!! JINGLES IS BAAAACK!!!

Long a New York favorite and portable feast choice of SCA college students everywhere (hint: they can be easily smuggled out of dining halls), finding solid documentation for the bagel as a medieval foodstuff has been a challenge.

Augusto G reports that he has created several albums of photos from recent events which took place in the Kingdom of AEthelmearc. The photos are available on PhotoBucket.