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Lucrezia Borgia is giving a feast in honor of her father, the Pope, but beware, there is poison in the air. Caution is your only hope. Come to the feast and see who will be the last noble standing in this game of trust and betrayal. For those that wish to come and just watch the spectacle, items will be provided to ensure your safety. There will be a cap of 60 tickets sold, as the Pope is in his elder years and large crowds leave him ill.
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Canton of Caer Darth (Santa Cruz, California)
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Come one and come all. Join the Suth Gild Heall Cooks and Brewers in the
second of the Succession of Salubrious Soirees - Harvest Feast.
Lady Isobel de la Rose of Arrowsreach has never cooked for over 8 people on
her own (she is a great kitchen helper though), She has been working
extremely hard at getting up the nerve and getting together her first "big"
feast. She is ready !!!
Her challenge on the night "Cook a successful feast for 24 people". The
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Suth Gild (Mt Waverly, Australia)
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Do you hunger for Knowledge? Then feed your hunger! Join the Shire of Windale for our Feast of Knowledge. There will be plentiful classes to satisfy all appetites.
Our Feast will start at 10:00am on Saturday, October 18, 2008. It will be in the cool, tall pine trees of the Hualapai Mountains.
Our Feast includes classes in Arts & Sciences, and Fun and Sex in the Middle Ages. All sorts of fulfilling classes on Combat Basics such as Fighting, Armor, and Archery will be available for those with heartier appetites. Spear your hunger with all day rapier activities. There will be child sized portions available with parent/guardian supervision. To zest up the Feast, we will have delicious classes on All Things Slavic.
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Shire of Windale (Kingman, Arizona)
LiveScience columnist Heather Whipps writes a weekly column on world-changing events. A recent article discusses how the Spice Trade brought East and West together.
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Once again our explorers have braved the wilds of the New World to bring
back that wondrous delicacy – CHOCOLATE!!! Due to our continued and
deepening friendship with a small and extremely secretive tribe, the Oompah’s, you will be able to taste chocolate in as way that no others across Europe have yet been able to produce. The Oompah’s are the only ones to have
uncovered the secret of sweetening the cocoa bean.
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College of Brymstonne (Fountain Hills, Arizona)
Lord Martin of Rivenstar has posted an album of photos on his SmugMug website from Mists-Cynagua War in the Kingdom of the West. The pictures were taken by Martin, Johanna, and Victoria.
Everyone knows that Byzantines (being superior creatures) used forks as early as the 10th century, while other Europeans struggled at stabbing their beef with a knife. The California Academy of Sciences offers a History of Kitchen Utensils, including the fork, on their website.
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Mangia, mangia, mangia! But before you can eat, you have to learn how to cook! The Barony of Settmour Swamp invites you to learn all about creating feasts at our Cooking Collegium on June 28th, from 10 am to 10 pm at St. Paul's Church in Flemington, NJ.
We have classes to satisfy your brain and your stomach, for beginner chefs to advanced ones. Throughout the day, cooking, brewing, and herb related classes will be taught. We will have three types of classes: technique and theory, tasting (sampling foods), and hands-on (cooking or prepping food). And everyone will be a chef, as the food prepped in the hands-on classes will be served throughout the day buffet style, with a large buffet feast at the end of the day.
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Barony of Settmour Swamp (Flemington, New Jersey)
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Dark Ages Picnic: Plague, Punishment and Pleasure (a Dragonspine *non*-event)
May 18th 10 am - till the plague takes us all. Bear Creek Park, Bear Creek Park Pavilion 6 Argus and 21st, Colorado Springs, CO (fighter practice location) Admission: Free
Come experience the one aspect of the Middle Ages we normally avoid. THE
PLAGUE.
Who says dieing of flesh eating disease can't be fun.
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Barony of Dragonspine (Colorado Springs, Colorado)
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Vinhold is Invading! Save the sheep! Beware, for Vinhold has taken up arms and a Viking theme for this year's Baron's Championship.
Events
to include:
Oar dancing
Norse riddles
"Pig" Spearing
Viking themed Soteltie competition
Siege cooking competition
There will be prizes for first place in each competition. These
events will be run concurrently with our Rapier championship and our
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Narony of Vinhold (Napa, California)
This is a reminder that on Thursday, March 13 at Gulf Wars XVII, Clan Marshin Fayne will be hosting to incredible events filled with food, fun, and Charity.
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We would like to cordially invite you to a Culinary Symposium for those with any interest in historical food. There will be everything from hands on
cooking over fire, feast planning and preparation, to research presentations. This event will be held in AnTir, in the Barony of Dragon's Laire (Belfair, Washington) the weekend of November 14-16, 2008.
We are currently recruiting additional teachers and taking requests for
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Barony of Dragon's
Laire (Belfair, Washington)
The March 1, 2008 edition of American Public Media's The Splendid Table features a discussion of Islamic cooking with Charles Perry, historian of Arab cuisine.
On March 8, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. (US Eastern time) Marc Meltonville and Richard Fitch will present "The Tudor Kitchens of Hampton Court Palace" at Greenbank Mills & Philips Farm in Wilmington, Delaware.
Lord Roibeard mac Neill and THL Katryne MacIntosh the Strange have announced that an Iron Chef competition will be held March 13, 2008 in the Clan Marshin Fayne encampment at Gulf Wars.
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For all of those who have been wondering about Otherhill Candlemas, wonder no more. Master Thomas duBeaumont wishes all to know the Shire of Otherhill, Artemisia's oldest shire, will celebrate the feast of Candlemas on February 2nd being 2008 of the common reckoning.
As is common for this celebration of the season, yearly contracts will be renegotiated and annual salaries will be paid.
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Shire of Otherhill (Rock Springs, Wyoming)
Need to take off a few pounds or kilograms from the holiday feasting? Eat like your persona! A Shropshire physician claims that Europeans in the Middle Ages were in some ways much healthier than modern people.
A new cookbook, Medieval Cuisine Of The Islamic World: A Concise History With 174 Recipes by: Zaouali, Lilia; Translated by M.B. DeBevoise, has been published by the University Of California Press.
Just in time for the holidays, Darla Goodroad reports on feasting in the time of Chaucer in an article for Chivalry Sports: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Holiday feasting in Chaucer's Time.
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Join the Marche of Three Towers for the second Oaken Regional Cook's Symposium. Join us as the cooks of the kingdom share knowledge, discuss and learn new techniques (and old techniques), share recipes, and, of course, eat. The site is handicapped accessible. There will be activities on both floors, and there is an elevator between.
St. Timothy's Lutheran Church
1262 Ashland Rd
Mansfield, OH 44905
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Marche of Three Towers (Mansfield, Ohio)
Ysabeau de La Rochelle from the Kingdom of Northshield reports that she is working with a team of developers to create an online Northshield Feast Menu and Recipe Archive.
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Come one! Come all! Join the "knights" of the oval table as they take a day off from their Quest for the Holy something-or-other and make merry at Monty Python's Pickled Pub on December 1st, 2007. English shenanigans shall ensue with maiming, brawling, bringing out the dead, hurling insults, seeking shrubbery and fighting off killer bunnies. Whilst enjoying the spectacle, lunch on fine Camelot fare, including Ham and Jam and Spam a lot.
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Barony of Twin Moons (Tempe, Arizona)
There will be a cooking competition at Kingdom 12th Night in Endless Hills. The subject? Historical tarts (not street walkers, but pies without a lid)!
