June 10 at Lilies War in the Enchanted Grounds area. All day - informal.
July 27th Kingdom Arts & Sciences (Lonely Tower)

• We clarified the rules for IronChef - all medieval German cookery sources are available for use - not just the 15th Century.
• We are looking into a place to hold a northern edition of IronChef - more details will be posted as they are solidified.
• Kateryn announced that she was stepping down in December. It will have been three years since she stepped up, and she feels it is time to pass the baton.
• A cookery seminar next spring. Kateryn will look into details for it.
• We discussed the jointly sponsored(Cooking Guild and Traveler's Group) cookery day at Lilies this year. It will be the Monday of Lilies week. Where - the Enchanted Grounds area of the Traveler's group - located behind the staff parking lot. It is to be a day of drop by cookery, there will be a portable period oven to play with. And the guild will provide some food to play with and taste. Bring your own recipe and the ingredients and someone or more likely several someones will be glad to help you redact it on the spot.

• - A day-long seminar to run concurrent with RUSH in January of 2003. Or you could think of it as planning a cooking track for RUSH. What would excite you enough to attend this seminar? Some suggestions were: A redaction class - teaching you how to get started with redacting your own period recipe. How/where to find sources. What are primary/secondary? And how do you tell the difference? What are good sources/what are not?

  I am looking for more input on this topic. It will be coming up in all our meetings for the next year. So start thinking. And give me your input. Help me to plan a too-good-to-miss seminar for you.
  
  

• - Kingdom A&S. The organizers have already begun rounding up judges. I have seen some pretty incredible food entries the last couple of years. Are you entering? Why not? You don't have to compete for the Kingdom A&S title. You can enter one or two items just like at Queen's Prize. They even have tri-level criteria available to judge your entry. So, there's no reason not to put together something for an entry. Send in your entry slip today. And this is especially true for those who entered this year's Queen's Prize. If you received encouragement from the judges to enter KA&S, then you should make every effort to do so. The more people who demonstrate they are interested in medieval foods and cooking, the more other people become interested in medieval foods and cooking.
  
  
• - We're still looking for an event to host another Iron Chef competition. I would prefer to get in another this fall, but I also want the guild to sponsor another one next spring. If you have an event coming up and are willing to give us some room, we would be glad to sponsor the competition and provide the prizes.
  
  
• - Lilies. The Cook's Guild is cooking lunch and dinner on Thursday, June 14th at the Lilies Inn. Our menu and prices are printed in the June Mews. If you are going to be there - please consider giving an hour or two of your time to helping run the Inn that day. Our setup will be from 10 to 11 am. Lunch runs from 11 - 3, with cleanup and setup for the evening shift running from 3 - 5. Dinner runs from 5 - 8. With cleanup starting at 7:30, and hopefully ending shortly after 8. I also need some volunteers to bake cookies for the menu. I have some wonderful recipes for shortbread and shortbread variations. And gingersnaps would be great too! Let me know soonest if you can help with the cookies. I need to get started making the cookies this week if I don't have enough volunteers, so that I will have enough time to get the four dozen pies made in time to serve at the Inn, and make the soup, and precook the chicken... and I really need your help with this. Please step forward and say "I can help with..."
  

Kateryn de Develyn
Guildhead for Calontir's Cook

Kateryn brought the Lebkuchen she has been experimenting with lately. We all enjoyed it a lot.

Kateryn handed out new criteria - for translations - to be used in Arts and Sciences competitions. The current criteria available do not specifically cover translation projects. Several copies were handed out with requests for feedback.

We talked about recipes we have recently tried and new cooking equipment we have gotten.

We also talked about possible new projects for the Cooks' Guild to try in the future. One thought was for us to do a feast, making it as period as possible. We're also looking to do another Ironman Chef competition as well as other types of competitions. Day-long seminars were also brought up as a possiblity.

Kateryn is putting a bibliography on-line at our guild-website. It is composed of the bibliographies in her cookbooks, and some online bibliographies. It won't be searchable for a while, but is printable and will be a good resource.

The guild is signed up to run the tavern at Lilies for the final Thursday lunch and dinner meals. This is to be a fundraiser for the guild. If you donate an hour to working the tavern - then you can have a free meal when your hour is done. You will be hearing more about things the guild will need to borrow for use at the tavern in future e-mails.

Remember - our first Ironman Chef competition is coming up at the end of April in the Shire-March of Grimfells. Having seen some of the team lineups - It's going to be really really fun and currently looks too close to call. If you can make it down - do! Join the fun! Watch your friends play with knives and fire.

• The guild sponsoring a competition at A&S in July. This idea was discussed thoroughly and turned down. A&S is growing as an event with lots of great entries and a need for many judges. It was felt that holding an additional competition on top of A&S would cause too great of conflict for too many people – who wanted to partcipate in A&S as entrants or judges.
  
  
• Holding a tri-level cooking competition, where the entrants on a single level are to all use the same recipe (said recipe published in advance). IE: Everyone entering the novice level competition would use the recipe specified for novices, and so on for the other levels. Kateryn de Develyn is exploring various venues(events) where this can be done.
  
  
• Discussed Vincente Coenca’s translation to English of a 16th Century Spanish cookbook. Libro de Cozina by Rupert de Nola. He will be publishing the book (hopefully later this year) after he is satisfied with its editing. He also talked about publishing a companion book later which would contain his redactions of de Nola’s recipes.
  
  
• Discussed the possiblity of holding an IronChef in primitive conditions at Mag Mor’s Cattle Raids this fall.
  
  
• Discussed the quantity and quality of the cooking entries in the QPT competition. There were 9 entries and they were all of excellent quality. It looks like interest in cooking from period recipes is starting to take off in the Kingdom.
  
  
• In the next month or so, Kateryn de Develyn will be publishing on the guild website a bibliography of cooking resources. It will have a country and century assigned to primary resources, and it will identify primary(P), primary translated/transliterated/transcribed (PT), secondary(S), and general sources(G). She will include web addresses for those items which are online. Preliminary copies were given to each contestant as a gift for entering the competition at QPT.
  
  
• We are asking that all the cooking entrants please send a copy of their documentation to post to our site – so that all may see the quality of work being done by our kingdom.
  
  

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