Conflux Cookbook
When I wrote the Medieval chapter of the cookbook, I didn't have to notes I had for the other chapters and I knew that Big Things had been forgotten. I just didn't know what those Big Things were. If there had been more time, I could have sent a draft round and seen if other people could remember, but we had very tight schedules and this was not possible. My memory was prompted after the book came out and I want to share a memory with all of you and I want to apologise. This is the Biggest Thing of All that should never have been forgotten!
While Trevor Stafford was the Conflux chair for the first banquet, and while Tansy Rayner Roberts was MC on the night, and while I did the banquet menu and etc, and while Cary and his SCA friends handled entertainment, there was someone who put a vast amount of work in to make it happen. She ordered the most amazing cake I have ever seen in my life, to serve as a subtley (an edible castle!) and she pulled all us odd strands together and she watched over it all. That first feast worked so amazingly because of all that work she put in..
Kaaron Warren's work was the reason that first banquet was so very splendid and it set the tone for all the others.
I made the mistake of trusting notes for the cookbook. In most cases, this was no error - my memory is shocking. In this case, though, there were no notes, and so I would appreciate it if readers would kindly annotate that chapter to make the Medieval feast the way it actually happened, and not the way I remembered it last summer.
"Isn't something missing?" Sharyn asked me, when she edited that chapter.
"Yes," I said, entirely bemused. "I know there are totally key elements and I can't think of them and it's driving me crazy. That story's only half being told and it's all kinds of wrong."
And I kept adding things to the chapter, hoping they were what was missing, but they never were, because what was missing was Kaaron. The cookbook is a much lesser beast without her part of the story being told. In fact, the reason she was asked to contribute a short story was because she was so important (all the short story writers were crucial to the banquets' in one way or another). When I was thinking about *that* element, I remembered her work - just not when I wrote the b* chapter.
if anyone needs pens to annotate that chapter, just ask...
While Trevor Stafford was the Conflux chair for the first banquet, and while Tansy Rayner Roberts was MC on the night, and while I did the banquet menu and etc, and while Cary and his SCA friends handled entertainment, there was someone who put a vast amount of work in to make it happen. She ordered the most amazing cake I have ever seen in my life, to serve as a subtley (an edible castle!) and she pulled all us odd strands together and she watched over it all. That first feast worked so amazingly because of all that work she put in..
Kaaron Warren's work was the reason that first banquet was so very splendid and it set the tone for all the others.
I made the mistake of trusting notes for the cookbook. In most cases, this was no error - my memory is shocking. In this case, though, there were no notes, and so I would appreciate it if readers would kindly annotate that chapter to make the Medieval feast the way it actually happened, and not the way I remembered it last summer.
"Isn't something missing?" Sharyn asked me, when she edited that chapter.
"Yes," I said, entirely bemused. "I know there are totally key elements and I can't think of them and it's driving me crazy. That story's only half being told and it's all kinds of wrong."
And I kept adding things to the chapter, hoping they were what was missing, but they never were, because what was missing was Kaaron. The cookbook is a much lesser beast without her part of the story being told. In fact, the reason she was asked to contribute a short story was because she was so important (all the short story writers were crucial to the banquets' in one way or another). When I was thinking about *that* element, I remembered her work - just not when I wrote the b* chapter.
if anyone needs pens to annotate that chapter, just ask...
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