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madbakerCHoNC - Culinary Historians of Northern California - is about six months old, if I remember correctly. They generally meet once per month in Berkeley and have an hour-long talk about food. Then dinner.
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j_i_m_r found out about them and we went to their Nov 8 meeting. The speaker gave an overview of the melting pot cuisine she had growing up: her grandparents were Iraqi observant Jews who emigrated to Bombay, then later to Shanghai. In the fifties they went to Vancouver.
The talk was interesting. It's a smallish group of mostly amateur historians. Dinner was at a local Chinese restaurant that was pretty good. JIMR and I were outed by one of the founders when we said we were interested in medieval and Renaissance food; she responded "Oh, SCA?" (But not in a derogatory way.) One of the members was Alice Medrich; JIMR and I managed to not go fanboy on her. Mostly.
I don't want to take the group over with SCA people, but they are always looking for speakers.ppfuf and G-M could redo their Collegium class on feasting, perhaps. If I managed to put together a Collegium class on Ouverture de Cuisine, I might try it out there as well.
In summary, worth going to and worth going back.
j_i_m_r found out about them and we went to their Nov 8 meeting. The speaker gave an overview of the melting pot cuisine she had growing up: her grandparents were Iraqi observant Jews who emigrated to Bombay, then later to Shanghai. In the fifties they went to Vancouver. The talk was interesting. It's a smallish group of mostly amateur historians. Dinner was at a local Chinese restaurant that was pretty good. JIMR and I were outed by one of the founders when we said we were interested in medieval and Renaissance food; she responded "Oh, SCA?" (But not in a derogatory way.) One of the members was Alice Medrich; JIMR and I managed to not go fanboy on her. Mostly.
I don't want to take the group over with SCA people, but they are always looking for speakers.
ppfuf and G-M could redo their Collegium class on feasting, perhaps. If I managed to put together a Collegium class on Ouverture de Cuisine, I might try it out there as well.In summary, worth going to and worth going back.
