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So one thing I've noticed is a weak point of mine is that I'm... hmm, how to put this nicely? NOT a particurly wonderful teacher, and I should probably work on that, especially as due to some convincing by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wombatgirl I'm apparently going to be doing it in Calontir. (Don't worry, Gwen, I have a cunning plan between now and then, which has already begun to take place. )
See, the problem with me teaching is that I tend to do brain dumps, with associated handwaving. The more organized I make myself be, the more that tendency fades, so it's just a matter of prepping REALLY thoroughly - and practicing - to fix this. That in mind, I started working on the Pie Class last night.I was suppose to start on this sooner, but work interfered. Still, I gave Pie Class 0.5 as a trial run at Kappellenberg last night.
(Tangent: work. We launched our new website today: www.tereckoffice.com. I wouldn't normally mention where I work, but then this journal is boring enough that I don't think it'll cause scandal. The sad thing about the website launch is that home page? well, let's just say that we were given one design to work with, it turned out badly, and so it was completely redesigned at a meeting last FRIDAY. Ask me what I did this weekend...hint #1: not sewing, hint #2: not cooking. And I still haven't managed to get the Flash intro to look right (thus why it's not there).)
So anyway, I didn't have as much time to work on the initial draft of the handout - in fact, those of you who were there would probably laugh at me to know that I didn't even have time to START on the handout till 6pm Monday.(Tangent: It was an amazingly heavily-LJ crew, come to think of it - something like 13 of 15 people there, or something like that, had LJs. Which worked out badly for poorsyaldia - but that's her own fault for posting silly polls. Speaking of which, y'all should go answer this, just to skew the numbers back the other way...) Anyway, the handout was 45 minutes of brain-dumping, thus why it was not as well-cited as I would like. But it was organized enough that I didn't feel like I was getting lost half-way in the middle, so yay. Only managed to talk for 30 minutes on that particular brain-dump, but I've come up with several points I missed, so that's all good.
Points I plan on covering in this particular project/paper/class/thing include:
I'd love to hear any suggestions for other avenues / directions this could go that I'm completely missing.
I'm still intrigued by the subject as a whole, though, which is good - I'm thinking, possibly, that once I do more research that this might end up a good subject for a TI article - general enough to be both of-interest and relevant to a lot of people, no matter their persona, practical (pies really are an ideal food for tourneys), and potentially a good length. (Speaking of, those who would know - what IS a good length, in # of words, for a TI article?)
Meanwhile,kfitzwarin was making noises that I should do more clothing/hat related research/teaching. The problem with THAT, of course, is finding a *direction* for that. The only novel idea I've had so far would be some sort of project examining how the houppelande evolved from the cotehardie, which is a transition that I haven't seen anyone doing a lot with. This may be because it's an impossible project. I think I'll seperate thoughts on that into another separate entry though, just to cut down on the length of this one...
wombatgirl I'm apparently going to be doing it in Calontir. (Don't worry, Gwen, I have a cunning plan between now and then, which has already begun to take place. )See, the problem with me teaching is that I tend to do brain dumps, with associated handwaving. The more organized I make myself be, the more that tendency fades, so it's just a matter of prepping REALLY thoroughly - and practicing - to fix this. That in mind, I started working on the Pie Class last night.I was suppose to start on this sooner, but work interfered. Still, I gave Pie Class 0.5 as a trial run at Kappellenberg last night.
(Tangent: work. We launched our new website today: www.tereckoffice.com. I wouldn't normally mention where I work, but then this journal is boring enough that I don't think it'll cause scandal. The sad thing about the website launch is that home page? well, let's just say that we were given one design to work with, it turned out badly, and so it was completely redesigned at a meeting last FRIDAY. Ask me what I did this weekend...hint #1: not sewing, hint #2: not cooking. And I still haven't managed to get the Flash intro to look right (thus why it's not there).)
So anyway, I didn't have as much time to work on the initial draft of the handout - in fact, those of you who were there would probably laugh at me to know that I didn't even have time to START on the handout till 6pm Monday.(Tangent: It was an amazingly heavily-LJ crew, come to think of it - something like 13 of 15 people there, or something like that, had LJs. Which worked out badly for poor
syaldia - but that's her own fault for posting silly polls. Speaking of which, y'all should go answer this, just to skew the numbers back the other way...) Anyway, the handout was 45 minutes of brain-dumping, thus why it was not as well-cited as I would like. But it was organized enough that I didn't feel like I was getting lost half-way in the middle, so yay. Only managed to talk for 30 minutes on that particular brain-dump, but I've come up with several points I missed, so that's all good.Points I plan on covering in this particular project/paper/class/thing include:
- Definition of Pie
- Eating of Pie
- Who (social classes)
- When (time periods)
- Where (locations, situations)
- Why? (advantages of pie over other food forms, both then and now)
- How (manners, etc)
- Components of Pie
- Crusts
- Fillings by Type
- Meat/Fish
- Custard/Quiche
- Fruit
- Compare and Contrast some historical examples
- How pies evolved over time (early medieval vs. high medieval vs. renaissance)
- edited to add: Regional variations Thanks!
- How to improvise on the theme of pie (possibly, when in class form, with some philosophy on improvisation and food - this should possibly be a separate LJ entry)
- Cooking Pies
- Medieval techniques and equipment
- edited to add: Baking
- edited to add: Frying
- Modern techniques and equipment
I'd love to hear any suggestions for other avenues / directions this could go that I'm completely missing.
I'm still intrigued by the subject as a whole, though, which is good - I'm thinking, possibly, that once I do more research that this might end up a good subject for a TI article - general enough to be both of-interest and relevant to a lot of people, no matter their persona, practical (pies really are an ideal food for tourneys), and potentially a good length. (Speaking of, those who would know - what IS a good length, in # of words, for a TI article?)
Meanwhile,
kfitzwarin was making noises that I should do more clothing/hat related research/teaching. The problem with THAT, of course, is finding a *direction* for that. The only novel idea I've had so far would be some sort of project examining how the houppelande evolved from the cotehardie, which is a transition that I haven't seen anyone doing a lot with. This may be because it's an impossible project. I think I'll seperate thoughts on that into another separate entry though, just to cut down on the length of this one...