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Dame
Katja Davidova Orlova KhazarinaMajor Fields: Period Cooking and Food Research, Bread baking, Feast planning & management, Herbology, Medieval gardening, Period Middle Eastern dancing.
Other Areas of Interest: 10th to 13th century Khazar/Turkic research (cities, language, commerce, clothing, etc.), Medieval dance, Archery, Scribal, Equestrian
Teaching: Please feel free to contact her if you would like her to teach any of the following classes:
CURRENT CLASSES
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An Overview of Renaissance Kitchen Equipment
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No Eels, Please! Non-Weird Period Food
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Creepy Cuisine, or, Yes Some Period Food IS Wierd
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Gode Cookery Sytes: How to Research Medieval Food If You Have No Period Cookbooks...and No Money to Buy Any
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A Gode Grocery List: what food was prepared in an English medieval kitchen, and how did it get there?
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New World vs. Old World Foodstuffs
- Breadmaking demonstrations with oral overview of period bread history
- Comparing & Choosing Medieval Cookbooks
- Medieval Pasta - History, Preparation, and Recipes
- Useful Internet Websites for Medieval Food Research
- Antidote Anecdotes: Medieval Poison Prevention
- Overview of Medieval Spices
- Plants in the Medieval Garden
- Middle Eastern Dance 101
- Simple Group Middle Eastern Dances
- Hip Drop Dance - a simple choreography
- Medieval Spices show-smell-and-tell
- The Winding Road to A Persona (How I
Became A Khazar)
NOTE: Many of the handouts from above classes are available on Katja's website - see URL below.
(Katja is currently working on a study of the causes for the food changes from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and a history of the Shroud of Turin during our period of study...)
E-mail**: Katja AT thescorre.org
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