Eulalia Piebakere

Eulalia Piebakere, formerly (and still formally) Eulalia de Ravenfeld, is active in the Barony of Dragon's Mist and in the Barony of Three Mountains. She loves historical food and cooking (and eating!) and can usually be spotted cooking over a fire at events. She also sews, spins, brews, and is generally an all-around A&S lover. Her persona is an urban pie-selling widow living in England during the latter half of the 13th century. Research interests include everything 13th century English, occasional forays into 14th century England, street food, pies, peasants and other commoners, towns/cities/urban life, women's history and daily lives, and food archeology.

Eulalia always wears a hat.

Eulalia is apprenticed to Master Refr orðlokarr Fiachson, Baron of Dragon's Mist. They have been known to make terrifying foods together.

Awards:

Award of Arms AS XXXVII

Jambe de Lion AS XLII

Goutte de Sange AS XLV

Selected Achievements:

A&S Defender, Shire of Dragon's Mist, c.a. AS XLII. Entry: "A Suite of Sweets: Three Period Candies"

A&S Champion, Barony of Three Mountains, c.a. AS XLIII. Entries: Late 13th century working-woman's outfit, recreating 13th century breads, and testing the efficacy of three medieval tooth-cleaners.

2nd Place, Intermediate Division, 12th Night Costume Contest, AS XLIV.

Recent projects and research interests:

Persona-Appropriate Food Project: Research paper on late 13th / early 14th century English food, drawing on archeological, written, and visual sources to detail the availability, production, preparation, and consumption of foods during this time period. Includes analysis of recipes in two cookbooks of the period.

Material culture and food in English urban centers during the High Middle Ages: still in process, research paper on food-related archeological finds from York and London c.a. 1100-1500, to be presented at the next West Coast Culinary Symposium.

Comparative pie-crusts: Analysis of various period pie crust recipes and plausible recreations of historic pie crust techniques. To be presented as a class at the next West Coast Culinary Symposium.

Accommodating modern dietary restrictions when preparing medieval foods; period vegan/vegetarian recipes, plausibly period gluten-free recipes.

Food preservation.

Food-related classes taught:

Introduction to open-fire cooking

Introduction to Roman food

Basic camp cooking / feeding yourself while camping (focused on staying historically accurate)

Medieval English street food

Humoral theory and diet

Medieval vegetarianism (and how to cook vegetarian food for SCA feasts)

Period sweets

Wild food foraging

Mead brewing

Feasts Coordinated

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner for attendees of Culinary Symposium XLIV/2009. All food was 13th/14th century English and reflected different social classes -- peasant breakfast, town-dweller lunch, and noble dinner.

Three-course Venetian feast for Carnevale di Venezia XLV/2011. and recipes.

Eulalia Hath a Blogge

Eulalia is nearly always seen with her lady, Anne Midwinter