Literature. Drinking. 【文飲】

Back in March, I competed in the Crown's Arts and Sciences Championship, and with the assistance of  my dazzling outfit  managed to charm the judges into giving me one of the two winning spots!  I'm honored to have won: the competition was very strong. I've been a little remiss in updating the blog because the world is falling apart, but I'm back!  And I want to share both what I put together for the competition, and my actual documentation so that others can see at least one approach that seems to work ok. Documentation . I wanted to brew a selection of thirst-waters / sharbats as my entry.  The competition judges one entry or several as a single body of work, so it wasn't strictly necessary, but part of the story that I wanted to tell was the spread of sharbats out of Central Asia and establishing them as a drink shared across 8,000 miles, from Andalusia to China. It turns out that it's a little hard to draw a direct linguistic line between sekenja...

Painted image copyright this person whose real name I don't know , although if you have a burning desire to make a copy just copy the thing it's based on, honestly. This past weekend was King and Queens Arts and Sciences championships in Mt. Kisco, NY.  I had entered it two years ag o when this research was in a much, er, less tasty state, and I was still figuring out some of the process details.  There were ~40 entrants, and, as I did two years ago, I made the second round of judging, but did not win, which is totally fine.  I love these events because A&S is the thing I like the most about the SCA, and the best of SCA A&S is on display there.  Unfortunately, I didn't get to dig into the other entrants as much as I would have liked to because I got to talk to so many people! A neat thing happened there: I apprenticed to Magnús , which in SCA land means something like "we're officially science-friends."  This is cool because it means I get to bug...