Travels around the Knowne World

Teaches and is interested in:

• Cooking: Primary author of Traveling Dysshes
• Redaction and period sources
• Cooking for hordes of folk (feast stewardship)
• Modern sanitary cooking techniques
• Event stewardship and organization
• Beginning costuming
• Simple Textile Arts

Personal data

Family Life

• Arlyna, aka Jen. Member of the Order of the Dragon's Treasure, a Middle Kingdom award for children who have contributed greatly but who are too young for an award of arms.  Given by TRM Tadashi Fuyuzuru and Ariake, Twelfth Night, AS xxiv (1990), in  Northwoods. She spent many hours in the kitchen with me doing feasts, and was serving by the time she was 8. A skilled midwife and herbalist, she spends more time awake at night than most sane folk, but she loves the work. She has a spouse named Bryan and sons named Jack and Atticus!

• Duncan Julyan [Page down until you see the snakes], aka Duncan Alisdair Odum McGregor. Duncan is currently page to Sir John Theophilus, OL. He received an AOA May 30, AS XXXIX (2004), from Günter & Keisha (Prince and Princess of Cynagua). At the time he was one of the Page School instructors.  A Natural Philosopher, he studied the Ars Mathematica in An Tir and is currently living in the Barony of Al-Barran in the Outlands.

Siobhan's Household

Dependents (Everyone likes to brag about their children...):

• Baronness Cynthia Du Pre Argent 

• Mistress Crystal of Westermark, OL, OP, who’s first claim to fame is feasts and brewing (and for someone who doesn’t drink much that’s an amazing achievement!). She possibly has the shortest Apprenticeship in the Known World, as she accepted my offer into the household one evening at Crown and was invited into the Order of the Laurel the next morning. The most amazing event she has been involved in is the “Perfectly Period Feast,” Mid-November, 2010. (You can see the details, pictures, etc. here: http://sundragon-cooks.livejournal.com/915.html). There are more pictures here: http://martinorivenstar.smugmug.com/gallery/4934023_QzkVL. She is wife to Sir Geoffrey Matthias, who is a Caer Anterth native. (He is a contributor to The Letter of Dance: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/lod/types.html )
  

• Baroness Cordelia Toser, OP, who excels in spinning, cooking, cordials, and anything else she puts her mind to! She is my co-author for Traveling Dysshes (This is a VERY OLD ad.) She lives in the West, is active in Crosston, Darkwood, and Southern Shores, as well as the Principality of the Mists and the Kingdom. She was one of the meat carvers at the Perfectly Period Feast as well as continuing to nag me about the next edition of the prime mover for the next edition of Traveling Dysshes.
  


• Baronness Anpliça Fiore, formerly Polaris Herald. She is my apprentice, and Meister Gevehard von Baden’s Protégé. She serves as our household trained herald, a good cook, and takes on many tasks for the Kingdom. We love when she brings her daughter, Dani, to household events.
  
  


• Lady Llewke verch Gwilim, a 13th Century Welsh lady who is interested in metalwork (enameling and other decorative arts), is learning the fiber arts and is heading into the kitchen with me -- she has great skills in her own kitchen that will translate well into the SCA environment. She was Chronicler for Nordskogen, is now Chatelaine, and is also working on various event and group websites.
  
  
• Dame Prudence Goodheart of Wyewood, OL, a Tudor middle class lady who has mad skills in the fiber arts. She is possibly the first member of the household who definitively does not cook. Her work in her costume and lacemaking is breathtaking, and her humor is wicked. We like her. Alas, she lives in An Tir now.
  
  
• Lady Naimh ingen Domnal, a Welsh lady and also a Splendid Cook, does fabulous illumination, embroidery, marzipan subtleties, and cracks the whip over meetings in a most efficient way.
  
• Lady Helena the Quiet, a quiet gentlewoman who also cooks, sews well, and is the most fabulous kitchen dishwashing manager I've run across.
• Lord Bazyli Boleslaw z Krakowa, is Polish, late period, and he comes from the city of Krakow.  His family are merchants, though there is a wing that are committed to the military.  He is a lover of good food, fine drink, and excellent company. He is also an excellent cook, handyman, welcomer of new folk, by his own admission a "schmoozer." He can work a room like no one else. He's currently fostered to Duchess Petranella while I'm living in another kingdom.
  
• Lord Wolfstanus Lightfote, who sews, cooks, handles money, does leatherworking, and is willing to try his hand at just about anything. He looks fabulous as a Roman slave boy.
  
  

Associated members of the Household:

• François Thibault, who is an exceptional scribe (see his examples, especially the marvelous scroll he did for her Laurel). Their children, Elizabeth and Arthur (they are twins, I change the order around sometimes), are also under my ægis.
• Sir Aaron of Buckminster,  also called Aaron Palomides of Buckminster - He's not always that silent -- see here.   And read his chronicle of Chivalry.
• HL Ingrid the Fair, of Crosston, who was in the West since just after the Dinosaurs, and who made the list order sing with efficiency. Sadly, she has passed on before us.
  
• Lady Katerine Rowley, from Bryn Gwlad, has been an friend for many years, and shelters with us from time to time. She is well-versed in the fabric arts, especially in making15th and 16th c. garb, and has an eye for color that is just fabulous. She is also a cook, and has great recipes on her website up there.

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