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Banquet dels Quatre Barres

Food lovers unite! The Barony of Caer Mear (Richmond, VA) cordially
invites you to a celebration of Catalan cuisine on March 9, AS XXXVI
(2002). Join us for a day of food, food, music, food, stories, food,
dancing, food, and congenial company. There will be arts and games in the
morning, music and entertainment throughout the day, a banquet from
mid-afternoon into the evening, dancing and good company into the night.

Banquet: Master Thomas Longshanks and his kitchen crew will present a
feast in 6 courses, with dishes selected from Catalan cookbooks of the
14th and 15th centuries:

Pa, recuit i almendras (Bread, fresh ricotta and almonds)
Salsa a bolets (Pan-fried wild mushrooms with fresh onion salsa)
Ayada blanqua a pex ab aygua (Poached fish with white garlic sauce)
Confits de almendras (Almond confits)
Pastaneguat (Lightly fried puree of carrots)
Jurvert a porc en ast (Spit-roasted pork with green sauce)
Mel i higos (Figs preserved in honey)
Cebada (Caramelized onion with aged cheese)
Limonea (Spit-roasted chicken with a sauce of almond milk, lemons, sugar,
ginger and saffron)
Confits de [fennel] (Fennel confits)
Aros con let de almendras (Rice with almond milk)
Carn ala sarraynesque (Beef Saracen-style)
Mel i aros con polvora de duch (Rice with honey and spices)
Mato (Sweetened fresh cheese)
A table of confits will follow the banquet for your enjoyment throughout
the evening.

A fine meal is incomplete without good wine. Bring your favorites, or
contact Master Thomas for a list of very good, inexpensive Catalan wines
he recommends you bring for various dishes.

N.B.:  Most dishes INCLUDE nuts or almond milk. Most dishes are NOT
vegetarian. Please contact Master Thomas for a complete list of
ingredients.

Event specifics:  The site is the Group Camp 3 Dining Hall at Pocahontas
State Park, Route 655 (Beach Rd.) in Chesterfield County, VA. The Hall
will be open 10:00 a.m. to  9:00 p.m. The Park closes at 10:00 p.m. The
site is discretely wet, with the display of no original containers. The
State Park prohibits open alcoholic beverages outdoors at this site (they
aren’t kidding, folks!). There can be no open flames in the hall, so all
candles must be enclosed in a container.

A&S Activities:  Display – Artists and researchers are invited to display
their works from 10:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Competition – In addition to the
A&S display, there will be a friendly competition. The best expression of
the theme will receive a small token of our appreciation. The theme will
be “Books and Roses.”

Lodging and Crash Space:  Contact the autocrat for information on area
hotels.

Fees:
On-Board:  $20.00 (children 5 and under, free).
Servers – 14 servers are required for this event. Servers will receive
selections from the feast. The cost of the event for servers will be the
$5.00 hall fee.
Off-Board – Because the event is a banquet, off-board space will only be
provided on a case-by-case basis for special circumstances. Off-board
guests must pay the $5.00 hall fee. Contact the Troll for details.

Reservations:  Admission to the banquet is limited to the first 96 paid
reservations, only. Sorry, no walk-ins. Reservations must be paid and in
our hands by March 2, 2002. If the event is cancelled, all paid
reservations will be cheerfully refunded.
Directions: