Ciambelle Project

Historical Food for the Modern Palette

I want to share with you a year long project. I belong to a Historical Re-enactment Society and was recently chosen to compete in an Arts and Sciences Competition for the Kingdom Arts and Sciences Champion.

I recreated six ciambelli from Scappi: anise ciambelli, ciambelletti, three stuffed; apple, chicken and cheese, and zuccarini and brazzatelli from Cristoforo Messisbugo. I translated these from the originals myself and it’s interesting to note that Terrance Scully translated the cheese ciambelli incorrectly by omitting three key ingredients and giving the incorrect amount of butter.

I was required to make a video of my project between 15-20 minutes. There were five finalists. We had 30 days to finish the video’s and upload them.

Let me say how daunting this was! I have NEVER ever made a video, edited a video, done a voice over etc. I was trying to use a program from the App store but it was difficult to navigate. One of the competitor’s suggested I use iMovie and that they had tutorials online. So I did.

This is the result. Oh, by the way, I did win but I have a looooong way to go with making videos!

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