A Minor Thought: Experimental Archaeology

This weekend I’m attending Readercon, a genre conference devoted to the written word and permutations thereof, under my normal guise of writer. Most of my panels are the usual sort, but my first panel this morning is “Archeology in Reality and Speculative Fiction”– which I’m on because of my dive into the historical recipes you have lately seen grace my pages.

I am therefore, this morning, all aflutter– do I bring props? Will I go the whole hour without quoting Schitt’s Creek‘s “fold in the cheese”? How do I delicately bring up the topic of blood marmalade and how it is Very Very Wrong while, crucially, still connecting it to speculative fiction?

These are my conundrums.