sca-cooks Re: End of the Feast

Philip W. Troy troy at asan.com
Thu Apr 10 07:06:23 PDT 1997


On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Philip W. Troy wrote:

> Michael F. Gunter wrote:
> 
> > feast-master (is that better than "feastocrat"?)

> I'm partial to the Greek term "architriclinus" which translates roughly
> as "dining-master", and was applied to the pampered Greek head cook
> often found in Roman and Byzantine kitchens.

Please, good gentles!  I beg of you, don't make me listen to people 
mispronouncing and otherwise mangling Greek!  Please restrict yourselves 
to pronouncable words!  PLEASE! (one-half smiley)

Viviana Rowe
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I'll be post-feminist in a post-patriarchy.
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