sca-cooks Re: Terms
Philip W. Troy
troy at asan.com
Thu Apr 10 13:00:19 PDT 1997
Stephen Bloch wrote:
>
> > Hey, here's a period term for the one in charge of the kitchen.
> >
> > "Bottlier"
> >
> > Basically, instead of "feastocrats" we can be the "Butlers".
>
> My understanding was that the "bottler" or "butler" was literally in
> charge of bottles, just as the "panter" was in charge of the bread (and
> hence the pantry), the "kerver" was in charge of carving meat, etc.
>
> Steve / Joshua
And the "officier" was in charge of all of them, at least in France.
Adamantius, who has foresworn Greek, temporarily, by request
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