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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