sca-cooks Letter of Introduction

[Aldyth@aol.com]

> Several years ago there was one of those perennial debates on the Rialto
> about "when should the SCA's period cut off?"  I and others pointed out
> dance treatises, which seem Renaissance in their outlook) and in cooking,
> 1492.  In other words, even though SCA period technically runs for over a
> century after 1492, I consider that century an aberration, and have no
> particular interest in designing a feast set in that time.

Why, what happened in 1492?  (Showing my ignorance).  Why is the century
after that an aberration, if we extend (technically) to the renaissance
era?  As a musician I'd go spare if I couldn't sing John Dowland!!  *grin*

Fyrean ...