sca-cooks Re: intro

[Mark Schuldenfrei]

  > On the nomenclature issue, how about "chef" or "head cook"?  The fact
  > that these terms are comprehensible to modern ears doesn't ENTIRELY
  > disqualify them from SCA use :-)
  
  I don't think it disqualifies them from SCA use but it depends upon
  the way it is used.  I have concerns over "chef" for two reasons.
  First it implies a mundane ranking and second it could make things
  confusing for the listener.  Saying "I have been a chef many times."
  could imply either that a person has "feastocratted" several events
  or been the "chef de cuisine" for a nice mundane restaurant.

Context matters.  I don't see a problem.

  I prefer "Head Cook" but I'm not thrilled with that either.  The
  phrase "...and bottle washer." always runs through my head when I
  hear it.

The phrase is "Chief Cook and Bottle Washer".  Not "Head Cook".  There ya
go!
  
  I may not like "feastocrat" but at least we know what we are talking about.

Yes, but we are also not doing the best we can to be a good medieval
organization.

	Tibor