sca-cooks Geographical issues
Sharon L. Harrett
afn24101 at afn.org
Sun Apr 13 14:02:41 PDT 1997
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Aonghas MacLeoid (B.G. Morris) wrote:
Greetings, with my 2 cents worth;
My first SCA feast (as cook) descended on me by default, with less
that 10 days to plan and prepare. I was new to the SCA but not to a kitchen,
and had snapped up Cariadoc's Collection and any other resources I could
find (in my 6 months as a member) I decided to do a Geographical feast,
based upon the personae of my small shire. The dishes ranged from early
Roman thru Viking, Norman,Persian, and on up thru 16th C. France. I was able
with the resources to put together a feast that took us on a marvelous
journey through times and places, in which the dishes complemented each
other well. I would't dream of saying it was authentic.. but we loved it!
Ceridwen
> Hi:
>
> I agree with your ideas. It would not be unusual for us to have cooked
> things from the past. (my grandmas favorite recipe came from her
> grandmother and it is also my favorite) As for geography, why not mix and
> match. A case could be made for a traveller bringing an idea back from his
> travels.(a la Marco Polo???)
>
> Regards,
>
> Ealasaid
>
> May thee hae meikle feres,
> Kennin fae, A guid burdie
> An ding a fou coggie.......
> ......Lang May Thee Lum Reek!!!!!!
>
> hylndr at ionline.net
> http://www.ionline.net/~hylndr/
>
> ----------
> > From: Uduido at aol.com
> > To: sca-cooks at eden.com
> > Subject: sca-cooks Geographical issues
> > Date: Friday, April 11, 1997 10:56 PM
> >
> > In a message dated 97-04-11 14:22:10 EDT, you write:
> >
> > << Likewise, we
> > have geographic issues to contend with (this dish is German, this one
> > Italian,
> > etc.), or even temporally (this was 12th century, this was 15th...). >>
> >
> > Perhaps this is a plus rather than a negative. :-) Since the gusets at an
> > event are of many time periods and nations, a lot of exciting menus can
> be
> > built around a combination of textures, times, countries and styles. What
> are
> > anybody elses tho'ts?
> >
> > Lord Ras
>
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