SC - Thoughts...

[david friedman]

At 3:54 PM -0600 12/13/97, jeffrey s heilveil wrote:
>I have recently become the head of the cooking guild, something which in
>Wurm Wald is relatively inactive.  At the moment I am trying to push a
>return to tradtion, where the Barony used to have a monthly potluck.  I am
>adding a slight twist of making it a period potluck.  Anyone have any
>other great ideas on how to get some of the cooks in my area active on a
>semi-regular basis?

I think it is important to distinguish between researching medieval cooking
and putting on feasts. Otherwise you can get a situation where everyone
assumes that joining the cook's guild implies you are volunteering to work
many hours at the next feast.

So my suggestion would be to establish your guild as an organization for
researching medieval cooking. Do cooking workshops, where someone gets a
bunch of original medieval recipes together and buys the ingredients, each
person who comes picks one recipe and does it, keeping track of the details
(with everyone else making suggestions as needed), everyone eats stuff as
it comes out and comments. That produces worked out recipes and people who
know they can work from primary sources.

Make it clear that the guild will be happy to help cooks find recipes, but
that members are not automatically available to cook feasts.

David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
ddfr at best.com
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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