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[Mark Schuldenfrei]

Adamantius wrote:
  Another point I'd like to make is that if someone posts a reference or
  recipe for a food that appears to be non-"period", it isn't always
  strictly necessary to point it out. If you are genuinely making an
  inquiry into an issue you feel your own research may have neglected, as
  I think, for instance, Tibor did, that is one thing. On the other hand,
  if your immediate response is an angry, "'Taint period, McGee!", you
  probably need to consider the fact that people usually don't
  deliberately post the wrong information on purpose, and that if they do
  post something that disagrees with your own [extensive] research, it's
  either because they haven't done said [extensive] research, or they
  don't care, neither one of which is a crime.

True.  But....

If you also are privileged to read the Madrone Culinary Guild list (as both
Adamatius and I are), you will see a concommitant thread on the "problem"
that if something is served at feast, at least a portion of the feast eaters
will think it is period.

This is one of my totems: we can be as authenticist as our muse calls us to
be, but we cannot mislead each other about what is real.

Likewise, if someone posts a recipe to an SCA Cooks list, it might be easy
for someone who has not yet done much reading to presume it might be period.
I think it is very important to be accurate in labelling.

True story of my own, that happened in this list.  I had redacted a Lenten
Feast, but at the time I didn't understand the Lenten rules. I posted the
old recipe without re-reading it, and it claimed to be Lenten, and was not.
I was *glad* to be corrected.

	Tibor