SC - head cook vs. feastocrat

[Mary Morman]

In a message dated 97-10-15 06:55:33 EDT, you write:

<< I've started using head cook instead of
 > feastocrat in many situations >>

My objections are based on several things.

1> Use of the word cook distills a meaning of servitude and lowly estate in
many people's minds which is basically equal to the images called up by the
word janitor or maid.

2> Head cook is a term which is as equally unperiod as feastocrat.

3> In our shire breakfast, lunch and feast are managed by 3 seperate persons.
The use of head cook for feastocrat is at best misleading considering that
here the cook in charge of the feast has no input and nothing to do with the
other meals being presented at the event.

4> Just as there were Stewards, Chatelaine's and other offices in the Castle,
there must have been a term for the person in charge of the  kitchen. The
closest I have come to finding it so far is "butler" but that has a different
meaning in the modern world and stirs up just as many negative images as
"cook".

I don't know what the answer is I'm sure that one of our period language
geeks should have a term or two they could throw out to us.

Ras
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