SC - Late-period is NOT Medieval

[Christi Redeker]

Pax wrote: (Very long first lines snipped)

>Have to return a *little* rant for rant:
>Beginning of rant: the SCA covers the period of time extending
>through the END of the 1600's, and therefore it is entirely proper
>and respectable to occasionally include dishes, spices, or methods
>of preparation documentable to this time scope in an SCA setting.
>(Don't try to pass them off as 11th century Nordic recipes, of course...)

I think that the recreation attitude is that most individuals would have been of higher noble rankings.  If I had the money and availability to feed my friends steak for dinner, would I choose (no offense folks) to feed them spam for a nice dinner party?  Probably not.  Just because peasants may (possibility) have eaten a certain food when they were hungry, did that mean that their King ate them, again probably not.

If your persona is a traveler and could have come to the New World and experienced their food, then by all means, your persona may have fed that to their King when they returned.  

As I see it, it is all in how you play the game.

Murkial (whose persona never even heard of the new world except as a distant place her Viking lord's friends plundered once, and got routed by the local indians)

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