SC - cooking laurels & drawn butter

[Philip & Susan Troy]

My good Gunthar,

I believe that cooking SCA feasts is a service. That does NOT mean it 
cannot also be an art since the research and develeopment of the recipes 
and so forth is part of the Arts and Sciences. However, the actual 
cooking of the feast is a service to the society just as holding an 
office or autocratting is.  I can certainly imagine folks who event after 
event, year after year are head cooks at SCA feasts making good food 
(period or not, research and redacted or using others redactions) and 
enhancing each event and thus become deserving of a Pelican. I can also 
imagine folks who never cook an SCA feast but who research period 
recipes, foodways and so forth thus becoming deserving of a Laurel. I can 
also imagine folks who do lots of feasts, meticulously researched and 
documented and I would say they could be deserving of both a Laurel and a 
Pelican. It is much the same as Heralds (at least in some kingdoms) where 
the service of Heralding (whether helping design names/devices or field 
or court heraldry) gets appropriate service awards and the research of 
heraldry as done in the middle ages (display, appropriate period devices, 
how names were constructed, etc) gets appropriate A&S awards.

Clarissa
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