SC - Held up feast
Donna Kenton
donna at dabbler.com
Mon Sep 22 11:00:24 PDT 1997
Ron Martino Jr wrote:
> These are the recent immigrants from Artemisia, neh? It wasn't
> quite
> that bad for them, unless they drove really slow (this being the land
> of
> 75+ mph speed limits), or had their children with them
Oh, probably. They said that once in a while, they had to fly to an
event. Of course, if you have to work, and are *required* to be at a
certain event, I suspect that can happen.
> As a result, most of our events do take place on a single day,
> with
> Friday and Sunday being travel days.
I *will* put my foot in my mouth, won't I? This is exactly what I meant
by events taking all weekend.
> There's a long tradition of having feasts at events, but most who cook
> them either don't care about choosing appropriate dishes, or have
> serious misconceptions about what medieval food was like.
I'd heard that, too. I also heard about the feast where a certain lady
said, "I want steak and potatoes. Document it, and serve it to me."
Apparently, the cooks managed to do so.
Rosalinde
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