SC - Kitchen steward

[Stefan li Rous]

Gunthar said:

>Although Kitchen Steward sounds nice, here in Ansteorra (partly through the
>efforts of those on this list) the term Steward is gaining in popularity over
>the term Autocrat. I just worry that the terms could become confused. Personally
>I like either "Chef de cuisine", Ann-Marie's "cuisiner", or Master A's "kitchener".
>These terms seem more "medieval" and feel right to me.

I was going to mention this fact in response to the question of whether we could
really change the vocabulary of the entire SCA. It has only been in the past six
year that Event Steward has started to be used in Ansteorra but it does seem to
be getting used more and more. Part of our problem seems to be with keeping the
editor(s) from changing it when given in an event announcement back to feastocrat.

I think I could go with any of these, although Chef de cuisine seems pompous to
me and cuisiner reminds me of an electric blender or food processor. But I
guess I could get over it.

>But just about anything is better than feastocrat to my ears.

I agree. I recently changed my filenames to use headcook instead of feastocrat
after some of the comments here. I might change things again. But if I get too
far ahead of the Known World, I'm afraid I'll confuse folks. And as some have
commented, my files can be confusing enough already.

SCA Inc. sends out a vocabulary sheet with the new memberships. I can't 
remember if feastocrat is on there. I know autocrat is. Do you think we could
get that sheet changed?

Lord Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
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