SC - My last word on Feast-o-crats

[Bonne]

LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 7/26/98 1:33:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> oftraquair at hotmail.com writes:
> 
> << What duties does the word "cook" not include? Research and documentation?
>  Maybe not, but to me, that part of it is "persona" and "hobby".  >>
> 
> True. A cook is a cook. I cannot disagree with you. However, during the Middle
> Ages into the modern era, (and , actually, before the Middle Ages) tasks not
> directly dealing with the act of cookery were, in large estates and
> households, delegated to a number of other people. Seneschal, Steward, Carver,
> Panner, Baker, Brewer, ad infinitum come to mind. The acts of purchasing
> provisions, planning menus, directing specific hunts, slaughtering were almost
> without exception performed by second and sometijmes third parties.
...snip...I have thought about this long and hard and
> think I have an exceptable compromise. Since there is no knopwn period
> equivalent and feast-o-crat has become offensive to many perhaps an equally
> non-period term would sound better. My proposal is Kitchen Steward. Literally
> it could be interpreted as "protecter of the Kitchen". And if that doesn't
> describe what an SCA head cook does  nothing ever will. :-)
> 
> Ras (Kitchen Steward for Silver Rhyll's Fall Event). :-)

Makes sense.  I like it.  But, I think we are doing well if we can convert
people to "cook" instead of "feastocrat".  Another term entirely is gonna be
hard to establish.

Bonne
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