SC - creations and creativity

[Mary Morman]

kateryn,

could you start out by sending me a copy of the calontir criteria for
judging?  and some commentary on how they came to be changed?  maybe even
a copy of what they were before they were changed?  this sounds like
definitely the way to start!

i also share bear's discouragement on seeing a costume laurel or an
armourer or a dance master being asked to judge cooking competitions.  it
all to often turns into "what i like" rather than "what is appropriate".

elaina

On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Debra Hense wrote:

> <<Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 13:14:01 -0600 (MDT)
> <<From: Mary Morman <memorman at oldcolo.com>
> <<Subject: SC - creations and creativity
> 
> <snipped>
> 
> <<my problem however is the current A&S standards.  My kingdom (the
> Outlands) and to the best of my knowledge most kingdoms, have a checklist
> that they go through in rating A&S entries.  One of the categories is
> creativity.  Last fall one of my apprentices did a masterful redaction of
> a period recipe complete with extensive documentation and very tasty
> results.  However, she was marked -down- for not being 'creative' in
> working with her recipe.  The insinuation was that if she had added some
> additional ingredients or a different cooking method then her score would
> have been perfect.  This was not by any means the first time that i've had
> to deal with this.
> >>
> <rest snipped>
> <<Elaina>>
> 
> This problem is the result of improperly written competition criteria in
> combination with a misunderstanding of the term creativity as it applies to
> different A&S categories.  What should be done is someone gets together
> with the Kingdom A&S Minister and either rewrite that particular category
> to more properly describe what is meant by creativity as it applies to the
> different A&S categories. Or, you propose a new set of criteria to be used
> for cooking with that particular item eliminated.  Calontir rewrote their
> cooking criteria about five years ago. I don't recall a creativity category
> being in the final version.  Aroma, appearance, presentation, taste,
> documentation, interpretation of recipe, logical ingredient substitution,
> method of preparation, degree of difficulty, but no creativity.  
> 
> Perhaps this could be discussed in a future issue of Serve It Forth?   With
> various people sending in copies of their competition criteria as it
> applies to cooking, we could then compare them side by side, and using the
> best points of each come up with good set of generic cooking competition
> criteria we could then use for interkingdom cooking competitions. 
> 
> Kateryn de Develyn
> nickiandme at worldnet.att.net
> 
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