SC - Potluck feasts / was SC-kitchens

[Karen Lyons-McGann]

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>I find that something helps encourage folks to bring medieval food is ME
>bringing medieval food and very prominently labelling it as such.

This is one of the things I try to do in Bryn Gwlad with the items I
bring to pot lucks. Usually I print the original recipe in large type
on a sheet of paper along with the redaction. I give both the original
source and where the redaction can be found,
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Food for thought:

A label is good, but as for all the other documentation, be careful not 
to over do it!  Somone will say the above described isn't much 
documentation. From a newbie's perspective, it's a daunting thought that 
one must research a dish and type up a page on it as well as shopping and 
cooking.  Are you discouraging rank beginners by giving the impression 
that just bringing something they think is period but they don't know for 
sure, isn't good enough?  Newbies are being assaulted with so much info 
and impressions that some could just come up with this upon seeing a 
table full of modern stuff and the occaisional highly documented period 
dish, and nothing in-between.   Perhaps this mis-conception of just how 
authentic the dish must be and how much proof is necessary contributes to 
the volume of modern dishes.   

Anne-Marie was kind enough to send along her list of ready-made stuff 
that could be considered not modern, if not period exactly, and her set 
of easy recipes.    It's like babysteps to period cooking, and anyone 
wanting to encourage more period cooking should see hers or work up 
something similar on their own.

Anne

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