SC - Kentwell Part 2 (also long)

[Karen Lyons-McGann]

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Thats all I can think of at the moment.  I have got photos of some
of the set-ups I mention, but since I don't have a web site, that's not 
much
help!  If you needed photos ffor a specific purpose I could probably 
help. 
	Questions welcome!
	Caroline
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Caroline

I wasn't wishing for pics, but now you've mentioned you have some I'm 
wild to see them.  Would Kentwell or the groups you work with now  
find/pay someone to post these for their own promotional purposes?   Are 
there any other U.K. readers who have a scanner and a website?   Please 
offer to help get these up! I especially want to see the 7 ft tall log on 
a trestle used to set up the out door kitchen.  If we could  get that 
duplicated at Pennsic and you over to teach--heaven!!   (If no nearby 
volunteers appear, I have a scanner and can put them on a site.  If 
you'll pay postage here, I'll pay the return.)   

The nearest I've seen to the Kentwell kitchen is the Governor's Palace 
kitchen at Williamsburg Virginia.  However, the tour line does push the 
observers through so you don't really get a clear look at things.  They 
don't  keep a daily schedule such as you describe at Kentwell since 
Health Dept. Regulations prevent them actually feeding anyone, even 
employees.  Every single item is eventually thrown in the garbage.  
Probably to reduce the scandalous waste a daily schedule would create, 
they take all week to build up a single tableful of dishes "waiting" in 
the kitchen  to be carried into the dining room.  It would be a lovely 
groaning banquet, except that by weeks end when the bulk of the tourists 
arrive,  most dishes look less than appetizing due to sitting out for 
days.  Dried out, withered, beginning to discolor and generally 
disgusting.  This might add to the misconception of period food being 
gross.   I could do with out the plastic food items displayed at the 
governor's dining table, sooner look at an empty table.  No,  they aren't 
toy foods, but rather well made reproductions like you sometimes see in 
chinese restaurants.  Still, it is plastic.

Anne

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