SC - Computerized recipe thing

[Peldyn@aol.com]

I am glad to see Peers that will go the literal "extra mile" with their
students.  My Lord and I live in the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas.  The nearest
group is a small (new) Incipient group made up of young college students.  The
nearest groups with any Peerage is a 3 hours drive one way.  My own Pelican
lives in Atlanta, GA and my husband's Knight (hubby is a squire) live in almost
center Mississippi.  We all work very hard to make the relationships work.  The
Knight travels north and my husband travels south to meet in the Middle as often
as possible.  They talk on the computer and on the telephone and keep each other
posted on what they bother need and require.  As a protégé my service to my Peer
is service to the Society.  I keep her posted to what I am doing, how I am
doing, seek her advice and counsel...attempt to follow it, serve where I can.
We have both been in the SCA a great many years and this helps.  I can see if
the student is young in age, experience, etc. and might need more "hands-on"
guidance, that a "closer" Peer would be preferred.  But there are many SCAdian
out there in the middle of nowhere that could still benefit from the formal
relationship with a Peer.  My Lord and I consider ourselves very lucky to have
Peers that understand and work with us.

THLady Rayne
Meridies

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> "HICKS, MELISSA" wrote:
> >
> > Why the geographic proximity?  Is it something to do with cross-Kingdom
> > politics or is it simply that cooking is a hands-on activity?
> >
> > Have any of you taken on a cooking apprentice that isn't in the same
> > geographic area?
>
> I may live to regret this, but here goes anyway:
>
> I myself was apprenticed to a costume laurel, Master Geoffrey d'Ayr of
> Montalban, a.k.a. Bish, who lived about fifty miles away from me.
> However, neither of us drives or owns a car, and Bish has a wide
> interest in various other outlets for the costumer's and needleworker's
> art: sci-fi/fantasy conventions, various non-SCA living history type
> endeavors, etc. As a result he would get to perhaps three or four events
> a year, with, maybe, if we were lucky, one of those being an event we
> could both get to. We communicated by mail and phone, e-mail still being
> a bit unusual at the time. It probably made things more difficult than
> they had to be in certain aspects, but overall I have no regrets.
>
> I have pretty much decided that for the most part I won't take any
> apprentices from too far from where I live, for a few reasons. Yes,
> cooking is sometimes a hands-on art, and tasting is not something you
> really can do via long-distance, at least not without difficulty. Then
> there's the question of proper training in the English martial art of
> cuskynole. Can't do that well long-distance. Tried it and people are
> still talking about it. In addition, and equally practical, is the issue
> of teaching the apprentice to be a peer, and persuading the other peers
> and the Crown of the apprentice's kingdom to accept him/her as such.
>
> So, as an example of what I'm talking about, when it became time to
> consider whether to accept a cook from another kingdom as an apprentice
> a while back, I had to think not only about what I thought I could teach
> him, but also what I could do to accomplish getting this person his
> peerage. It seemed to me that I'd have a much more difficult time than
> someone local, because I know maybe three laurels in the kingdom in
> question, and I seriously doubted my ability to sway a roomful of
> laurels (many kingdoms do poll their peers on candidates; in the
> "Eastern Rite" kingdoms the king's word is not _necessarily_ law) from
> not only another kingdom, but a kingdom which had recently split off
> from my own under some tension. As a result I decided the best thing to
> do was to offer to teach the gentleman as my student, until he could
> make arrangements with a more local laurel to take him on as an
> apprentice. This has since occurred, and all seems to be well.
>
> If, on the other hand, he had been my apprentice, I suspect he might
> have remained so for many, many years, and probably much less happy
> about it than under his current circumstances.
>
> I might still consider taking on an apprentice from another kingdom or
> from far away, but for the most part only as a last resort -- if the
> person simply has no other option for one reason or another.
>
> Adamantius
> --
> Phil & Susan Troy
>
> troy at asan.com
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