SC - Recipe request for trotters

[Kerri Canepa]

Congrats!
Raoghnailt
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From: Anne-Marie Rousseau <acrouss at gte.net>
To: <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>; <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 1:05 a.m.
Subject: SC - Laurel vs Pelican for cooking


> hey all from Anne-Marie
>
> I recieved my Pelican in AS 26. One of the specific things they mentioned
> in the accolade was my time spent in the kitchen, at every level, from
> scrubbing pots to organizing huge banquets.
>
> I recieved my Laurel this last weekend. One of the specific things they
> mentioned in the accolade was my time spent in the kitchen, but also the
> research that went into it.
>
> I had always considered kitchen work a service. The research I do was
> simply a way to serve better, I mean, after all, we're a MEDIEVAL society,
> so in theory, we should be eating medieval food, right? Imagine my suprise
> when the Laurel Council of An Tir thought that it, along with some other
> artsy stuff I do, was Laurel matieral.
>
> It was explained to me in great and graphic detail (along with some stern
> shaking and a bap or three on the side of the head) that cooking is
serving
> when it feeds people. Cooking is an art/science when you add to the body
of
> knowledge and create something new.
>
> A Laurel in An Tir, I was told, with stern finger waggling, is recognition
> for mastery of your art form. You have mastered the medium when you have
> internalized the information to such a degree that you can manipulate it
at
> will. They cited specific examples....lots of people can cook feasts. lots
> of people can cook feasts that are tasty and even use medieval recipes.
The
> Master can cook feasts, pulling together resources from their knowledge of
> period cooking sources, tailoring it to the situation and the audience.
>
> at least, this was how it was explained by a bunch of An Tirian Laurels to
> a rather dumbstruck Pelican in the middle of the night, during her vigil,
> when she kept sputtering "but cookings a service!!"
>
> Obviously I still have a lot to learn...
> --AM
>
>
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