Goodbye (RANT) (Was: Re: SC - Is Arrowroot Period?)

[CBlackwill@aol.com]

Huzzah, Ras!!!  Well said!!!

Huette

- --- LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/4/00 2:33:09 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time, 
> CBlackwill at aol.com writes:
> 
> <<  I, on the other hand, will not blindly follow
> ANY written 
>  recipe if I know that the end result is going to
> taste like swill.  That's 
>  what separates us, I guess. >>
> 
> Examples, please? IMO, what separates us is lack of
> experience in this 
> particular field.
> 
> I have never produced a period recipe that has
> tasted like 'swill' when the 
> recipe was followed faithfully other than the recent
> olive recipe in which 
> the definition of the main ingredient was clearly at
> fault. I rarely deviate 
> from the written recipe and, when I do, I clearly
> indicate that the dish is 
> period-like and not to be construed as an accurate
> example of the recipe. My 
> feasts are traditionally sold out well in advance of
> the event. I am not 
> bragging about my abilities as a cook in regard to
> period food although they 
> are in no way insignificant. My experience certainly
> does not suggest that 
> following any period recipe accurately will produce
> 'swill.' A bad cook is a 
> bad cook and he or she will produce bad food whether
> they deviate from a 
> given recipe (IMO, the leading reason for the bad
> food) or not.
> 
> Many of us on this list spend a considerable amount
> of time and money at our 
> craft and, frankly, I find your attitude a not
> little offensive. It seems to 
> denigrate years of research and hard work on the
> part of all the fine 
> historical cooks both on and off this list. The
> collective results of this 
> hard work gives lie to any suggestion that period
> food and the recipes that 
> have come down to us produce bad food when
> accurately produced. If you are 
> truly interested in the subject there are many fine
> redactions on Stefan's 
> Flori-thingy, Master Huen's website (The Boke of
> Gode Cokery), Cindy 
> Renfrow's website, and Dr. Gloning's site (which,
> BTW, is a source for 
> another period cookbook outside Vehling's
> dramatically flawed translation of 
> Apicius).
> 
> Yours in Service to the Dream,
> al-Sayyid A'aql ibn Rashid al-Zib, AOL, OSyc, OKey
> His Majesty's Tailor
> Guildmaster of the Guild of St. Martha
> Apprenticed to Master Huen
> Grumpy Old Fart and arrogant schmuck
>
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