SC - encouraging newbies

[Christina van Tets]

Hello the list!  I know, I'm three days behind...

Ras wrote:
>Forme of Curry is
hey, does this mean that we have pre-British Empire Indian food in England?? 
  Sorry :)

The real message is this one:
Katerine wrote
>
> >Hey, Cooks!  How do y'all run your redaction groups?
>
>Sounds like a good idea.  We tried to put one together a couple of years
>back for the College, and that flopped in it's face.  Not enough enthusiasm
>from the crowds, who likes the sound of a feed, but not the cooking it.
>How does one get over that hurdle and encourage interest in cooking?  Any
>ideas?

And my thoughts on the matter are:  no problem!  Make it sound like a game!  
We had 20 mundane people over the other night, who go to 'cooking classes' 
(read:  they turn up and watch) regularly here on the research station.  
They made and tended the fire, they baked bread over it, they made pasta 
from scratch, they didn't use a single modern recipe - or the stove.  I 
translated some of the recipes into modern words, but not all, and they 
handled them beautifully.  And some of the people have come up to me 
afterwards and said (a) ow much fun they thought it was and (b) that they've 
actually tried the recipes at home as well.  Can you tell I'm bragging yet?

Cairistiona


>The Cameline sauce I prepared for Ras's Testicles dish at Pennsic last year 
>  (snipped a goodish bit) >Elysant
>
Unless you were fishing for responses, did you really mean this, Elysant?
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