OT - Re: SC - Re: saffron

[Jeff Gedney]

> I think you forget one very important thing about this 
> Society, and that is the "Creative" portion of the name.  

BZZZZZZZZ!

I charge you Guilty of "Revisionist History"!
Thank you for playing

The name "Society for Creative Anachronism"  was thought roughly up 
ten seconds before filling out some paperwork to use a park in San 
Francisco. 

"'Name of Organization'...   Hmmm  Idunno...   
Hey, we need a name!"

Marion Zimmer Bradley: " oh!, uh... How about the Society for ummmm...
 Creative Anachronism?"

"Cool! We'll put that down, thanks"

What the name was never designed for was to be used to justify calling
Phillie Cheese steaks period, just because all the ingredients existed before
1601, and hundreds of other similar invocations, ranging from "elves" at 
events to Peg-legged-Long-John-Silver-wannabe "pyrates", to singing 
rockabilly ballads at events.

If you change the recipe, by substituting an ingredient, you are not 
cooking a documnetably period recipe, you are cooking your own recipe.
this is OK. say it is your recipe cooked in a period style, and take credit for it.
it is not OK to call it a Period dish.

brandu