SC - Period cookshop at Pennsic?

[david friedman]

At 1:31 PM -0400 8/26/00, Siegfried Heydrich wrote:
>     One thing that you could offer that would sell like mad would be a field
>lunch - basically a bag lunch for fighters to take with them onto the field.
>Include a bottle of cider (or some natural juice), some cheese, a hard roll,
>a hunk o' sausage, a piece of fruit, and perhaps a selection of pickled
>veggies (especially olives - they're an incredible source of energy that
>won't drop you like a rock after they're metabolized), and maybe a handful
>of nuts or trail mix. No processed sugars that will spike your insulin, and
>then leave you like a limp rag just as the battle reaches the critical
>stage.

That might be a worthwhile project, but I don't think it is the same 
project as a period cookshop. One reason to do the latter is to 
introduce people to tasty period food. But your list could just as 
easily have been written for a modern context--the things you 
describe may be period, but they are (aside from pickled vegetables) 
also common modern things.

David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
ddfr at best.com
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/