SC - Re: OMIGOD- HAPPY MEALS AT CROWN TOURNEY

[LrdRas@aol.com]

>"While I am on the subject of food, let me address feast in general.  More 
>than anything, his Highness and I want our populace to be able to eat the 
>food that their populace has paid for.  So when we step up, we request that 
>all Feastcrats endeavor to stay away from all period feasts.  We do not mind 
>if some removes are of a period nature, however, we wish other removes of a 
>more easily digested by the majority-of-the-populace nature!  We understand 
>the reason that totally period feasts are cooked, but in some cases our 
>populace is paying the price for historical accuracy: and their 
>twentieth-century palates (and sometimes tummies) are unable to appreciate 
>the research and effort that went into cooking that particular time period."
>
>When I read this, I had to stop and go back and read it again.  In fact, I 
>have read this particular passage at least twenty times in the past 24
hours. 
> I'm wondering if my reaction to this passage is going to dissipate, given 
>enough time to forget about it.  Am I wrong?  Is this just a moment of 
>unthinking lunacy, or are we here in Trimaris, who find cooking period
feasts 
>to be one of our most joyous and delightful pastimes, just going to have to 
>suck it up and serve Happy Meals to high table?  I'm just dismayed at this 
>point to have the future Queen of Trimaris (traditionally, the patroness and 
>fosterer of the arts & sciences),who is herself a member of the Order of the 
>Laurel, plainly and most distressingly discourage the practitioners of our 
>particular art and science for the duration.  It's going to be a jungle of a 
>reign; if I start growling now, I'll never last.
>
>Forgive my snarling.  Like all else which has come before, this too shall 
>pass.  Thanks for listenting.
>
>Walk in peace,
>Wolfmother
>aka Baroness Dianna Wyndalan of Kidwelly
>

That sounds like a Challenge of Honor to me!  :)  We had a delightful
Chicken dish of Milk and Honey at a Revel recently that was 14th or 15th
century Period.  Perhaps your goal for the duration should be, rather than
to impress with the most bizzare and "strange" recipes, to find PERIOD
recipes that most resemble Modern foods??  Certainly they served some sort
of chicken soup in Medival times?  Chicken, vegetables and water were
readily available, I would think?  And what about these cuskynoles people
keep getting so excited about?  My 4 yr. old son had some beef (?)
cuskynoles in a white cream sauce at this revel, and he LOVED them!!!
better than he EVER eats Ravioli at home.  I think perhaps it was the Cream
sauce...  
That rosted Turkey that was dressed up as a peacock sounded delightful, and
I suspect High Table has had common roast turkey once or twice in mundane
life...
If I am not mistaken, the SCA is supposed to be a fun thing for everyone.
Maybe the era of this Crown will be a good time for newcomers to join, and
attend a feast where they feel very comfortable and familiar with the foods
served.  Then, when the NEXT crown takes the throne, you can throw the Tame
Birds in a Crust at them!  :)  Don't get mad about it, doesn't help anyone,
least of all yourself, to get ruffled.  Accept the challenge and see if you
can't impress the new King and Queen with some truly delectable PERIOD
dishes that greatly resemble modern foods???

Just my 2 cents worth.  Take it or leave it, won't cost you any more. :)

BTW, I found a neat web site tonight that some of you might be interested
in - it has excellent color pictures of many many many surnames' Coats of
Arms.  I found Wells, Holland and Beebe.  Longbotham, Terrell and Mills
were not listed.
Maybe you can find yours!
http://www.designsofwonder.com/

- -Laurene
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