SC - Okay, my life just got interesting...

[david friedman]

At 3:01 PM -0900 1/17/00, Kerri Canepa wrote:

>If any of you were to become Royalty and could influence the culinary sphere,
>what would you like to see happen?

Have suitable period nibbles available to give to people who are 
visiting the royalty. Hospitality was an important period virtue, and 
it is an opportunity to expose people to period cooking.

A different suggestion, not culinary but to do with royalty at feasts:

In my experience, places at high table are usually allocated to the 
highest ranking people around. This is a mistake. From the standpoint 
of the senior duke in the room, being at high table isn't a 
particular honor, and he would probably prefer to eat with his 
friends. From the standpoint of a relatively new person, it is a 
stunning honor.

The policy I recommend is to keep a couple of places at high table 
open. At some point during the event, someone you don't know will do 
something that impresses you--fight beautifully even though he is 
relatively new, go to a lot of trouble to help other people, tell a 
moving period story, turn out to be a blacksmith who makes beautiful 
period cooking equipment, ...  . Invite him and his lady (or her and 
her lord) to join you at high table.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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