SC - Cilantro and Pine Nuts Salad

[Jane M Tremaine]

In a message dated 6/16/00 1:09:51 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
ddfr at best.com writes:

> To a considerable 
>  extent, if you cultivate an ear for such things, you can separate the 
>  real expert/enthusiasts from the fakers without actually knowing the 
>  subject.

I guess my ear needs more cultivation, and I'm sure that it will come in 
time. At the time I was being addressed, however, I had been playing less 
than two months and had been "volunteered" for the assignment of cooking the 
feast.

I think my reluctance to address the "expert" at the time probably had a lot 
to do with that. And I see it in some new people now who have joined 
households right off the bat, get into disagreements with them, and then are 
told/implied/scared into thinking that they cannot play anymore because of 
the household political disagreement. I've sat many people down that this 
happened to and explained that households, as an actual being, don't exist in 
the official structure of the SCA and that they can continue to play despite 
not being connected to one. We now offer SCA101 classes here to help aclimate 
people to what the basis of the SCA is, rules, regs, and all the ins and outs 
to avoid these type of situations. But at the time I joined, the classes 
weren't offered and I felt I didn't have the right or authority to dispute 
the matter. Because of that, as I said, I treat new people very gently and 
carefully. 

Lars