SC - hiding ingredients

[david friedman]

On a tangent:

At 12:08 PM -0500 3/2/00, Casey  O'Donovan wrote:

>  Especially since we offer
>so many removes during the typical feast.

1. "Remove" is not, SCA culture to the contrary, a period term for 
"course." "Course" is.

2. So far as I can tell from menus, the typical English or French 
medieval feast had two or three courses, each containing a number of 
different dishes. So to the extent the typical feast has many 
courses, that probably represents another case where the SCA is, by 
implication, teaching bad history.

None of which is Casey's fault, of course, but I thought I would take 
the opportunity of a single sentence that demonstrated two of the 
things wrong with what we teach people.

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