SC - Emeril on medieval cooking
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Etain1263 at aol.com
Tue May 16 17:59:49 PDT 2000
>What is *Medieval Times*?
>Phillipa
Anyone here listen to the Public Radio show, "This American Life"? A
few months back, there was a show in which the host, Ira Glass, took
an Englishman who is a professor of Medieval history at a good
university in Chicago, where the show is produced, to visit a local
"Medieval Times". The Brit *liked* the place!
"Medieval Times" is owned by a corporation. There are quite a few of
them around the US - big warehouse-like buildings tarted up to look
castle-oid. You are greeted by the King and Queen who don't even
speak as well as we do at Ren Faires. You are assigned a color, given
some sort of disposable thingy to wear in that color, which is the
color of the "knight" in the joust for whom you will cheer.
They serve what they tell you is medieval food - roast chicken and
vegetables and bread - then in a puff of smoke Merlin the Wizard
appears and announces the joust. Everyone is overly miked - or much
of what they say may well be on tape. There are, IIRC, four jousters.
On different evenings, a different one is chosen to be the "bad guy".
They do the joust. It's a lot like the ones at the big Ren Fairs.
There's more inauthentic scenic color. The professor said that even
though most of it wasn't at all authentic in the details, he felt
they had captured the spirit of Medieval pomp and hospitality.
But, hey, don't take my word for it. Have the Virtual Experience:
http://medievaltimes.com/
Anahita al-shazhiyya
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