SC - European Food

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/10/00 6:38:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
JVButlerJr at aol.com writes:

<< "Pre-1650" covers 
 a lot of ground, and nowhere does it say "Ignore everything that is not 
 Western Europe."
 
     Suleyman >>

It's pre-1600 except for  fencers. ;-) But who's counting? I live in Baghdad 
most of the year. A culture, BTW, that is west of China.  I have SCA friends 
that live in Japan. That is a culture west of North America. Perspective 
means everything. :-) I also know people in the SCA who live in  France which 
is EAST of Andalusia which is a more western culture than England and, if the 
Corpora is to be adhered to religiously Andalusian personas should be the 
ideal of what the SCA is all about (e.g., Western culture).

Many folks chose English personas because there is a lot of late period 
manuscripts and documentation which makes for familiarity with the culture. 
My point being...I don't really see that it matters a great deal to most SCA 
folks where you are from so long as you play the game correctly. :-)

Ras