SC - My Last Statement About This Or Anything Else.

[Lee-Gwen Booth]

Unto Suleyman does Gwynydd of Culloden send this Sad Missive:

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Suleyman

>     For the record, I am new to the list.  I've been in the SCA for 10
years,
> but only recently joined this list.  I was *hoping* to find a place where
I
> could pick up some interesting period recipes, maybe share a couple of my
> own, and generally learn more about the skill of feastcratting than I
already
> know.

This List _is_ a place where these wishes can be fulfilled - I am certainly
learning heaps.

>     This list is not worth the aggravation.  I am sorry I ever was stupid
> enough to subscribe to it.  I find several of you to be hidebound,
> closed-minded, and rude.  Not all of you by any means.  But enough of you.

Actually, while some people on this List may be "hide-bound", and a few can
be (usually accidentally - which is what I believe was true in your case,
too) rude,  I do not believe that any of the posts I have seen in response
to your comments have been "closed-minded".  Certainly, List members expect
documentation to back up statements of fact, but would you really expect
less?  Surely if this were not the case, this List _would_ lose a large part
of its value?

I have to say that I didn't think that your original comments were really
worth all the noise that has been made, but, at the same time, they were
comments which perhaps should not have been made in quite that way.  I
personally doubt that you meant to denigrate HG Cariadoc, but your tone was
intemperate.  Perhaps you should have offered productive suggestions to the
List about Turkish cooking instead?

>     Correction:  it is JVButlerJr at aol.com who posted the comments about
> Cariadoc's area of research, not Cariadoc himself.  And it wasn't
> RButler96 at aol.com.  Please read *all* of the message before commenting on
it,
> and when you point fingers and assign blame, please do so toward the
correct
> people.

> But don't take it out on my wife.  She is a lovely
> person and is quite the talented chef.

I am afraid that mistakes like this can happen - we have seen it often
enough here to know that, but I am sure that no offence was intended towards
your Lady Wife.
I will be sorry to see you go because another experienced cook is never a
bad thing.  I would have enjoyed learning from you as I have from the other
cooks on this List.

Gwynydd of Culloden (Ynys Fawr, Lochac, Kingdom of the West)
(a copy of this has - I hope! - been sent to the List as well as to
JVButlerJr at aol.com.)