cooks games was:SC - feedback requested
E. Rain
raghead at liripipe.com
Wed Nov 1 08:26:06 PST 2000
Good morning from Eden freshly back from 4 weeks in Europe.
Jadwiga wrote:
> Of course, it's easy to get into a conversation that consists
> entirely of
> what I call 'reference trading', which basically
> re-capitualtes a ot of
> the discussions on period topics, and which would in my opinion make a
> great SCA card game: perhaps a competitive sport ofr laurels.
> (you could
> do a set of cards with kingdom law, corpora and GP&D on it
> for pelicans.)
> As in, Mistress X plays a Markham on sauces; Master Y tops it
> with a de
> Nola on sauces; Mistress Z changes the topic suit with a de Nola on
> agriculture...
>
this reminds me of the dinner party game we invented recently. Someone on
this list had mentioned the Gillian Riley "rennaisance Recipes" book, but
couldn't remember the name & so described it physically. I was mentioning
this at dinner with a bunch of other period cookbook collectors & it just
blossomed naturally into the 'describe a book by it's color(s) size &
binding and everyone else has to guess which one it is' game. "what's small
red and hardbound?" for 'Fit for a Queen' etc. Surprisingly cariadoc's
miscellany was a total stumper even though everyone had a copy. We later
expanded out to non medieval cookbooks too where I was completely baffled by
our friend Jeff whose betty crocker is in reverse colors to mine :->
like spitting eggs - "it is a folly and the sport of cooks"
Eden
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