SC - FoodTV idea

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Heh.  How about getting one of our listies as the chef du jour on "Door Knock
Dinners"?  I just dare them to show up at my house some time.  Whatever would
they make of the contents of my kitchen?  Convenience foods vs. esoteric
ingredients, turkey pot pie and grains of paradise, more kinds of rice and flour
than they can ever comprehend, etc. and O The Gadgets.  Not to mention the three
floor-to-ceiling units of bookshelves just for cookbooks.  Heh again.

Phooey.  We need to do our own cooking videos and use them as audition tapes for
Food Network.  Are our folk any less bright and able than some of those worthies
who have their own shows on TV?  Put another way:  there's so much crud on TV,
some of it might as well be OUR crud!

Selene

Catherine Deville wrote:

>  Andrea wrote:
> > "who dreams that some day she will be a part of an AUTHENTIC meal in a
> real
> > public setting  which would  documentable, educational, and magical".
>
> and Orlaith replied:
> > Okay, so we all agree that we would love to see a real attempt at a
> period SCA
> > meal done on a cooking show.  Odds are pretty good that we are not going
> to
> > see any of them do this however.  What about doing one on our own?
> Surely
> > within this group there are people who have contacts able to do a taping
> and I
> > know that there are people here who would love to organize/cook such a
> feast.
> >
> >
> > Is there anyone with the contacts who could contact Home and Garden tv,
> PBS,
> > FoodTV or the Food Network and sell the concept of one time special?
> True it
> > would have to be a volunteer effort and even the thought of breaking even
> is
> > unlikely but it would educate people as well as satisfying that craving
> for a
> > GOOD historic cooking show.
>
> ... just an idea... but perhaps we should add the History Channel to that
> list.  I would think that they would be most likely to support the idea of
> an attempt at actual authenticity, and you might well be able to expand the
> program so that it showcased the SCA as a historical research organization
> and include information on other SCA activities.  IIRC they have done
> programs on living history groups in the past, so they might be interested
> in a program (or even a series of programs... they're known for such
> things) on the SCA as an organization.  The number of participants in the
> SCA world wide might be a selling point for them, as they often turn their
> programs into video collections and SCA members might be likely to invest
> in such a thing if it were *well done*... so you might get them to invest
> in it if you pitched it to them right.
>
> Now... perhaps someone should get in touch with the aformementioned person
> from the EK list who replied to the foodtv post saying that they had
> experience with historical documentaries and see what can be done?
>
> just some ideas to bounce around...
>
> I remain, in service to Meridies,
> Lady Celia des L'archier