SC - Radio program on 1527 feast

[David Dendy]

In a message dated 9/10/00 11:51:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
morgancain at earthlink.net writes:

<< If you have experience at making a successful, completely period support
 kitchen, I am sure that TI would welcome your article.  However, don't go
 trash-talking an article detailing a HIGHLY successful program just
 because it does not meet YOUR standards.
 
                    ---= Morgan, who had thought better of some people >>

Actually, the article was not trash so much as being inappropriate for TI, 
IMO. While the idea of a field kitchen is commendable (and I am sure that 
there are houses that do a wonderful job feeding the fighters at Pennsic) , I 
am still of the opinion that TI articles should be geared toward period 
solutions and not geared toward modern solutions. The facts are that armies 
were fed during period and they were fed with period food. The picture of the 
Italian Military Field kitchen that appears on Cindy Renfrow's site is an 
example of a period solution to feeding armies.

Mountain Confederation succeeds admirably well feeding its fighters at 
Pennsic and does so without using Twinkies, which are really medically 
unsound under battle conditions anyhow. They merely raise the sugar level 
temporarily and are followed by a crash of gargantuan proportions. No matter 
how 'great' a group does there are always room for improvements. Getting rid 
of the Twinkies would be a major one, IMO.

More discernment on the part of TI editors would be another.

Ras
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