Master of the Hall? Re: SC - Re: SC- feast options was rant

[Catherine Deville]

> >>niccolo spoke:
> ><<<< . . . . .What's worse is that those around them are reticent to
> >challenge the belief that canned ham and boiled potatoes is great Feast
> >Food.  At least we don't have SPAM or frozen lasagna anymore.>>>>>>>>
> >***** Lady Celia des L'archier replied:
> >Oh!  My!  Goodness!  did you *really* ever have SPAM and/or frozen
lasagna
> >as feast food!?!  now *that* is "inconcievable"  ********

and Maddalenda replied...
> I once was at a feast that was primarily Dinty Moore beef stew, canned
ham,
> heated canned fruit cocktail and some green vegetable.  The interesting
> thing was the wonderful wooden spice box that you could see sitting in
the
> kitchen that had never been touched in making the feast,


+++++ BLASPHEMY ++++

sorry... now that's out of my system...

but really... I've short cut things before, and my very first feast wasn't
even *medieval* (although it *was* Italian, which was what I was asked to
do)... but this isn't even *cooking*.

what commedien(ne) said (I think it was paula poundstone)... that cooking
requires combining at least two ingredients and heating it up.  this
doesn't count!  (unless, of course, one put a glaze on the ham... that
*might* count).

sorry... while I prefer to have at least the *feel* of a medieval feast at
an SCA event, and a *real*, true authentic feast is a real experience, I at
the very *least* expect *good food* and a reasonably decent cook.  Perhaps
I've been lucky, but I don't think I've ever been to a feast (at least not
in Meridies) which wasn't at the very least that.  (There was one event out
of kingdom on a college campus, served in the cafeteria where we had to
file down the hot line and get the food on our trays, but I don't recall
the food being *bad*... just the atmosphere... and I'm sure that they just
did the best they could with their physical constraints.)

at any rate, after hearing some of the horror stories here, I guess I've
just been *really* lucky. <sigh!>


I remain, in service to Meridies,
Lady Celia des L'archier