SC - Rich and Poor Banquet

[Olwen the Odd]

Selene, that sounds like a wonderful idea!  Now I shall have to take your 
idea to our next cook's guild meeting.


>From: Susan Fox-Davis <selene at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: SC - Definitions and Examples: Period, Peri-oid and OOP
>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:35:32 -0700
>
>Bear wrote:
>
> > White potatoes were known in period and sometimes were eaten, but there 
>is
> > nothing
> > to indicate they were used for much beyond poverty fare.  So serving 
>them at
> > a noble banquet, would be a major anachronism.  Thus it could be said 
>that
> > potatoes are "period" and that potatoes are not "period."  Both 
>statements
> > are technically correct, but without modifying information they are
> > misleading.
>
>This gives me a wicked notion for a two-course banquet, "Rich and Poor."  
>First
>course to be the kinds of foods that only the rich could afford in period 
>[now
>common fare like Chicken and White Bread], and the second made up of 
>'poverty
>fare,' say, lobster, potatoes and wild salad.  I need some more input on 
>what
>goes where, but this could be quite educational.
>
>Selene
>selene at earthlink.net
>
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