SC - Rich and Poor Banquet
Olwen the Odd
olwentheodd at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 29 06:49:18 PDT 2000
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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