SC - TI Article - Support Kitchen
LrdRas at aol.com
LrdRas at aol.com
Sun Sep 10 21:47:34 PDT 2000
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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