[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #472 - 15 msgs

[Marian Rosenberg]

> Subject: [Sca-cooks] red tower feast?
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 13:05:37 +0000
> From: "Olwen the Odd" <olwentheodd at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>
> A friend posted me the website for Red Tower event and here is how they have
> the feast listed.  I thought it a curious way to advertise a feast.

1.  Not everyone can be the Bright Hills Cooks Guild
2.  Not everyone cooks period
3.  Not everyone thinks period food tastes good, some mistaken,
misguided souls think it tastes bad
4.  Not everyone reads this list, or knows that much about period food
5.  Not everyone can be the Bright Hills Cooks Guild

(speaking of the Guild, would you all please do a better job of
announcing meetings and their locations, I know of at least three people
who always find out about your meetings after they happen.)

6.  Just because you are a member of what is reputed to be one of the
finest cooks' guilds in Atlantia does not mean that everyone else has
this knowledge or skill

(not that I would know anything at all about the skill of the Bright
Hills Cooks Guild since I always find out about your meetings after they
happen)

7.  Some people just don't get it and while they may not need to be put
out of our misery they should at least be gently chided and then
educated
8.  Educate gently and spare the use of the whip

> >>Feast ingredients, from Borgar: "We will be serving beef, chicken, and
> >>pork, for the meats. The most likely veggies: carrots, onions, bell
> >>peppers, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, bean sprouts, and
> >>whatever else I find on sale. We will be using assorted items to season
> >>the cooking with, such as garlic oil, rice wine, chicken broth, beef
> >>broth, soy sauces, hot sauces plus whatever else I can find in the
> >>kitchen."

As for the feast advertisement, it looks like someone with no experience
in advertising saying "this is what I think we'll be eating" and "I am
not actually making the slightest attempt at period food."  (BTW: feel
free to forward my comments back to said person.)

> When I asked about the bell peppers, he said, "they are period... Columbus
> found and named them in 1492 on his trip to the West Indies."

Oh yes!  Of course!  Didn't you know that?  They also took relatively
cheap rotting meat and covered it in ridiculously expensive spices to
hide the fact that someone was too lazy to go to the butcher ...
</sarcasm>

-M