[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #474 - 11 msgs

[Marian Rosenberg]

> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Showmanship-was:Pennsic Iron Chef Results
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:44:39 EDT
> From: Druighad at aol.com
> Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>
> In a message dated 8/27/01 9:13:19 AM Central Daylight Time,
> debra.dunbar at aspenpubl.com writes:
>
> << I'm sure some Abbott got into a bragging match with another over whose cook
>  was the best?  I find it hard to believe that cooking competitions aren't
>  "period".
>  Wrynne
>   >>
> I remember reading somewhere a lo-n-g time ago that food was a way to show
> off one's wealth. Obviously, I would think, that the better chefs were used
> to show off their talents to impress other nobility who were visiting. So
> yeah, someone would probably  say "See what a grand cook I have! I'll bet
> your cooks and scullery maids couldn't do half this well." Sorry to be making
> suppositions, but human nature is definitely into one-ups-manship.
>
> Finnebhir.

Why does it need to be an "Iron Chef Competition" or a "Rattan Chef
Competition?"

Why can't it be a mere contest?  Why can't it be a contest with a
peri-oid name or a peri-oid style?

-M