[Sca-cooks] Pennsic Iron Chef Results

[Elaine Koogler]

We are planning to be at Crusades ourselves...we'll be camping with Dun
Carraig...so may be in a cabin.  See you there?

Kiri

"Dunbar, Debra" wrote:

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> OK, OK!
> When I wrote "I find it hard to believe that cooking competitions aren't
> period", I was simply musing out loud;  expressing surprise at the idea that
> rivalries would NOT have resulted in some "contest" like - "I'll have my
> cook whip up something with a brace of quail Tuesday, then send a brace of
> quail over to your kitchen for Wednesday, and we and a few friends will eat
> both suppers and see whose cook is really the better."  Do I think two cooks
> got together in a huge "kitchen stadium" with an audience and a panel of
> judges for a cookoff?  No.  But these are just my THOUGHTS based on my
> eclectic background and readings.  I would have referred to documentation if
> I had been citing something.  In the future I will try very hard to preface
> all these opinions by "IMO" so there is no further confusion.
>
> This is really 2 different discussions - an academic one on the history of
> cooking rivalries and whether they would have (or did) manifested some type
> of "contest", and an administrative one on how the SCA can better use
> cooking "contests" to excite and interest members to explore historical
> cooking in the context of the SCA.  Lots of things the SCA does aren't
> "period", but are vehicles to allow and encourage people to pursue "period"
> activities.
>
> BTW- I'm primarily a craftsperson. The kitchen was the most important room
> during my childhood, and it still is!  Food has lots of social and cultural
> implications for me and one of my great joys in life is preparing a
> wonderful meal for friends and family to enjoy.  I don't hate research, but
> it's not one of my top 100 things to do. I'm hoping that activities like
> cooking contests, this thread, etc. will inspire me to actually spend some
> time documenting a few recipes here and there.
>
> Wrynne
> Oh, I'm cooking Saturday night dinner at Kingdom Crusades for a group of
> friends - if anyone wants to stop by and visit I'll let them be my taster!
> I promise I won't poison anyone!  I get lonely stiring the pot by myself
> will everyone is off fighting the war.
>
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