SC - Great Celebration in Atlantia

[Elaine Koogler]

Your Grace,
No, it's not either of our faults.  It's a custom that has sort of slipped into
Atlantian tradition over the past 6 or 8 years or so.  I can't exactly remember
who held the first one.  I'm sure it was some lady who thought the name sounded
"genteel" and like something a Queen should do.  I don't care for it, but I also
don't care to argue with a Queen, especially when the tradition has been around
for so long.  (Actually, as I think about it, IIRC, it was Duchess Seonid, Duke
Michael of Bedford's current lady-wife, who started the tradition, which
explains a lot!)

Kiri

david friedman wrote:

> >Not to leave out another of our correspondents, Lady Olwen and her
> >Bright Hills Cooks Guild will be preparing the food for the Queen's Tea,
> >to be held on Saturday morning.  That should be quite an event in
> >itself...I've been around for one of their setups, and it is not only
> >delicious food, but beautiful as well.
>
> ...
>
> >Kiri
>
> It isn't, of course, Kiri's fault (nor, probably, Olwen's), but this
> pushes one of my buttons. "Tea" as a drink is either very late period
> or out of period for western Europe. "Tea" as the name of a social
> occasion is more than a century out of period; as best I recall the
> term first appears in the 18th century. It is entirely appropriate
> for regency recreation, and wildly inappropriate for the SCA.
> --
> David/Cariadoc
> http://www.daviddfriedman.com/
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