SC - An invitation to the cooks of Atenveldt

[Pat]

Lent just being the current example and academic type problem I have taken
upon myself.

The same group of people I am dealing with trying to convince are already
used to dealing with food restrictions be it A. the food allergies that tend
to be existant when you get enough people together to camp with a common
kitchen or B. the member of the war group who is mundanely Jewish.  The boys
are accommodating when it comes to making sure there are enough pork-less
dishes on the menu, but the leap to "In period my persona would be forbidden
to eat this..." is not necessarily a sacrifice they are currently willing to
give.

I think that the deciphering of the rules and exceptions will be a great
puzzle (being lucky in modern life and not personally having food rules to
follow just the guidelines my stomach gives me when it is annoyed with me).
Unlike some of us, I have to start completely from scratch as I was not
raised in a religion that followed any sort of food restrictions, and so
have no foundation of reference on which to build.

And maybe a few years in the future I will have a success story for you
regarding a spring feast and my group of crusading (carnivorous) monks.

- -Cassea

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
[mailto:owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Stefan li Rous
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 7:45 PM
To: SCA-Cooks maillist
Subject: Re: SC - list newbie/Seasonal food.


Alban declared:
> 6. Many of us aren't Christian, and couldn't care less whether
> it's Lenten or not. . .

Yes, in mundane life this is true. However, if you are serious about
understanding how folks in the period we study lived and thought, I
think you must take such things into account. While religious restrictions
affected folks in different regions and in different social levels
differently, they did affect most folks in this time period to some
extent.

I doubt I would like living under the restrictions to the level they
did, and many were not happy about it then, but I think such things could
be studied and used at SCA events to help give us an idea of what it
was like to live in those times.

Such restrictions could, in fact, be a good outlet for creativity. How
would you work around those restrictions to present a delightful dining
experience to the guests of your master when that special dinner just
happened to fall in Lent or another fast day?

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THLord  Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas         stefan at texas.net
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