SC - Icky Period Food and attitudes
Becki Tants
rt46 at cornell.edu
Tue Jan 23 09:50:53 PST 2001
> > Ok, I also concede I'm letting my prejudice run away with me. I
>hacked on
> > the period thing, because I'm not a good enough cook yet to be able to
>pull
> > off the stuff I'm not intimately familiar with, ie redacted recipies,
>but I
> > was asked from any number of people if my feast was documentable, and
>it was
> > really starting to get irritating. I apologize to the list members if
>I
> > offended anyone.
Just a comment on this - email is a hard medium to get emotions
though. "Is that documentable" can be said in a scoulding way, a curious
way, or a 'that would be so COOL, PLEASE be documentable' way, but it will
always look the same on the screen. People here are rarely scoulding -
more often they are curious. They have yet to find a way to document
something, and would love to know that you have. There are a couple of
exceptions to that, of course, but in general you're best off assuming that
the tone is a curious one and not a criticism.
(Of course, you can always get around the problem entirely by answering the
question upfront. Put "period - source", "perioid", "not period but yummy"
or something like that with each dish and no one will have to ask.)
Ru
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