SC - list newbie/Seasonal food.

[Ted Eisenstein]

>It occurred to me to ask this, too. Wouldn't much of the serious
>recreation of period Jewish persona eating habits sort of preclude SCA
>participation, unless you have a quorum? 
No, it wouldn't, unless you assume that all SCA business takes place
over the feast table. (Which it might, now that I think about it. . .<grin>)
Ever been to Pennsic? There are some more-or-less observant Jews there
most years, and they've even gone to the trouble of encircling a part of
the campground with string, so as to make an eruv. . . (Errr, for y'all
unacquainted with the term: it's an enclosure, sort of. Jews are forbidden
from going further than a certain distance from home on the Sabbath -
so, one can create a very large "home" by encircling a large area with
an uninterrupted solid border - like string. . . )


>It's one thing to hold a proper
>seder (for example) with a lot of like-minded people, but is it really
>possible to be fully observant of the dietary laws involved, since it is
>more than a matter of simply not eating the treif foods, isn't it? 
If you're talking Passover, yes, sort of. There's normal kosher, and
then there's the even stricter kosher-for-Passover - no leaven at all,
for example. There's a special matzoh produced, which takes a maximum
of (I think) 18 minutes or so from raw ingredients to final product, just
to avoid even the slimmest of chances that it might rise because it sat
too long after mixing but before baking.
But the SCA is more than just food. At least one hopes so.

Alban