[Sca-cooks] Re Medieval cooking for modern cooks (in response to the rant)

[Deb]

Greetings Noble Solveig!

You said,

>Basically, potlucks do not further recreation of the middle ages and
>renaissance either in a culinary sense or in a Aesthetic sense.

Your rant was well received. However, what suggestions do you have for this
situation? Or really any situation where there is a potluck held? There are
bound to be events where there is not a feast kitchen, or whomever hosting
the event has no desire to hold a feast, instead allowing other activities
to take  center stage.
The choices I see are this,
1. People go offsite to eat.  - they may not necessarily return for the rest
of the days activites.
2. People go offsite to get food and return with it. Mickey D's wrappers
aren't period either.
3. People bring food from home and eat it.  Depending on the person the
periodness of the meal is going to vary. Inevitably with this one, groups of
people are bound to get together and share amongst themselves.
4. People starve . Starvation is period isn't it? ;-) But seriously , I
think people are going to choose one of the other three options.

A potluck allows people to remain at the event, enjoy the time together, and
not have to hassle about going offsite. Plus we can use this opportunity to
make it an assigned potluck, giving people recipes, maybe giving their first
medieval cooking experience. Or by giving them lists of semi period modern
items they get a better awareness of what might have been eaten.

Otherwise, you could end up with #3 , which looks like a potluck, but  no
one makes an effort to bring medieval food.

Ranting does no good, if you don't give other creative solutions to the
problem.

Just my .02

Zoe