[SCA-Cooks] Medieval cooking for non-cooks

[chirhart_1]

Know it was misha rolling three scadiens up the hill cause the were from a
different mind set........
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura C. Minnick" <lcm at efn.org>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [SCA-Cooks] Medieval cooking for non-cooks


>
>
> Peter Ryan wrote:
> >
> > The "guy" in Dante's Inferno was the titan, Tantalus, from whence the
term
> > "tantalising" is derived.
>
> Whoop! Whoop! Nope- that wasn't Tantalus- Tantalus was the one with the
> perpetual thirst and the cup just out of reach. The one Stefan was
> referring to was Sisyphus, who had to roll the boulder up the hill, only
> to have it roll back down again.
>
> Sez me, survivor of ITAL 341/441, both sections.
>
> > I wonder if fighter training is the best place to try to convert people
to
> > period food? I run a fighter training every week, and though many of the
> > folks there are extremely active in other facets of SCA life (we have a
> > Laurel, and a couple of us Pelican types turn up, plus Krae Glas is a
very
> > A&S oriented Canton), but the sticks in hands, helms on heads thing
seems to
> > nix any discussions of other topics.
>
> I suspect that Stefan was taking things to fight practice because it is
> frequently the only _regular_ meeting that most folks go to. And awful
> lot of folks go to practice and sit around to watch- they won't pick up
> a stick and try but they'll watch (and they aren't all An Tirians,
> either!). And those same folks won't go to an arts night. Or heraldry.
> In fact, quite a few branches combine meetings.
>
> Besides, if you can convert the fighters, you've won a good portion of
> the battle, because a lot of people will do it if they see the Big Boys
> doing it. Peer pressure in a different direction ;-)
>
> 'Lainie
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