[Sca-cooks] Authenticity Police: since we're castigatingextremists anyway...

Elizabeth A Heckert spynnere at juno.com
Tue Sep 18 10:22:51 PDT 2001


On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 13:52:42 -0400 Elaine Koogler
>Hmmmm.....that sounds like a great idea!  Maybe we should look into
>something like that for Master cooks to wear?  but then we'd have to
>sort out how to determine who's a master cook and who isn't, wouldn't
we?
>And given some of the discussions I've seen on this list, I wouldn't
want
>to go there with this group!!!


    I will say that Pieter Brughal, who painted the *Wedding Feast*
(obligatory food content) shows peasants with "Monmouth"-style caps with
one side folded up and pinned, and a spoon stuck through  the fold.

   It was a visual reference to a Flemish proverb about foolish folk ...
(sigh!).

     Elizabeth

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