[Sca-cooks] Greetings

[Stefan li Rous]

Aurore said:
> >From the first emails that I got this morning before posting my greetings, I walk into the wierd conversation about some guy being good looking and a good cook, a rare quality in men that can be loved by women.  I've always enjoyed cooking but never volunteered for feastcrat cause I'm fearful of ruining a large quanity of food and spoiling dinner, my experience has been at most 10 people, so I was told treat it like multiply it by 7-8 times.  Our shire has two fine cooks but they've tired slightly of always been the cooks so I decided to give it a shot.
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Welcome to SCA-Cooks. Yes, sometimes we do get off onto some strange
non-food subjects. Just bear with it, use the delete key and things
will swing back to normal (or at least as normal as this list gets)
in usually a few days.

I'm afraid the Florilegium is not going to be much help to you directly
on period Moroccan foods. There are no files there specifically on
these foods. Mainly because there have been few messages about it, and
without messages or articles, I have nothing to create a file with.
(hint, hint, folks :-) ). I think there are a few guesses at period
Moroccan foods using modern Moroccan foods and working backwards.
Not a very good method, but if that's all you got, that's all you;ve
got.

I don't know how specific you are trying to get to period Morocco.
There are Arab recipes and a number from Andalusian Spain.

One set of files that I would highly recommend for you to look at
are those in the FEASTS section of the Florilegium. It is always nice
to learn from the mistakes and suggestions of other headcooks, to
perhaps avoid having to learn them the hard way yourself.

headcooks-msg    (155K)  5/17/01    Advice for SCA headcooks. Planning feasts.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FEASTS/headcooks-msg.html
ME-feasts-msg     (20K)  5/19/99    Middle Eastern feasts. sitting, serving.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FEASTS/ME-feasts-msg.html

And there are some helpful articles on feast planning, such as:
Fst-Managemnt-art (12K)  7/22/01    "Feast Management" by Lady Eden Blacksmith.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FEASTS/Fst-Managemnt-art.html
Fst-Menus-art     (11K)  4/15/99    "On Rules for Feast Menus"
                                      by Lord Daniel Raoul le Vascon du Navarre.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FEASTS/Fst-Menus-art.html

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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
   Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas          stefan at texas.net
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