[Sca-cooks] Feastocrate vs. Head Cook

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

> Noble Cousins!
>
> Greetings from Solveig! Why not simply use chef? Chef appears to be
> etymologically related to chief and capt = head. The Chef is the leader
> of cooks. I am currious as to when chef actually came into use. I
> agree that it may be quite recent and is only really descriptive in
> the context of restaurant culture which is itself quite recent.
>
> Autocrat (as opposed to its offspring) is a real word and is descriptive
> of the function. In medieval times, this job might be performed by a
> head butler of some sort.

Indeed. At a Twelfth Night a number of years ago (but still in the single
digits), the co-Autocrats pointed out that since this was a Russian-themed
event, they were not, in fact, Event Stewards, but Autocrats.

Margaret