[Sca-cooks] Adamantius' deification

[Stefan li Rous]

Adamantius replied to me with:
> >  > Certainly my own experience is that a lot more people (but not all)
> >>  are doing work in cookery as a matter of course that equals or
> >>  exceeds the best achievements of Laurels for cookery even five years
> >>  ago (jeez, I've been a Laurel for going on five years, and I was on
> >>  this list well before that).
> >
> >Interesting, considering since this list first formed in April 1997,
> >it is not quite five years old. :-)
>
> You've mentioned this before, but I think you may be mistaken about
> the starting date. I recall joining it  on the day Gunthar dropped a
> line about it to the East Kingdom list, and I seem to recall that was
> in March of 96. I could be wrong, though, but I also don't remember
> you from that far back, so either the list is older than you think,
> or perhaps I just don't remember you because I didn't know who you
> were at the time.

I remember Gunthar mentioning this new list he had started having
to do with cooking in the SCA. I think it took me a day or two to
finally get around to signing up. Much of the first week or two
was spent with introductions, although I seem to remember a
conversation on how to cook a large pot of rice/frumenty without
burning it.

I checked some of the introductions I saved at work and they were
early April, 1997. Within a week of joining this list, I decided
that individual messages weren't going to cut it, and switched
to the digest.

The following is the oldest message from this list that I saved
in my SCA-Cooks area here at home.

Hey, Gunthar, since you founded this list, when do you remember or
have records for it being formed?

I thought I'd check the archives and see what the oldest one was.
However, they seem to only cover the period since SCA-Cooks
switched over to the new mail program.
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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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> From: sca-cooks at eden.com (4/10/97)
> To: SCACOOKS
>
> Mail*Link® SMTP               sca-cooks A Belated Introduction...
> Hello there!
>
> I just realized we've all been sitting in a circle, so to speak,
> introducing ourselves, and I've been pretty active on this list without
> supplying any background. My apologies for the rudeness.
>
> I am Gideanus Tacitus Adamantius, living in the Crown Province of
> Østgardr, East Kingdom. My chosen persona is of a 5th-6th century
> Romanized Briton who has seen service with a war duke commonly called
> Arthur. I've been in the Society for almost 15 years, and cooking for
> events for just over 12 of those years. I am a Maunche (E.K. arts award)
> and a founding member of the Fighting Cooks of Østgardr. I live in a
> large Province, and the oldest group in the East, and we have seen
> numerous groups dissolve as a result of infighting between separate arts
> and fighting communities. In an attempt to prevent this, both locally,
> and as an example to other groups, we formed the Fighting Cooks. It also
> keeps us from taking ourselves too seriously, either on the field or in
> the kitchen.
>
> I've cooked for more local events than I can calculate, and have run
> three or four very large kitchens at kingdom level events, and have
> participated in some form in countless others.
>
> My special areas of interest are food preservation and cheesemaking, and
> I am apparently known as an exceptional troubleshooter on-site. I have
> been a professional cook in three- and four-star restaurants in New York
> for a number of years, but have since decided to pursue something more
> theoretical, and less stressful and dangerous. I have, however, had the
> quintessentially satisfying experience of showing David Bouley (arguably
> one of the finest chefs on the planet) how to make stiffly beaten egg
> whites by pouring them through a strainer, following the instructions in
> The Forme of Cury.
>
> But enough about me...what do YOU think of me...?
>
> Adamantius