[Sca-cooks] Andalusian feast

[Mark Calderwood]

At 17:30 27/01/02 -0800, you wrote:

>>The Feast
>>An Arab poet wrote that pleasure had six forms: food, drink, clothes, sex,
>>scent and sound (the noblest of course being food!). With our guests seated
>>upon cushions in their finest clothes, amid the soft sounds of the oud and
>>splashing fountain, with the scents of citrus and jasmine in the air,
>>sipping wines and syrups and treated to the most luxurious food in the
>>history of Lochac, we are proud to offer at least five forms of earthly
>>pleasure. We bid you welcome to the Andalusian summer banquet!
>
>You mean you weren't going to have incense to scent the guests' garb
>before the banquet?

No, with 90 people it would take far too long. As it was we were having
rose petals in the fountain, citrus fruits strung in garlands around the
walls, Omani frankincense and sage burning in censers, and tiraz curtains
dampened with orange blossom water. I thought that would be enough. :o)

Giles