[Sca-cooks] Never ever work with a renn faire...

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

Losyns? One of those polenta-y sort of things from Platina?

Margaret

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Generys ferch Ednuyed wrote:

> OK, so I made the mistake of agreeing to cook a feast for a madrigal dinner
> a almost-local (5 hour drive away, but oh well) rennaisance faire is doing.
> However, they're cheap (this is a fundraiser) and they have this thing about
> "appearing" medieval, rather than being.  One of the dishes in my proposed
> menu was a rice pilaf - not period, but at the very least medievaloid. They
> didn't like that, saying "it's too modern" - ok, it probably was, *but* -
> guess what they proposed instead?  Roasted potatoes - "They *seem*
> medieval".... (yes that's a quote).  SO... does anyone have any ideas of a
> starch type dish that's both something cheap and something that the average
> *modern* person will eat?  <sigh... i hope this is worth what I'm getting
> paid>
>
> Generys
>