[Sca-cooks] Re: FoodTV

[Signora Apollonia Margherita degli Albizzi]

Olwen can do a Marzipan show....

Apollonia, who likes Emeril at first, but now he's just annoying...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincent Cuenca" <bootkiller at hotmail.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:24 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Re: FoodTV


> Ya know, we keep talking about this sort of thing, how wonderful it would
be
> if something like this were to be produced.
>
> So why don't we do it?
>
> (Well, yeah, we're spread out all over the country, we don't have the
money,
> yadda yadda yadda.)
>
> Since when have we let reality keep us from creating cool things?  Look at
> the Rock!
>
> So here's a proposition, strictly as a thought experiment:
>
> What would you want to see in a series on period cooking?  One show on
> debunking myths, another on regional cooking variances, one on how to plan
> menus and lay tables?
>
> Would this be done with an eye towards the SCA feast planner, or to the
home
> cook?  Both?
>
> Do we stick to extant documentable recipes, or do we allow conjectural
work
> (eg Anglo-Saxon cooking)?
>
> Best of all, how many ways can we abuse Emeril Lagasse and Bobby Flay? :-)
>
> Getting excited now,
>
>
> Vicente