[Sca-cooks] Scullery duty

[Carol Eskesen Smith]

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I'm confused.  Why aren't you also cooking the feast, if you've done the research?  That's the OTHER half of the fun!  I learned a long time ago that some of the best events are held in kitchens.
Regards,
Brekke

----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 12:01 AM
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Scullery duty

Also sprach johnna holloway:
>Speaking from experience, the person behind the scenes who does the
>research and supplies the recipes and adaptations and working versions
>and amounts for purchasing, all the books, all the articles, and answers
>all the questions as they arise is never credited as a cook on a feast.

Well, that sucks the Big Balut, to put it delicately. In the East
we've seen the occasional A&S award given for research, sometimes
appropriate, sometimes, IMO, not. But it does help in cases such as
you describe.

>In fact cooks who want awards

Cooks who want awards? What mean this words? Is these the Englishes
that we am speakings?

>  never ever mention that someone else did
>the leg work and supplied the research. What really bothers is when they
>can't even be bothered to return the books when the feast is over? It's
>always amusing to see one's research and information turn up printed as
>a head cook's thoughts and musings in a feast booklet.

I imagine this is a sore spot for a librarian. It's bad enough that
entire generations think that by going to the library, they have
fulfilled their research obligations (for school and such), and that
it is the librarian's job to fill their head with all the pertinent
information they need, and absolutely nothing else. Now, I do see a
wave of SCAdians (and others) who imagine that because they know
something (IOW, have been told it), they have done the research, and
that they are not only repositories of information, but also
ground-breaking researchers.

Adamantius, in need of a short drink and a long nap, or maybe the
other way around
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"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes
deserves to be called a scholar."
-DONALD FOSTER
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