[Sca-cooks] I had a dream...

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

One should probably not read the article in TI on Alexis of Piedmont,
along with All the King's Cooks, immediately before bed.

I had a dream that Coronation was being put on in a local group near me.
That they had arranged painted arches, beams, etc. on brown paper and on
muslin to hang over the walls of the site to make it look more period (and
it did). that they had arranged hundreds of pieces of period-style dishes
and silverware. That the lords of the land did ritual handwashing for the
King and Queen as part of the coronation ceremony, and that the highest
cooks in the land repeated that ceremony before, during, and after dinner.
That straw-filled wagons were used to carry plate and delicate dishware
from the kitchen to the serving area. That a multitude of subtleties of
sugarpaste and marchpane were presented, each more amazing than the last.
that I got to help in the kitchen and to wash dishes.

Then I woke up. *sigh*

-- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
"This heavenly city, then, while it sojourns on earth, calls citizens
out of all nations, and gathers together a society of pilgrims of all
languages, not scrupling about diversities in manners, laws, and
institutions whereby earthly peace is secured and maintained, but
recognizing that, however various these are, they all tend to one and
the same end of earthly peace." -- St.  Augustine of Hippo