[Sca-cooks] Period Foods: How to Fake It!

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

Poorly worded questions, I think. What I would have asked is something
along the lines of "What sorts of things from the local grocery store
have people served that wouldn't necessarily look out of place in period?"

I think the BBQ chicken reference traumatized us. :-)

Margaret, who will admit to having served the prince a stick of butter
with honey poured over it, but only because he asked...

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Olwen the Odd wrote:

> Well, Cera, do you feel sufficiently brow-beaten yet?  Cripes, all the heros
> jumped down your neck!  Anyone else need to take a shot at her???!  All she
> did was ask a question....
> Olwen
>
> >
> >On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Cera Chonaill wrote:
> >
> > > The question isn't about proclaiming an item to be period when it's not
> >but
> > > fooling the eye and taste to give a lunch or off board table the
> >feel/look
> > > of period. When people as you tell them what it is, that way they can
> >see
> > > that it doesn't take that much effort or time to trying to make a table
> > > feel/look more period.
> > >
> > > Cera