[Sca-cooks] News from Outlands re Caerthen 12th Night

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

>>whick brings us to the old conundrum... feasting... art or service?
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>Actually, in our kingdom, the last time we had the argument, it was
>decided that cooking from period recipes well was an art, and cooking well
>for lots of people without using period recipes was service. :)
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I agree.  You can excel in the art of period cooking without ever doing 
a feast.  You can translate recipes from other languages, research 
ingredients and service methods, teach classes, make smaller meals, all 
kinds of things other than feast making.  At that level, it's equal to 
the practice of any other art in the society.  Alternately, you can work 
your tuchus off slopping the masses with food that is not period.  That 
is no less period or less difficult than autocratting, which is really a 
tremendously mundane function, and therefore no less worthy of 
recognition as service.  But it definately doesn't qualify as art in our 
historical sense.  The third option is to apply your art to the slopping 
the masses - practice both art and service together. 

-Magdalena

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Tara Sersen Boroson

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself. - Galileo Galilei