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

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Terry Decker:
>  >> whick brings us to the old conundrum... feasting... art or service?
>>
>>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. :)
>>
>>-- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
>
>So, what's cooking well for lots of people from period recipes?
>
>Bear

Since that is [theoretically] a specialty of mine (or so I'm told), 
I'll throw my two cents in. My own experience in the East has been 
that service to the Arts and Sciences (which is what many Easterners 
would call what you describe) seems to fall more under the aegis of 
an art rather than a service. In the (some would say unfortunate) 
nuts-and-bolts criteria of awards, it seems as if service awards are 
given in cases where there's no discernible artistic component. If 
there's an artistic component, there's usually an attempt to justify 
an A&S award (whose terms include service to the A&S, so frequently 
the A&S award is thought to cover service in many cases). A 
period-type artistic component is more likely to be considered an art 
than a service.

Jadwiga... I recall you being named a member of the Orders of the 
Manche and the Silver Crescent on the same day, or at least very 
close together. Which came first?

Adamantius