[Sca-cooks] Use of the term "remove"

[johnna holloway]

It's a bit tricky but the way to search it to pull up
the now famous article --- is use the terms

remove course sca

and google it.

And up pops the article by Countess Alys Katharine of this list.

Of Course, It's 'Course'
... The introduction of "remove" to mean "course" in SCA jargon may be lost in the
mists of our history but it is fairly well-documented in the real world. ...
dialup.pcisys.net/~mem/course.html - 10k - May 11, 2003 - Cached - Similar pages

Johnnae llyn Lewis    Johnna Holloway

(it's also found in other places, but it happens here first.)


Darren Gasser wrote:

>
> Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but I searched the Usual Sources and couldn't find the answer.
>
> Recently, someone on the list mentioned that the term "remove" wasn't correct in period for describing a set of dishes served at the same time.  Could someone please point me to some further explanation of how multi-dish courses were described in period and how and when the term "remove" evolved?
> Thanks much.-Lorenz