[Sca-cooks] Adamantius's party

[Olwen the Odd]

Me Too!!  Well written, as usual, tale Master A!~

>Well, I was going to say.... "oh dear! Poor you in having to endure a
>tedious party. (good shot about the SCA and conversations! Vivats your lady
>wife!  hehe) ...
>But by the time I got down to the end of your post, I was laughing too 
>hard.
>
>Phillipa
>----- Original Message -----
>
> > :::::major snippage:::
>
> > I think the main reason I was a little uncomfortable, though, was
> > that there were just too many people, and nobody could really carry
> > on much of a conversation for any period of time, there was a  lot of
> > milling around. My ever-tactful spouse said it reminded her of some
> > SCA events she remembered ;-). As I type, I'm sitting with some
> > thinly-sliced sopressata and mozzarella with herbs, olives and a few
> > toasted macadamia nuts.
> >
> > Well, there was one interesting incident that kind of stood out. I
> > was sitting and talking to someone or other, and my lady wife was
> > talking to someone else, and I heard, with that cook's radar, the
> > words "medieval recipes" emerge from my wife's mouth. I turned and
> > looked, to discover that my wife, and the lady to whom she was
> > talking, were saying something about my interest in medieval recipes.
> > Not knowing what else to say, I nodded, looking authoritative, and
> > said, "Yes, medieval recipes!"
> >
> > The other lady was a woman named Lee, apparently, and she said to me,
> > "Well, if you're interested in medieval recipes, you're probably
> > familiar with the work of my cousin, who wrote a rather well-known
> > book on the subject."
> >
> > "Please, God," I'm praying silently, "let it be Karen Hess." Chilling
> > premonition going up and down my spine, I said, "Are you by any
> > chance the cousin of Madeline Pellner Cosman? 'Fabulous Feasts'?"
> >
> > "Yes," she said, "that's right! Have you seen her book? Yes? What did
> > you think of it?"
> >
> > "I thought it was terr... well, let me put it another way. At the
> > time the book was written, there were very few alternatives for those
> > interested in adapted, secondary sources. Maybe two or three others
> > were commonly available, and she wasn't writing for an audience of
> > historical re-creators or Living History types anyway, but the
> > unfortunate reality is that while she deserves respect as a
> > trailblazer, there are now a _LOT_ more books on this subject than
> > there used to be, and for anyone seriously interested in eating
> > medieval food as it was in the Middle Ages, in the way it was eaten
> > in the Middle Ages, there are a lot of options available, and very
> > nearly every last one of them is better than "Fabulous Feasts". I can
> > think of one book I would recommend _after_ "Fabulous Feasts". But,
> > as I say, when it was written there weren't a lot of options
> > available for those who didn't want to go to the manuscripts
> > themselves, so that's something, anyway."
> >
> > "Dear, it's so sweet of you to defend her that way, but you needn't
> > on my account. Nobody in the family likes her anyway... she _made_
> > her own mother buy copies of her book..."
> >
> > So we spent a lovely half-hour swapping Madeline Pellner Cosman
> > stories, ending with my falsetto impersonation of her speaking of
> > medieval people eating with their hands... "The food is conveyed to
> > the mouth not with forks, but with those multipurpose extensions to
> > the carpal bones of the hand; I refer of course to thah
> > _fin-gaaaaaahs_." I said she sounded like a cross between Margaret
> > Dumont in a Marx Brothers movie and Natalie Schaeffer as Mrs.
> > Thurston Howell.
> >
> > "Yes," says the cousin, "we all love her accent, too. How she got it
> > in a Jewish home in Brooklyn is one of life's great mysteries."
> >
> > Adamantius
> >
>
>
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