[Sca-cooks] Virtual Cooking Contest Winners

[kingstaste at mindspring.com]

After careful consideration of the entrants, I have come to the following
conclusions:

Number of Dishes: Ranvaig with 18! What a groaning board that would be!

Completeness of menu: 5-way tie - all entrants provided well-rounded meals

Creativity: Doc - "Mock Eggs".  Interesting use of the salted fish.

Documentation: Huette.  All German sources added cohesion to the menu.

Holiday theme: Tie - Gianetta & Kiri.  I really liked Gianetta's homage to
Warriors (especially the Ramrod Biscuits), and I especially liked the "Sodde
Egges" that Kiri dedicated to Christopher Marlow, appropriate since his
death occurred in a bar, presumably at least some of those involved were
'sodde'.

Christianna's Personal Fancy: Gianetta's cook's assistant drinking the flat
beer!

Most realistic shoebox: Gianetta

So, looking back over the various categories I said I would judge on (+ 1),
I find that Gianetta is our winner!  Ding ding ding ding!  Give that lady a
wooden spoon.

Thanks to all that entered, it was great fun reading through everything and
imagining what it would all taste like (Virtual calories!  Great Zot!  I
think we may have hit on something here!)
One of my alterior motives (aside from entertaining myself) was to see how
the 'shoebox' concept would work.  I think that most everyone made good use
of the space (even if they had to bulge the sides out in some cases :), and
Ranvaig actually managed no less than 4 dishes and 2 sauces out of her
shoebox alone!
I hope you all had fun, and didn't mind sending everyone else off for the
weekend, since the liege lord was able to press you into service and allow
you to shine.
Good work, cooks!
Christianna