[Sca-cooks] Arms, and food applications

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

> It would also be an appropriate use of armoury in food to colour the
> food with the livery colours of that person or branch you wish to
> honour. The one example I thought of was serving the King of the West a
> roast of venison upon a bed of two frumente's, one coloured with saffron
> and the other with green herbs. While I might pattern the frumente per
> pale, quarterly, chequey, barry, etc, I might refrain from arranging the
> frumente (ala sand painting) in the arms of the West. Unless you want to
> suggest serving a roast of meat upon the King of the West himself, since
> arms and their owner are pretty much one and the same. You could,
> perhaps, colour pastry and make a pie coffin lid with the arms of the
> honoree, especially if you presented the pie and then (somewhat
> ceremoniously) removed the lid to serve the contents.
>
> --
> Edouard, Sire de Bruyerecourt
> bruyere at jeffnet.org

So how does it work if it's the arms of a group that isn't a Barony, and
thus doesn't have an immediate owner, per se? Or the arms of an office
(like, for instance, herald, or moas)? Does that carry the same
implication, that you're serving a roast on the kingdom MoAS, or the
seneschal of Shire Whatever?

(Finally, something food-related I can talk to my husband the herald
about!)

Margaret, heraldic widow