[Sca-cooks] Overdocumentation

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

>  Craftsmen want to make a "thing", then they want to
> show it off. It can be pretty far out of the comfort
> zone to have to also write a paper about the "thing"
> before it counts for display.
> 
>  Many A+S judges may not be familiar with the craft on
> display, so an artisan may feel compelled to
> overdocument as a prophylactic measure.

Yeah, there's nothing like entering a bread and getting the comment 
"What's a leaven?"; or entering an item documented in Ram's Little 
Dodoen and getting a comment, "I'd like to see a period recipe for 
this."

Yes, I did get those comments. Now I judge so it doesn't happen to me.

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-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
"The toad beneath the harrow knows/exactly where each tooth-point goes,
The butterfly upon the road/Preaches contentment to that toad." 
			- Rudyard Kipling