[Sca-cooks] idiots

[Martin G. Diehl]

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:

[snip]

> Why are non-cooks so sure they know it all about what's 
> needed? and why are people in the darn SCA so territorial 
> about lending and borrowing stuff between groups.

I don't know the answer.  

OTOH, I have seen the same question.  

At Metalsmith Symposium I, October 2002, Saturday afternoon 
while doing prep for the feast, I saw someone taking not 
one, but two 80 quart stock pots (the kind that would make 
a cannibal jealous) out to her car.  

As head cook, I was more than a little curious about this.  
I found out that she had been asked to bring them for the 
use of the dayboard cook -- since nothing had been said 
about the evening feast she was going to take them away!  
-- without even asking if I could use them -- didn't 
understand why I was ... 'surprised' --- even when I asked, 
she wasn't going to leave them for me to use.  

Unbidden, Olaf appeared and assured her that it would be OK.  

I realize now that event Autocrats must be possessed of 
detachable eyes and/or ears that allow them to oversee 
the entire event at all times.  

Vincenzo

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Martin G. Diehl

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