Challenging beliefs RE: [Sca-cooks] cordials

[Sue Clemenger]

Now, Papa...you've been king.  You should remember that that sort of
Political Tongue is a general peer quality, even if not quite at the level
of having the gift of Parsle Tongue (sp?).
Laurels also don't know everything about everything, despite our secret
decoder rings.  I hang out on this list because you guys let me, bless you
all, but I am *SO* NOT a Food Laurel.  I got recognized for embroidery.  I
think.  I make food mistakes all the time, but hopefully, not the same ones!
At any rate, we actually run into this sort of thing fairly often--most of
the plaintive voices I hear from my fellows usually comes from non-textile
Laurels who are assumed to be clothing experts, though. ;o)  I'd only really
be worried about the laurel mentioned if he/she had been recognized for
brewing/liqueurs/etc.  It may be an IKA thing (or a matter of personal
approachability) but I, for one, here in Artemisia, sure wouldn't have any
problem with someone asking me for sources, or to explain my reasoning on a
certain topic.  How the heck else am I going to learn, peerage or not?
--Maire, Auld Aten laurel, now popping back into the back kitchen at the
Rock to continue making blintzes for the 25th (stuffed with cheese and lox
and chives...mmmmm)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Sasso" <grizly at mindspring.com>
To: "'Cooks within the SCA'" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:08 PM
Subject: Challenging beliefs RE: [Sca-cooks] cordials


> > -----Original Message-----
> > I was later informed that I should have basically said,
> > "That's interesting, do you have any documentation I
> > haven't found? I'd love to know about that."
> >
> > Well, I guess that's why I'll never be a Laurel.  :-D
> > I need to work on that diplomatic statement thing.
> >
> > Gunthar
>
>
> I have found that people (including myself) are often passionately
attached
> to their beliefs about their favorite topics.  I find challenging their
> beliefs is often like discussing with some Christian conservatives the
> similarity of the Last Supper to ritual cannibalism in other cultures.
You
> get reactions from looks of disbelief to physical violence upon your
person.
>
> Asking them for their source or a little detail about what time and place
> they are talking about can pull the curtain back a little and challenge
> without confrontation.  Sure, you don't HAVE to avoid confronting since
> you're a king-level-type fighter, but it can appear more graceful when you
> want to.  Then there is the other end of the spectrum that leads to the
> label of "period-police" or "garb-nazi".
>
> Heck! Have fun and pull back the darkness . . . you seem to have a knack
for
> humanness when you're out there asking the good questions.