[Sca-cooks] Out of the food topic altogether rant Authenticity police

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> I have several Authenticity police members in my Barony who avoid me out of 
> survival needs. I have seen good cooks quit trying or cooking or the 
> society altogether because of such commentary.

And I've seen good cooks quit cooking or trying because people have told 
them 'period food sucks' or 'we don't want period food, we want edible 
food'. 

When people give you a hard time, it's always problematic.
But it's important for us to understand that sometimes it's hard to talk 
about authenticity and documentability without disturbing someone's 
equilibrium.

> > I'm doubting that it's "period for the SCA",  Or the ever thoughtful 
> >"Thats not period" applied to arts Cooking is most objectively an art.
>  The most comical situation I have ever been involved in with such a person 
> was. Standing before me questioning  while wearing polyester garb about the 
> authenticity of the dish they had just enjoyed vehemently.

I camp in a nylon tent.  Once in a while the Anti-Authenticity Security
Squad have claimed that this means I can't be concerned about the
documentabilty of food or of herbal preparations. On one notable
occasion, one remark (a response that no, a mahogany table was NOT
cheaper, lighter OR more period than a plastic one) got me in trouble
with both sides-- some people called me Anti-Authenticity and others 
called me Authenticity Police for pointing out that mahogany is a South 
American wood.

> While I was 
> holding the book it came out of in my hands. Some of you might even know 
> the book called the Complete Dagger Licking Good. Written by one of our own 
> people. Which I must say has a recipe for Herbed Lemon- garlic Chicken on 
> page 87. . 

Hm.. Do you happen to remember where the original recipe comes from? 
See, here I am doing it again, but I don't think I'm likely to get the 
book, so I may be able to find the original recipe and make a version of 
it for 
myself!

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-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
"Information wants to be a Socialist... not a Communist or a 
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