[Sca-cooks] dealing with mundane cooks

[Micheal]

Greetings
      You simply have to ask yourself will it be worth the effort to teach 
him the difference between doing food, and recreating period food.  Sit him 
down and talk to him find out what his goals are, if he does`t want to learn 
move on. Don`t work with him refuse his help and keep him out. He will 
either move on himself or ask why sooner or later.
    Cealian Of Moray ( DA)
 30 years mundane cooking  to unlearn
     ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise" <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 5:56 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] dealing with mundane cooks


> Ladies & Gents,
>
> I'm looking for some suggestions. I have found that I'm having a hard
> time communicating well with cooks with extensive mundane cooking
> experience. This is a bit of a problem seeing as I'm dating one. There's
> also someone who just popped up locally who a number of people who do
> medieval/renaissance cooking are having a bit of difficulty with. We'll
> call him Bobby of the East.
>
> Bobby of the East has a large quantity of ideas about how things should
> be done. Some of them are good (for instance, thinking about what you
> could use a period sauce on). Some of them (telling someone who was
> getting a roast pig done by their local butcher as part of their feast,
> that that was no better than sending out for Chinese...) are, well,
> difficult to cope with. There is definitely a protective armor of
> professional kitchen experience being used here, often as armored panels
> for a bulldozer.
>
> Sooner or later, I'm going to butt heads with this guy, because I'm also
> an opinionated bigmouth. Aside from giving free reign to the desire to
> beat him bloody with a cast-iron fry pan and/or a copy of the Viander,
> any suggestions?
>
> -- 
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
> "Information wants to be a Socialist... not a Communist or a
> Republican." - Karen Schneider
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