[Sca-cooks] dealing with mundane cooks

[Nancy Kiel]

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise<mailto:jenne at fiedlerfamily.net> 
  To: Cooks within the SCA<mailto:sca-cooks at ansteorra.org> 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 4:56 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<mailto:jenne at fiedlerfamily.net> 
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