[Sca-cooks] "Trial By Fire" Ad (cooking competition!)

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

--- Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:
>  Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
>  > >The Rules:
>  > >1) The recipe must either be:
>  > >a) published between 650 and 1650 AD. (For the empirically inclined
>  > >Apicius will be "grandfathered in").
>
>  But Anthimus is thrown out? What is this "between 650 and 1650 AD" stuff?
>  There's no starting date for SCA, and I get almighty irritated when people
>  try to invent one.
>
>  I protest!!!!!

Enh, what do i care... i'm going to help cook an entire feast out of 
Anthimus later this year - i'm not head cook, i'm just helping...

I agree that their rules are rather arbitrary (Apicius but no 
Anthimus?), but, as someone else said, it's their competition...

Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita
-- 
"The truth must be taken wherever it is to be found,
whether it be in the past or among strange peoples."
	-- al-Kindi, Baghdad (801-873)