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

[Olwen the Odd]

Ya know, I have been forwarding this damn invitation to this list every year 
for a few years now, simply so you folks can see what kind of competition we 
do here in Bright Hills to try to spark interest in period style cooking and 
recipes.  This is the first year that I have seen anyone fall off their 
horse in such an overly eager attempt to nit-pick.  To the contrary, we have 
had some folks come from further away just to compete!

Please do NOT pick Master Chirhart out of the line-up for this one!!  He did 
not sit in solitude and  make up the rules, that was done as a matter of 
course several years ago (yes, you can go back and see the same time-line 
mentioned over and over!).

And thank you for the complement to our cooks guild, Phlip, we do not, as a 
re-creation guild simply limit our menus and offerings to the time 
constraints listed in the competition flyer.  That would be like cutting off 
one's nose to spite one's face!

The one thing you might have thought about or asked after was the skill 
levels and available resources to folks who may consider entering this 
competition, not to mention simply asking a question instead of grabbing a 
lance and charging full ahead like some......well, I shall leave this here.

In the future I shall not forward this to this list.  Of course I shall have 
to see everyone else's posts about their competitions that no one ever tears 
apart........

Olwen, more than just miffed....

>
>Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
>
> > Im really sorry that olwen put the silly damed thing on this list .It 
>was
>not ment to be the butt of jokes ,pokes or anyones deep seated hatreds Of
>some one elses fun. Im angry as of now and am asking people to drop this
>thred.please. Chirhart- no longer amused
>
>Well, Chirhart, I wasn't amused when you poohpoohed my concerns. I 
>tolerated
>it, because I happen to care about you a great deal, but I personally found
>it quite upsetting.
>
>The problem is not just one instance of "someone else's fun", it's a
>constant erosion of what we're out here, supposedly doing. In theory,
>anyway, we're an educational organization learning and studying about the
>historical period prior to Dec 1, 1600.
>
>This thing about limiting our period to pre-1650, and no earlier than 650 
>is
>a constant irritation, eroding our attempts at cheerful recreation, at 
>least
>for those of us with an interest in early period. It's rather like
>"Feastocrat",  "Porta-castles", and "Dragons"- cute, but rather silly,
>considering there are perfectly adequate and period terms for each of those
>functions- yet the terms are incredibly prevalent. As I said, a constant
>erosion.
>
>Had you chosen to limit your time period to something like, say, 15th and
>16th century northern Europe, or Medieval Arabic, or something like that,
>I'd have no objection, but the "limitation" you've chosen will appear to 
>the
>uninitiated to be all of SCA time period- and it isn't. It's particularly
>annoying when coming from a group like your Bright Hills Cooking Guild,
>which in general, are providing tremendous leadership in the Cooking Arts 
>in
>your area of the Knowne World.
>
>If you can swear to me that no one will say, "Oh yes, I entered a cooking
>contest sponsored by Bright Hills that covered all of SCA period," I'll
>withdraw my objection to the chosen dates.
>
>But until then, my objection stands.
>
>Lady Philippa Ferraria
>Cook, Chirugeon, Smith, and Hard Head
>
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