[Sca-cooks] Adding to Siege Contests

[ekoogler1 at comcast.net]

So when are your organizing this event...and where???  Inquiring minds want to know!

Kiri


> When people participate in siege or iron chef contests and come back to the list 
> and talk about it, some cook, organizer, or judge participants do a great job of 
> describing the event.  Their descriptions are so vivid that we can smell the 
> smoke, and the aroma of the dishes has us salivating.
> 
> I've enjoyed these so much that I think it would be wonderful to expand coverage 
> of some siege or iron chef contests by adding an oral 
> historian/reporter/photographer(or videographer) to the team.  I envision this 
> person being able to ask (during and after the cooking in a way that didn't slow 
> down the cooks) all those things we'd like to be able to hit a pause button and 
> ask the iron chefs on TV.  Or what we could create if we could have an 
> IronChef-SecretLIfeOf-Unwrapped SCA show :-).
> 
> My idea of dream coverage would look something like:
> 
> I) A)Info on how and why Sponsors chose the foods they did.
> B) Detailed descriptions and quantities of foods for each team such as
> 1) Whole 5-6 pound chicken with neck, heart, liver, gizzard
> 2) 6 large white chicken eggs, 3 large brown chicken eggs, 3 green or blue 
> arucana eggs
> 3) 5 pounds of white whole wheat flour from King Arthur
> 4) 4 red plums weighing approximately 18 ounces total
> 5) 2 ounces fresh sage
> 6) 1 pound mixed size (1-3 oz) yellow sweet onions
> C) Rules of contest
> Sponsors would also decide if the reporter could verbally assist their team 
> during the actually cooking phase of the contest or just ask questions and 
> document.  I'd vote for allowing verbal assists as then you wouldn't have to 
> decide if the reporter asking why they cooked X instead of Z, was a hint to 
> consider cooking Z or just a request for info.
> D) Setup and conditions of the contest
> E) Weather conditions during contest
> 
> II) Team Info
> A) 1-2 paragraph biography of each participant
> B) Team cooking apparatus, cookwear, servewear, and written resources used in 
> contest
> C) How team preprepped
> D) Additional foods brought/used by team
> E) How/why team chose the dishes they did.  Why they chose one thing over 
> another if they were deciding between a couple of things.
> F) What they made and what period recipe it was based or loosely based on
> G) How they think it turned out--Perfectly roasted, needed more onions, carrots 
> worked well instead of the turnips the recipe called for...    Descriptions of 
> what dishes tasted like.
> H) Pictures of team, preparation, cooking, finished dishes, plating.  If anyone 
> on the team needs to avoid being indentifyable in posted pictures, making sure 
> to have some pictures of just their hands in a prep stage, etc.
> J) Theme that participants centered the dishes around if any
> K) How team works together--one person maintains fires and coals, two people 
> create menu, two people chop all the vegetables, each pair of team members does 
> a dish from start to finish, one person does all the ongoing dishwashing, etc.
> 
> III)Judging Info
> A) 1-2 paragraph biography of each participant
> B) Thoughts Sponsors and Judges had about what the teams might do with the 
> food--thought everyone would use German or Italian recipes with this set of 
> foods
> C) What Judges thought of each team's strategy and balance of dishes
> D) What Judges thought of taste and presentation.  Descriptions of how the dish 
> looked and tasted.
> E) Strategies Judges suggest that could have helped the particpants
> F) What additional tasters or observers thought of the food and presentation
> 
> IV) Post coverage to a website and links to SCA-Cooks and regional cooking 
> lists.  Send edited video to Iron Chef show when they are collecting examples of 
> how other people do Iron Chef cookoffs if desired.
> 
> As you can probably guess, what I'd really like is the SCA cook's version of a 
> Vulcan mind meld :-).  So this list of dream  siege contest coverage is an idea 
> of the next best thing.
> 
> Sharon
> gordonse at one.net
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