[Sca-cooks] Med/Ren Kitchen Job Titles?

[Terry Decker]

Ahh, the light dawns.

The division of labor in a household is organized more for accounting 
purposes than special abilities.  You could run such a competition with 
sauces, pastries, bread, a main dish, etc., but why not have a competition 
on carving and plating fowl, preparing trenchers for the high table, or 
proper service of the meal, specialties that were widely practiced in 
period.

Bear

> The reason i ask is that the Minister of the Wooden Spoon - our Kingdom 
> level cooking competitions - i'm Silver Spoon, just the Principality level 
> (equal in importance, i guess, to the Barony level in some other 
> kingdoms) - is planning the 6 competitions for next year (3 Crown 
> Tourneys, 3 Coronations) and she liked the idea of having each competition 
> relate to a particular kitchen specialty. So i'm trawling for period 
> specialization - if any.
>
> My thanks to those who have responded thus far. I'll extract what i find 
> useful (i'm not interested in servers and other jobs in the hall for this 
> specific issue, just those preparing foods) and pass it along to Gianetta.
>
> And if anyone finds info in some other languages, i'd all ears... uh, err, 
> this is e-mail... i mean, i'm all eyes...
> -- 
> Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)