[Sca-cooks] Cooking contest
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Sun Jul 30 12:24:54 PDT 2006
Hmmm, based on various comments, i assume that many A&S competitions
are open to all manner of stuff... the idea that a piece of
embroidery and a piece of armor are in the same competition with a
piece of pie...
Here in the West, our A&S competitions have specific themes and
usually, although not always, a specific skill. Rarely to we get as
general a topic as one coming up soon: Viking ornamentation (any
technique). Usually there are more focused - (to be completely
random, oh, say, 14th century woodworking).
Also, it seems to me our whole A&S system is much simpler than in
many other kingdoms. We have one A and one S at each of our 6 Crowns
and Investitures. Then we have our "A&S Tourney" which is basically a
camping collegium - the main focus is classes and where there
actually are about 6 A&S competitions (2 arts, 2 sciences, and 2
performing arts). Often there are only one or two entries in any
given competition.
We have a separate set of cooking competitions at every Kingdom event
- our Wooden Spoon - so that food only competes with food. A total
score is 30 points per judge (total possible 90) - 10 of those points
is for *taste* - the other 20 divided among 4 items (i.e., 5 points
each) - documentation, authenticity, scope/scale, and
presentation/appearance.
However, while taste gets the largest number of points, food tends to
fail or win on documentation. Two dishes can score rather similarly -
or one can even be much tastier than another - and the one with the
best docs wins. Previously there had to be a minimum of 3 entries in
order to hold a competition. If there were only one or two, the
judging didn't happen.
When i was Principality A&S minister, i would judge one or two. I
think that if people put the effort into it, they deserved to get
feedback. And we even allow a winner if one gets 66 out of 90
possible points (judges can give extra points, too, if they think an
entry deserves a bit more).
I continue to do this as Silver Spoon, and it is done at the Kingdom
level in both A&S and Wooden Spoon, because our A&S and our cooking
competitions often have so few entries.
We also have cooking competitions in our Principalities - Silver
Spoon for the Mists, Copper Spoon for Cynagua, the Silver Ulu for
Oertha.
I am curious about how A&S things operate in other places. A&S seems
a rather minimal thing here abouts.
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Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita
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