[Sca-cooks] Moghul Food

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> I was recently told about some controversy in my Kingdom in which a  
> Laurel recognized for her work in Persian studies announced in  
> connection with some local cook's modern Middle Eastern cooking that  
> modern ME cooking is fine for SCA use since Persian cooking has not  
> changed materially for 1000 years, and her correspondents in modern  
> Iran confirm this.

Oh, yes. I heard a similar story about Central European food directly
from the mouth of a Laurel/Pelican who had gotten her maunche in food
related arts and was determined to do a feast in some Balkan-related
culture for our Central European event. She was a laurel, she had
pointed out, and didn't need access to my puny collection of Central
European resources; she could do her own research.

*sigh* It was after she had saddled us with a menu including three-color
(sweet) pepper salad, new world bean pottage and lamb kebabs in January
that she had to back out of cooking the feast the Wednesday before the
event-- funeral in her husband's family. 

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-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
"Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both." 
   -- Alice Stone Blackwell