[Sca-cooks] New World/Old World challenge

Stefan li Rous StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Fri Jun 9 18:20:04 PDT 2006


Devra asked:
  <<< I know that someone on this list did the New  World/Old World
challenge on
food at a demo or event. Rather than risk being  lost in the
uncharted wilds of the Floreiligium, >>>

Ouch!

But yes, that one is bit difficult to answer with the on-site search  
engine without getting a lot of other stuff. I am, as always,  
interested in hearing suggestions on solving this making the  
Florilegium easier to use in other ways.

<<< does anyone remember the  citation?
      Devra (yes, very lazy) >>>

There are several messages on this in this file and many of them give  
their list of items that various groups have used for this activity.  
I have done this at several demos with good effects. Very few folks,  
including the other SCA people at the demo, got everything correct.

The earliest message I have on this appears to have been written by  
Anne-Marie and is pasted below. So right now, I think she gets credit  
for this excellent demo activity or at least for making it known to  
this list and the Known World.

demos-msg        (102K) 10/23/01    SCA demos for education and  
recruitment.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/SCA-EVENT-PLANNING/demos-msg.html

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas           
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****

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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:18:59 -0700
From: Anne-Marie Rousseau <acrouss at gte.net>
Subject: Re: SC - Re:period food/demo's

 >> But at public demos, we play our New World Old World food
 >> game...we have a large pile of recognisable foodstuffs....a
 >> can of corn. A can of cocoa. A bag of rice. A vanilla bottle.
 >> Peanut butter. Canned greenbeans. a Head of garlic. We ask
 >> them to divide the foods into two piles...what would Columbus
 >> have known about before his little trip and what after. Its fun,
 >> it gets people talking about history and food and how much our
 >> diet has changed, etc. If they play and "win" they get a prize. A
 >> small pamphlet of medieval recipes, for example. we give 'em
 >> out to the "losers" too....:)
 >
 >What a GREAT idea!  Do you mind if I lift it?  I like the way it makes
 >people interact with the concept.  :)
 >
 >(And I think it might be safer than serving food to the public.)
 >
 >- Clotild

fine with me to borrow the idea :). be sure all your "experts" agree on
stuff, and its useful to have a reference book or two handy to look  
things
up to disuade the people who insist that the irish ate potatoes in the
middle ages :)

good luck!
- --AM
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