[Sca-cooks] Re: Documentation "Fun"

[ysabeau]

Hear! Hear! I'm the same way. I'd rather be tinkering in the 
kitchen than digging through books. I rarely follow a recipe to 
the letter whether it is modern or period. I also rarely cook 
anything the same way twice, be it good or bad. 

Read everything I get my hands on, eventually...and I retain the 
knowledge, just don't ask me 3 months later who said it or where I 
read it. I won't be able to tell you...I just "know" it...for 
example, I remember reading something somewhere as documentation 
for chocolate being period. What I read said something about an 
official document that was found forbidding the nuns in a certain 
convent from making and drinking hot chocolate because it was 
interfering with their duties. No idea where that tidbit of info 
came from, but I remember it. Will I repeat it, probably...would I 
write up a paper on the possibilities of chocolate being 
period...nope, I'm just not that interested. 

I figure it is kind of like medical professionals (or any other 
profession) where some people get into the practical side (seeing 
and treating patients) while others go the research route to try 
and cure diseases. Both types of people are valued and needed. 
Neither is better than the other. Are they mutually exclusive, not 
necessarily...but usually a person is more talented in one area 
than another. 

My two cents,
Ysabeau
________________________
 I'm just not minded to do the 
>Ph.D.-level research and documentation that seems to be the 
standard these 
>days.  I like to cook, not write about cooking. 
>
> -Helena
>
 

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