[Sca-cooks] Bad Cooking at Feasts - was Re: good taste

[Kerri Martinsen]

my 2 favorite are: 
    1) undercooked chicken (usually whole birds dumped on the table)
    2) parboiled chicken with oranges dumped over it. (usually due to lack of salt)

No particular feast, just general grumpyness.

Vitha

-----Original Message-----
>From: tom.vincent at yahoo.com
>Sent: May 22, 2006 11:46 AM
>To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
>Subject: [Sca-cooks] Bad Cooking at Feasts - was Re:  good taste
>
>That's what I was thinking, too.  Several people said something like 'good documentation cannot compensate for bad cooking'...I can think of overcooked-to-the-point-of-mush veggies or charred-on-the-outside-frozen-on-the-inside steaks as 'bad cooking'...
> 
>A local 'Cajun' (and I use that term loosely) restaurant actually prepares jambalaya with crisp (non-sauteed) celery, which I found jarring, not innovative.
> 
>So, what are some examples of 'bad cooking' folks have encountered at SCA feasts?
> 
>Duriel
> 
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>----- Original Message ----
>From: Arianwen ferch Arthur <caer_mab at yahoo.com>
>To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
>Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 1:53:35 AM
>Subject: [Sca-cooks] good taste
>
>
>Is not good taste in the mouth of the taster?  Just
>becase I do NOT like a particular food, cannot stand
>the taste no matter how prepared, does not mean that
>it does not taste good to someone else.  
>
>(Mom used to stick me with fixing the shrimp and the
>salmon for parties because she knew now of it would
>get "tasted', but on the other hand she couldn't trust
>any of us to shell nuts -- it would take us hours to
>get a cupfull for her cooking.)
>
>Arianwen ferch Arthur
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