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

[Terry Decker]

Leaving off names to protect the guilty, there was a mid-winter feast where 
the chicken was raw, the lentils were burned, and about half the attendees 
got food poisoning.  To add insult to injury, the cooks were proud of their 
"period" meal.  The crown tourney feast where the head cook had a breakdown, 
the guy doing the roasts was trying to cook 5 pound chunks offrozen beef on 
charcoal in sub-freezing weather, and whoever planned it packed the hall so 
that only half of the tables could be reached and a number of people ended 
up unfed.  The one with the cardboard beef and the mushy green beans.  A 
mid-summer feast where the attendees got to play intestinal Russian roulette 
(apparently from bacterial contamination in some of the cold meat pies). 
Three or four feasts where the "period food" was from modern ethnic recipes 
and the cooks had problems scaling up the recipes.

Bear


> So, what are some examples of 'bad cooking' folks have encountered at SCA 
> feasts?
>
> Duriel