[Sca-cooks] The 50th annual SCA-Cooks Thanksgiving list!

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Nov 20, 2006, at 5:02 PM, Saint Phlip wrote:

> Well, I've been entertaining myself with convincing the guys on
> TheForge, a mundane (sorta) smithing List that cooking is just a
> variety of smithing. I mean, you heat up steel, and make something
> good, right? No big difference ;-)

One of the great moments in my time in the SCA was when I was  
patiently trying to teach four or five fighters how to make puff  
pastry (height and upper body strength being useful things behind a  
rolling pin), and they just weren't getting it at all, until I said  
something about lamination, and one of them yelled out, "Holy sh**!  
We're making Damascus steel!!! I _knew_ this was the coolest!"

Hey, somewhere I have a copy of a book about cooking on your car  
engine. I bet those recipes could be adapted pretty easily...

Adamantius




"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
     -- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry  
Holt, 07/29/04