[Sca-cooks] Cook's Prayer, was RE: 9/11 SCA cooks

[Elaine Koogler]

King's Taste Productions wrote:
> This isn't exactly a prayer, more like words to live by:
>
> "The Cook orders, regulates and is obeyed in his Kitchen; he should have
> a chair between the buffet and the fireplace to sit on and rest if
> necessary; the chair should be so placed that he can see and survey
> everything that is being done in the Kitchen; he should have in his hand
> a large wooden spoon which has a double function:  one, to test pottages
> and brouets, and the other, to chase the children out of the Kitchen to
> make them work, striking them if necessary."
>
>
>
> Memoires 
> Olivier de la Marche,
> Maitre d'Hotel, Capitaine des Gardes to
> Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 
> mid-Fifteenth Century
>
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This is one of my favorite passages...when a good friend was Laureled 
for cooking, I read this as my part of his ceremony...and attached a 
copy of it to a very large wooden spoon, which I presented to him, again 
as part of his ceremony.

Kiri

-- 
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm. 
As you get older, remember you have another hand: the first is to help 
yourself, the second is to help others 

                        -- Audrey Hepburn