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

[Elaine Koogler]

Saint Phlip wrote:
> Jeeze- this sounds like what Adamantius was SUPPOSED to do at the
> Barleycorn feast. Anybody wanna make him a Fred Flintstone sized
> spoon?
>
> On 9/11/06, King's Taste Productions <kingstaste at comcast.net> 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
>>     
>
>   
There's a craftsman who regularly shows up at the Midrealm Cook's 
Symposium...I don't remember his name off of the top of my head, but 
that's where I got the "supersized" wooden spoon I gave to my friend!  
Iasmin, if you're out there...do you remember the guy I'm talking about?

Kiri

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