[Sca-cooks] Cooking as a Hobby, was: Rant: And speaking of cooking equipment...

[Vitaliano Vincenzi]

While your examples below are great, they don't describe hobbies. If an 
artist is creating art with the intent to sell, that is NOT a hobby, nor 
is the home baker attempting to bake bread to sell at the local bake 
shop or coffee house. But that's not a topic for this list, so I will 
move into something more on topic.

As far as my cooking period food either at home of during an SCA event 
or meeting, that is and always will be a hobby for me, for if it ever 
becomes work I will stop doing it - I work enough hours in the day.

Yes, I am cooking a feast for 100 people later this year at our shire's 
Autumn Rose event, but for me, even that is considered my hobby. I am 
having a lot of fun researching and preparing for this event, and all of 
it for the shear enjoyment of it.

Ok, enough, I have more important things to deal with now, like how to 
make souvlaki for 100 people with nothing but an open fire pit and a few 
roasters... :)

TheBard3 wrote:

> Another thing to think of when someone calls cooking your hobby.  Think of
> some of the artists who can't make a living at selling art yet, still
> produce world class art.  Or some of the new breed of home bakers that build
> their own brick ovens and produce killer bread but, live in areas where no
> one buys enough "real bread" to even have a demand for it.  If you try to
> see it from that angle maybe having cooking for a hobby isn't such a bad
> thing.

-- 
Lord Vitaliano Vincenzi
aka Shane Lambert
http://www.periodfood.blogspot.com
Shire of Rokeclif: http://www.rokeclif.org
Kingdom of Northshield: http://www.northshield.org