[Sca-cooks] Rant: And speaking of cooking equipment...

[Vitaliano Vincenzi]

In a step that will surely get me chastised again, I will share my 
philosophy of what the word "hobby" means to me:

Hobby: noun - an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation 
and not as a main occupation
  - as stated at http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hobby

Ok, so with that definition we can derive that I enjoy cooking as a 
hobby, as I gain nothing but pleasure from it. For ME, cooking is a hobby.

Now, Adamantius is still a chef, as Saint Phlip stated below, so while 
Adamantius is working and earning a living as a chef, it is NOT a hobby. 
However, cooking at home or at an SCA event, or at a friends house, or 
whatever while NOT getting paid for it could be considered a hobby, 
based on the definition above. But wait, there's more...

If Adamantius uses those times, cooking at home, events, etc., as 
practice for cooking as a profession, or to use friends and other 
SCAdians as guinea pigs for new recipes to be used at work, then it 
certainly is not a hobby. It gets difficult to discern if cooking is a 
hobby for this particular person.

However, this whole discussion sprouted from Adamantius getting upset 
because someone said "it is an expensive hobby." Sure, for Adamantius it 
may not be a hobby full time, but to get upset over someone commenting 
that it may be a hobby seems a bit over the top for me. But then again I 
am not a professional chef, and certainly not in the same league as 
Adamantius, so perhaps I just don't get it.

Oh well, off to cook something for lunch. I really do enjoy my hobbies.

Saint Phlip wrote:
> Gunthar, I'm going to have to disagree with you on this. Adamantius is
> still a Chef, just as I am still a Farrier. No, neither of us are
> active right now, for various reasons, but both of us have functioned
> as professionals in our fields of endeavor, which takes both of us
> beyond being hobbyists. I ride horses for fun- I shoe them (or
> nowadays, occasionally consult on shoeing them, since my knees are
> shot) for money. Being inactive currently does not take away the years
> we spent as professionals.

-- 
Lord Vitaliano Vincenzi
aka Shane Lambert
http://www.periodfood.blogspot.com
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