[Sca-Cooks] Pasties article in the new T.I.

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> > 1. Anyone competent at doing serious SCA research could have caught
> > that one--the author was perfectly open about what she had done,
> > starting with a description of how she encountered Cornish pasties
> > and liked them. It required zero specialized knowledge to realize the
> > combining a modern pastry crust with a 14th century mushroom pie and
> > shaping it like a Cornish pasty did not produce anything one had any
> > reason to think was period.
> 

Perhaps that wasn't the point. Perhaps the idea was to encourage people 
who are interested in period-like cooking. After all, there are 
Johannae's articles to keep us serious people sedated, and everyone else 
can read about Dukes and jock straps on the desk. 

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