[Sca-cooks] siege cooking at outlandish - update

[Stefan li Rous]

<<<  Dragon <dragon at crimson-dragon.com> wrote:
> Agreed. I would have quit too.

i understand there was some consternation amongst the
judges as to the complexity of the competition. 8)

and yes, i did take sunday "off", although i must admit
typing the report, and the much venting of spleen it
incurred, was rather cathartic.  thanks, guys.

cailte >>>

I found the challenges in this contest to be interesting. I think it  
added a number of interesting effects and made it less of a direct  
take-off of cooking competition TV shows. I think it also opened up  
the contest to others than the most experienced cooks. I think many  
of the problems can be traced to this being the first event as well  
as the organizers being a bit too optimistic.

I think you and your team made a wonderful effort, but I don't blame  
you for saying enough is enough.

I would like to hear from the other teams and get their impressions.

Early on in your message I was expecting you to say that the  
provisions you had on your "ship" and the kitchen utensils you  
brought on board were going to be all you got and that that would be  
part of the competition, cooking in the confined environment of your  
ship/boat.

On the otherhand, the idea of a wide ranging area over a long time  
period reminds me of the 24 hour battles, that might include your  
encampment, mentioned in this Florilegium file in the COMBAT section.
battle-ideas-msg  (32K) 10/ 4/95    24 hour battles and other ideas.

Stefan
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