[Sca-cooks] siege cooking at outlandish - update

[Kathleen A Roberts]

On Wed, 28 May 2008 00:27:34 -0500
  Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> 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.

well, ours are open to anyone who wants to play.  the 
problem came when we had an hour of hiking around the site 
to get provisions that sometimes weren't there.  that and 
that damn pvc boat (you should excuse my language).  an 
elongated pentagon of floppy plastic pipe that had to be 
carried everywhere, holding it up with your arms extended 
at a 45 degree angle.  imagine walking over rough terrain 
(in some altitude) like that for an hour.  that's what 
beat us before we started.  my traps are still a bit sore.

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

i heard that the winner (who is supposed to coordinate the 
next year's contest) said next year all we get is rice and 
we can bring any spices and herbs we want.   some serious 
siege cooking there....

> 
> 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,

not so bad.  just don't make me waste a quarter of it 
getting the food. ;)

cailte
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