[Sca-cooks] Period substitute for tomatoes?

[Judith Epstein]

On Aug 22, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Carol Smith wrote:

> Judith, you said that "cooking is the one thing you can do in a  
> short time frame".  What about your attire?  Surely, you could sew  
> on other days of the week (by hand is "best" but sewing straight  
> seams by machine is the modern equivalent of handing that work off  
> to the new apprentice seamstress, according to one of the better  
> sewing Laurels I know).

Yes, once I learn to sew, I'll surely be looking the part. But that's  
not something I can do at events, only something I can appear at  
events. Cooking is the one thing I can actually DO at an event, albeit  
not actually on the Sabbath itself. On Shabbat, the thing I can do is  
interact (with people through conversation, with God through prayer)  
in a Period way, and yes, I'm working on that, too.

Judith