[Sca-cooks] "Bad" language

[otsisto]

Potluck, AFAIK, is Old English word and usually refers to 1 of 2 things. 1.
Guest drop by around dinner time and you prepare whatever is on hand. 2. a
communal dinner where every one brings something to the dinner. I don't know
how far back the tradition goes but I know that German Lutherans have
practiced the #2 meaning since the 1800s. Either as a church get together or
just friends and family gatherings.
And then there is tradition of the coffee cake which is probably a off shoot
of tea cakes but Northern Europe style. :)

De

-----Original Message-----
> Sorry, I don't even like it then.  How about "feast steward?"  Or "Feast
> Organizer?"  Neither may necessarily by period terms, but then the concept
> of a pot luck dinner probably isn't either...unless you're doing a
> northwest
> Indian potlatch!
>
> Kiri