[Sca-cooks] I posed these questions to my kingdom....

[David Friedman]

>1.  What dishes and/or foods will make you want to go and feast?

Dishes that are period and tasty.

>2.  What don't you like to see served at a feast?

Strikingly out of period things, such as chocolate or iced tea. 
Things that are sufficiently late period to link much more strongly 
to modern cooking than to period cooking, such as turkey or potatoes, 
unless the cook has actually researched and produced a period recipe 
for them. Beets--because they are icky.

In persona, I can't eat pork, but I don't mind it's being served as 
long is it isn't too major a part of the feast.

>3.  What would you like to see served more at feast?

Period dishes.

>4.  How many courses do you think is a proper feast?

I think the evidence on the French/English 14th-15th c. feasts--the 
cuisine I think of as generic medieval--is that there were usually 
either two or three courses. That suits me fine.

>5.  What is your favorite country or region to taste dishes from?

I don't think I have one. I've been more interested in recent years 
in Islamic cuisine than others, but I'm happy to eat foreign food.

>6.  Would you want to see other country's period dishes represented that are
>beyond the traditional SCA borders? (Chinese, Arabic,etc.)

Islamic cuisine is, I think, appropriate to the SCA, since there was 
a lot interaction between the Islamic world and western Europe, with 
populations mixing in Spain, southern Italy, Outremer, and elsewhere. 
Chinese or Japanese is a very considerable stretch, and one I'm less 
comfortable with. Modern Chinese or Japanese food seems to me 
inappropriate.
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David/Cariadoc
www.daviddfriedman.com