[Sca-cooks] Fwd: Media Inquiry for Historic Cooks/Hearth Cooks

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Mar 5, 2009, at 6:37 PM, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> I saw one episode of one of these shows featuring one family who was  
> devoted to things medieval. Under normal circumstances they probably  
> looked a lot like many people we all know - or are. But on the show  
> they seems weird and out of touch with reality. I don't remember the  
> other family - clearly very buttoned-down, organized, and "modern".

I think I remember seeing some of that. What I missed probably was  
broadcast after I ran, screaming, first to hurl my dinner and then to  
briefly consider tearing my eyes out.

As I recall, the "modern" family (which was not without its  
dysfunctional aspects, which were of course downplayed) was both  
chosen and actively portrayed to serve as contrast to the "medieval"  
family, who were... well... very, very much into the middle ages, but  
also with certain aspects of their lives emphasized so as to make them  
appear as web-footed, inbred, insane, and home-schooled-in- 
questionable-material as was humanly possible.

I expect there may be people like that family, but I think they came  
across as more time-travel extremists than they actually were, and  
this was probably intentional.

I guess it depends on how badly you need $20K. Do you get it for  
participating, or do you have to "win"? Whatever that means?

Adamantius






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