[Sca-cooks] Where Have The Cooks Gone?

[Elise Fleming]

Aoife of Chemin Noir wrote:

 >I greatly miss the Tudor Cooks blog.  Have they dropped the blog 
 >altogether?

Unknown.  I e-mailed a local woman who visits Hampton Court kitchens 
frequently and asked her if she knew the status, but I haven't had any 
response.

 From innuendos - and pure supposition - I have a hunch that it might 
not be continued.  The writer (who is only one of the cooks) seems to 
have periodic bouts of something like depression and has had a number of 
computer problems in the past.  His mother had been seriously ill in 
past years and that was one of the reasons behind earlier delays in 
postings.  There has been some jealousy among certain people that the 
blog wasn't their invention.  I got the impression this spring while at 
Hampton Court that possibly some of the HC business folk wanted their 
own version (hence the five short videos that are online) and the 
possibility that due to budget constraints that the cooks wouldn't be 
coming back next year in the same capacity as they have been.

One unfortunate human response that I've noticed is that when something 
is put off for a while, the longer it is put off the less likely it is 
to be re-started.  The more messages of "Come back, please" that are 
received, the more the guilt builds, the more the person can't think of 
a good way to come back and not "lose face", and so the project dies.

I've also noted that the dates for cooking in the kitchens have changed 
from the first full weekend of the month to the last.  I wonder what 
response we'd get if we wrote directly to the business folk at HC and 
tell them how much the blog has meant, and that if it doesn't continue 
in its unofficial form, could they do it in an official form - and not 
just those "static" videos...

Alys K.
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Elise Fleming
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