[Sca-cooks] What constitutes modern food

[Ian Kusz]

Oh, well, I agree, most of the time, but I think private meals in your
campsite are a special case, don't you?  I mean, I want to give something to
my crew that doesn't break the "reality" we're trying to create, but it's
not for public review and appreciation.

So, the crew will appreciate eating foods that would have been available at
the time, and they'll put any variations under "creative license," or,
"perhaps this cook just didn't publish."

It's hard enough being period at the campsite....

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius <
adamantius1 at verizon.net> wrote:

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> On Jan 24, 2010, at 8:39 PM, Ian Kusz wrote:
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> > I'm not saying, "this is a perfectly-researched, period food."  I'm
> saying,
> > "this is a portable, almost-period food, that might be a useful
> > interpretation for camping."
> >
> > Anyway, I just thought it might be something within the realm of period,
> but
> > I appear to have spit upon the Pope, or tickled the Ayatollah.
>
> Possibly. To me, at least, the question is, are we better off, playing the
> game we do,  asking ourselves about period solutions to problems, or about
> making modern solutions appear to be period.
>
> Sometimes we don't have an alternative, but if we do, it's usually worth
> pursuing.
>
> Adamantius
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