[Sca-cooks] Period Cooking in the U.K.?

[Karen Lyons-McGann]

While living there I encountered guilds of recreationists who hired  
themselves out to do demos at historcal sites.  Say ten to twenty  
people playing roles as gentry and servants of a particular time  
period.  Often travelling great distances to era-appropriate sites and  
charging the site a fee.  Like SCA the participants may be interested  
amatuer researchers but the overall standard is higher as the fees  
from the sites fund them at least partially and the sites won't hire  
groups who do the job badly.

There are also mre SCA type groups but they are not as broad ranging  
time and location wise.     The most actve recreationists in our area  
were roman and civil war era groups given that our local sites were  
Colchester Castle, which is built over a roman temple; and other  
buildings which survived a civil was seige of the town.

Lady Bonne

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On Oct 12, 2010, at 12:33 AM, David Friedman <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>  
wrote:

> I've just put up a blog post on differences between historical  
> recreation in the U.S. and in the U.K. One question that occurred to  
> me was whether those differences had implications for cooking. Is  
> there an active community of amateur medieval cooks in the U.K. as  
> there is here, or is it something done mostly by professionals for a  
> paying audience?
>
> Do any of the regular participants here live in the U.K.? If so,  
> what are your impressions?
> -- 
> David/Cariadoc
> www.daviddfriedman.com
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