[Sca-cooks] Redaction

[Euriol of Lothian]

Although I still like using "Redaction" as putting it in "an appropriate 
literary form"... for my documentation. I use "My interpretation" to distinguish 
what is my work, that is "inspired" by the original written recipe or 
translation of it.

I got into the habit of using "My interpretation" after I had entered a 
competition a few years back and discovered that the judges did not understand 
by my documentation that I was not cooking someone else's interpretation of a 
recipe, but my own. When I had asked for some feedback from one of the judges, 
and it was said "Well, you really need to do your own interpretations" and I 
replied "These are all my own, I just did not do the translation"... the judge 
looked surprised and then just said "I would have scored your higher."

This was really due to an inter-kingdom anthropology issue as the where I had 
been entering competitions previously, the standard practice was to make your 
own interpretation of the recipe.
 Euriol 



----- Original Message ----
From: Daniel Myers <dmyers at medievalcookery.com>
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tue, January 25, 2011 10:33:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Redaction


> -------- Original Message --------
> From: David Friedman <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>
> Date: Mon, January 24, 2011 11:30 pm
> 
> I think "adaptation" would imply that we have changed the recipe to 
> fit our modern purposes, rather than that we have filled out 
> information that was missing in the original.

That's why I prefer "interpretation".  It doesn't imply any intentional
changes, and suggests that my understanding of the recipe is not
necessarily the only one.

- Doc

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