[Sca-cooks] snails and puppy dog tails...
Kathleen Roberts
karobert at unm.edu
Thu Jan 27 14:34:00 PST 2011
On 28/01/2011 6:18 AM, V O wrote:
> I know in some Kingdoms you have things like all day feasts, and that it can be
> the center of an event. Here we have so much antagonism and blase attitudes
> toward "period" foods, that if someone tried to do, "unusual", the event and the
> feast would fail.
hi mirianna!
oh, i don't know. too much unusual, yes i would think so in a carnivore kingdom. ;) but some unusual or something not often done slipped in with the familiar can work pretty well.
i try to make a menu of period food that is general populace friendly (there is a lot out there) and put in something unusual somewhere. fortunately my husband is a pretty good guinea pig in both taste and temperament. his bugaboo is texture, as it is with many people... good lesson to learn.
at midwinter it was shrimp in a sticky sauce. everyone thought it would tank pretty much, but not one came back. now i did hear of some games of chance or fisticuffs at a table or two for the uneaten ones, and granted i only allowed one (32 count, i recall) per person on a appetizer course, but still.... i was expecting at least 25% of them to come back to the kitchen.
unexpected at a feast for 300, but still familiar.
cailte
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