[Sca-cooks] snails and puppy dog tails...

[Antonia]

On 28/01/2011 5:37 AM, Audrey Bergeron-Morin wrote:
> Here, we have a cook (Hi Petru!) who is well know for his unusual (and
> extremely yummy) feasts. Those of us who are fans would pay a small
> fortune to attend any feast he was cooking; it came to the point where
> we will rarely stay for feast if somebody other than him is cooking,
> at least in our local group. We've eaten too many feasts of bread with
> honey butter, barley stew, glazed carrots/parsnips and overcooked
> roast. When you attend too many SCA feasts, there's a certain bland
> "standard" that ends up always tasting the same. Petru, on the other
> hand, has served us, in the last few years, among other things, frog
> legs and snails, both of which went over extremely well, and a lot of
> things usually considered adventurous (lamb or fish, for example).


YMMV.  In some parts of the SCA world, this is absolutely not the case.  
I don't think I've seen honey butter in ten years, and I see fish and 
lamb on a regular basis.





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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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