[Sca-cooks] Encouraging Period Cooking

Deborah Hammons mistressaldyth at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 15:03:34 PST 2011


Boy is it lengthly.  Although I am firmly in the camp of "just because you
can, doesn't mean you should".  Here in the Outlands we have a different
sort of problem. Some of our more notable and competent cooks are pretty
insular.  And not many branch beyond one comfort cuisine. IMHO it narrows
the gene pool so to speak.  There aren't many active guilds that teach what
we know, or even encourage experimentation in the direction of being
authentic. How do we fix it.  Simple answer, but hard to implement.  Get off
our duffs and teach.  Put those newcomers in our kitchens for some hands on.
(OK, now I am getting off the soapbox I didn't think I was on)

One reason I am teaching "redaction" at Studium  in April, and putting Spain
and its' food on the map at Yummy.

Aldyth

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Donna Green <donnaegreen at yahoo.com> 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.?
> >
> > Mirianna
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> Changing the cultural attitudes of a kingdom is often a lengthy process.
> This includes the negative attitudes toward period food.
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> Make very tasty food and be generous with it. Only after the tasters have
> eaten it and been pleased do you tell them that it is period. i.e. fool them
> into liking period food :-)
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> At the cooks play date at the West An Tir war a couple of years ago, the
> passwords for passersby to be allowed to taste samples was they had to say
> "period food is yummy". We proved it to the multitudes over and over again
> throughout the long weekend. By the second day the line for samples went
> accross and down the road. Making them repeat "period food is yummy" over
> and over again and then giving them yummy food did make a big dent in
> attitudes.
>
> Encourage your local community of cooks to remember that no matter how
> period food is, if it is not tasty it fails. Just like clothing that is oh
> so period but poorly made or doesn't fit fails. Of course, this only works
> with people who have a fairly broad definition of tasty and a willingness to
> taste what the modern palate may call weird. So, start them out on the less
> scary stuff and gently push them toward the more interesting foods over
> time.
>
> Juana Isabella
> West
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