[Sca-cooks] Encouraging Period Cooking

Donna Green donnaegreen at yahoo.com
Thu Jan 27 11:20:41 PST 2011


> 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

Changing the cultural attitudes of a kingdom is often a lengthy process. This includes the negative attitudes toward period food. 

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 :-)

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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