[Sca-cooks] Local Feast Disappointment

[Daniel Myers]

Note that everyone attending an SCA event is required to make "an
attempt" at medieval costume.  They don't have to be particularly
accurate, they just have to try.

I don't see any reason that those cooking a feast for an event shouldn't
be required to make an attempt at cooking medieval food.  It wouldn't
have to be from any one time or place, it wouldn't have to use fancy or
rare ingredients, it wouldn't even need to be particularly accurate.  It
would just have to be an attempt - the food equivalent of a T-tunic.

- Doc


> -------- Original Message --------
> From: "Terry Decker" <t.d.decker at att.net>
> Date: Fri, November 08, 2013 9:09 pm
> 
> I question the advisability of ordering anyone to cook "period food."  Given 
> some of the feasts I've endured, I'll settle for the cook being able to cook 
> for a group.
> 
> On the other hand, I will be moving to the College of St. Golias, which has 
> some good cooks, who lack experience in historical cooking and culinary 
> history.  Hopefully, I will be an adequate instructor.
> 
> Bear
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 
> Maybe, in order to cook a feast, the group should require it be as close to 
> period food as possible. Make the group in charge of what they want to eat?
> 
> I would hate to pay for feast and find it's not period food as that is the 
> entire point of the feast ...it's the entire point of everything in the 
> SCA...If we loose that, what are we?
> Anne