[Sca-cooks] Local Feast Disappointment

[Mercy Neumark]

Maybe I'm wrong but  from what I've seen, it's all about the climate of the Barony or Geopolitical unit that is running the event. If those that are in charge lead by example and push for being authentic, then the output of their events, largess and so forth will be closer to period.  And of course, the opposite, which if they just want food and who cares (or variants if that) then you get the opposite. 

On the same note, there has always been (here) some people that don't want to research. No matter how easy it is now, you have this issue. I think that at least Facebook is encouraging interaction and TRYING to get people involved in learning. It gets people thinking. I really think that Facebook is a great tool for reaching people who may have never given one thought to period cooking. They can control the amount of information they consume and hopefully people can lead by example there. I attribute the rise in period cooking and brewing to Facebook. Now we just need to keep improving the information and encouragement there which will hopefully get things going further. 

--Mercy (on Facebook as Mercy Asakura, feel free to add me as a friend)

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