A Question for the Cooks

[callistotoni]

As you may remember, I want to organize a Gaston Pheobus-inspired equestrian picnic/"hunt", to occur no sooner than next year. I have a pretty good idea of what factors (such as site and planned activities) would make this a fun event for equestrians. But since one of the main ideas behind this event would be to combine EQ stuff with other SCA activites -- in this case cooking -- I need to have a good idea as to what factors would make such an event fun for the cooks.

So I'm asking you, my cooking friends, what would tempt you to participate in a Gaston Pheobus-style hunt picnic? To be clear, I don't even know whether or not you'd want to feed the riders. It could be that you'd just want to have a late 14-15th C cooks (French?) playday, and then everyone eats some period picnic food that's brought by someone/riders/whoever wants to bring something. Maybe non-cooks pay for ingrediants if they eat the food cooked? I don't know; that's why I'd like some input. :-)

So, what would tempt you to such an event? What would discourage you? If you'd like to do it, how far would you be willing to travel? Site and weather requirements? Activities other than those of a "cooks playday" that I'm not thinking of? Bottom line: What would make such an event fun for you?

Comments

[callistotoni.livejournal.com]

So at our 12th Night meeting the WK EQ group wondered what it could do to encourage attendence to EQ events. Eventually the idea came to combine EQ stuff with other SCA activites. (See one of my previous posts from after 12th Night). I was inspired by the illuminations from the Gaston Pheobus Book of the Hunt, of which there are several versions. hrj used one of these for her postcard-sized handout Picnic Projec handout at 12th Night. Besides there being very cool depictions of a hunt, there's a scene of the lord before the hunt dining with his fellow hunters. This was a tableu (sp?) that I thought we could use for a combined EQ/Cook playday.

One version can be found here:
http://www.themorgan.org/collections/swf/exhibOnline.asp?id=823

I have a paperback of illuminatons from another version.

If we could get people to replicate the costumes of the illuninations and have some sort of "hunt" that could be a new thing for our EQ crowd to work towards, and have fun in the process. The other part of the equation is, of course, to get cooks to be interested in participating in this tableau as well. You can think of this as an EQ manifestation of the Period Picnic Project, as well as a performance art project. ;-)

[joycebre.livejournal.com]

I had a dream about this last night. I was going to help make clothing for some of the people involved. I asked you who we needed to clothe, and you said 'I'll get the list of attendees from Bethany'. Then you came back and said 170 people were going to be attending. Then I woke up, probably due to fear. :-)

[callistotoni.livejournal.com]

You are a funny funny woman... ;-)