Coronation Report

I attended the Coronation of Janos and Rachel. It was held at a boy scout camp about 45 min. from Fayetteville. The site was nice, but HUGE so there was a lot of walking to get from one activity to another. Combine that with medieval shoes and clothes and the kind of general corpulentness of some SCAdians and there were a few uncomfortable folks.
On average, things seemed to go pretty well. Brian the Templar fought armored and Gavin fenced. They didn’t do great, but they said they had fun. I did archery for the first time in a few years and did pretty lousy, but I had fun as well.
Feast was nice, but I’m discovering a certain culinary timidity among SCA cooks. Feasts tend to be meat heavy (with an emphasis on roasted meat served in slices) with one or two spectacularly time consuming dishes. In this case it was Baklava (which I love so no worries there). I expect that a certain amount of this comes from the conservativeness of the American palate combined with the meat macho fighter culture in the SCA which produces royals who make proclamations about considering vegetables to be “what food eats”. Maybe this is a medieval perception as well, but I do know that Europeans ate a lot more sauces, spices and starches than are on offer at the average SCA feast. I expect that the only way for me to work out this issue to my satisfaction is to do my own research and develop myself as a cook.