Mooned

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Yesterday was tpau's event, Snowed In At the Castle. I spent the day in the kitchen helping rufinia (who cooked a large and very nummy feast). Jehan and I had discussed plans to give a Daystar (baronial service award), so I expected jdulac to send a page in to find me sometime during the afternoon so we could invite the candidate, but the prospective member didn't come to the event. However, Jehan and new_man did step into the kitchen to ask for a private word with me. It took til we were out in the hall for me to put two and two together, that the Baron and the Principal of the Order of the Moon had just asked to speak with me (first parsing was, the Baron and one of his heralds, and I thought they were there about the Daystars).

The Moon is an Arts award. Arts and Sciences, me? Well, it seems the consensus of the order is that autocratting is a science, and cooking feast is an art; I do both, often, and I am teaching both, to my protegee and others.

Naturally, I accepted :)

So in court, my Moon induction was one of the two items of business, the other being a Letter of Safe Passage to a departing student from Greenwood Isle.

Comments

[elizabear.livejournal.com]

Wah! I'm sorry I missed it!!

BTW, in addition to autocratting, a term used in the recommendation was "kitchening", which the members of the order felt that you had indeed brought to the level of an art. :)

One of the ways to think about recognizing someone for A&S is "if you have a question about the best way to do something, who do you go see to learn about it?". You have lots of service awards for all of the fabulous work that you do, but the order wanted to recognize your vast trove of knowledge on the subjects and your willingness to assist and teach others what you know. One of the other tests is "impact on the barony", which was never in doubt.

[jducoeur]

Yes -- the kitchening was really the lynchpin. Not so much the autocratting and cooking separately, but the intersection of the two. You've done more with the trick of how to pull off an effective and good period feast than most...