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Salutation
I am pleased to notify all people who lead a decent life and take pleasure in cooking, frying, broiling, stewing in kettle, cauldron, braising, roasting, grilling on fire or live coal, that by the grace of God and in my own free will, on the 1th of July, in the year of Our Lord 2008, I establish the universal
The Order of Knighthood of the Openairfire
Our Order will be united in faith and love, and will be determined to encourage all men, women, children and elderly people to prepare fine food and good beverages under the open sky.
I look particularly graciously upon those who perform their activities with the help of live fire or glowing embers and in the company of other people. I forward my hearty encouragement to them.
The Abbreviated Name of the Order is therefore:
Order of Outdoor Fires.
All people in every part of the world who think about cooking outdoors and all related activities with affection, who are benevolant and respectful to other people, who approach all ingerdients and raw meterials needed for cooking with due care and attention, and who accept and honour the Articles of the Order are worthy of membership in the Order.
Worthiness is presupposed from candidates for membership in the Order and is expected from its established members.
We reject and persecute all intentions and endeavours that include the use of unnecessary chemicals and materials treated or processed in any way other than natural. In the course of the preparation of food and during meals we accept the duly moderate consumption of beverages that are good for the body and for the soul.
Should your fire never cease burning!
G. Z. Attila
The Grand Master of the Order of Knighthood of Openairfire
Articles of the Order of Outdoor Fires
Article I
Those who belong to the Order will prepare all food and beverages in good will, honour, good humour and perfect devotion to the perfection of the food or beverage they are preparing. The members of the Order shall never intentionally prepare any food or drink that might be harmful or unpleasant to themselves or to other people.
Article II
The members of the Order will make use of every opportunity to prepare their food outdoors. It may, naturally, include light food that is gentle to the stomach.
Article III
The members of the Order will make efforts to use non-smooty hardwood or its glowing ember for their fires, or to use the natural, pure heat of the Sun.
Article IV
While preparing food, the members of the Order will be wearing the high cap sporting the coat of arms of the Order whenever possible, and will take full responsibility for the quality of food they serve to the people in their company.
Article V
The members of the Order will select a suitable place and participate in a
joint cooking/barbecueing day of the Order
in the company of other members of the Order at least once every year.
There the members will have an opportunity to show their newly acquired skills and expertise to the other members present, and will be ready to heartily share their experience with the others. They do so in order to improve themselves and the other members.
Article VI
The structure of the Order of Outdoor Fires
Upon their enrollment, new members of the Order–unless their learned trade is cooking–will first be named Smokies. After one year of confirmed membership in the Order of Outdoor Fire, or if the Grand Master, seeing their excellence, decides so earlier, the Smokies will become Knights, without any further procedure.
They will be addressed as Smokey of the Order of the Outdoor Fires and Knight of the Order of Outdoor Fires respectively.
The Level of Officers – Captains
The Smokies and Knights will be under the command of Captains. In order to improve the structure of the Order of the Outdoor Fires, the Captains will have the authority to select and appoint lieutenants.
They will be addressed as Lieutenant of the Order of the Outdoor Fires, Captain of the Order of the Outdoor Fires etc.
The head of a region, a county or other territorial unit will be the Captain-General. It will the authority and responsibility of the Captain-General to select and appoint his/her Captains.
He/she will be addressed as Captain-General of the Order of the Outdoor Fires.
The Captain-General will also have the authority to select other contact persons and, as they find it appropriate, confer different titles upon the contact persons thus selected.
The level of the Fire Masters
The head of the Captain-Generals, the supreme fire master in a country or a larger region will be addressed as Master.
They will be addressed as e. g.: the Greek Master of the Order of the Outdoor Fires, the Hungarian Master of the Order of the Outdoor Fires, the Russian Master of the Order of the Outdoor Fires etc.
The supreme head of the Masters and that of the entire Order of the Outdoor Fires, the Grand Master is me,
Attila Zoltán Garai,
founder of the Order of the Ooutdoor Fires, until I decide to give up this title.
Article VII
Granting titles
The Grand Master and the Masters are authorized to confer any lower title on persons who they find worthy of the title on their own decision, or if at least three officers recommend the person, and the Masters and/or the Grand Master agree with the recommendation.
Article VIII
Joining the Order, Membership
Any worthy person may become a regular member in the Order of Open Airfire who duly fills in the registration sheet at our web site, pays in or transfers the membership fee.
The funds received from the membership fees will be used for covering the costs connected directly and indirectly to the due appearance, normal operations and development of the Order.
All New Members are Received into the Order by the Grand Master.
The process of receiving new members (presupposing their worthiness) is automatic, so the applicant will be regarded as a member of the Order for a period of one year.
In exchange for the fee duly paid in, we send you an apron or cap decorated with the coat of arms of the Order.
Members retain their membership by confirming their intention annually and paying in the membership fee for the forthcoming year. On these occasions members receive a new cap, with their names and titles on it. The colour of the sun shield of the cap varies according to title.
Article IX
Life Membership in the Order
Members confirming (renewing) their membership three times and not losing their worthiness will become life members of the Order. The Grand Master and the Masters are authorized to grant this title to members who are found worthy of it.
Article X
Termination of Membership in the Order
The membership of a person is automatically cancelled and terminated if positive evidence of the person’s unworthiness is received or the person fails to renew their membership.
The unworthiness of a person, and together with it, the exclusion of the person from the Order, will be judged by the Grand Master, or any of the Masters individually, or three members (one of whom is an officer). Such a decision will always be based upon a thorough consideration of all aspects of the issue.
Article XI
Promoting the Mutual Improvement of the Members
The Grand Master of the Order and his assistants will make sure that the Order continually supplies information to its members. For this purpose, the multi-lingual web pages of the Order will be used primarily.
It is a possibility of, and at the same time an expectation from the members of the Order of the Open Fire to regularly share their experience, receipts, methods and stories with others, with everybody who is fond of cooking outdoors all over the world. The purpose of this is making people interested in practising this pleasant, agreeable activity.
Registered members are therefore expected to upload–possibly multilingual–descriptions of their best recipes, illustrated with images or video footages to the website of the Order, thus creating the
online cookbook of the Order,
accessible to everyone.
Every member of the Order, but especially the officers, is expected to regularly contribute to the online cookbook.
Article XII
General Enclosures
Every member of the Order, but especially those whose have a position or title, is supposed to make sure that the Articles of the Order are observed. They will make joint efforts to preserve the unity of the Order of Oudoor Fires. They will in this way set an example to all in the culture of preparing food in a healthy and natural way, in preserving the traditions of such cooking, and in forming a community.
The Grand Master forms and annually summons the Supreme Council of the Order of Outdoor Fires.
At such occassions, the Masters, officers and knights, all excelling in the art of cooking outdoors, abandon themselves in this noble activity and discuss awards to be granted to the worthiest and make proposals to the Grand Master regarding the general improvement of the Order of Outdoor Fires.
Should your fire never cease burning!
G. Z. Attila
The Grand Master of the Order of Knighthood of Openairfire
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