SC - feasts in each Kingdom

[Michael F. Gunter]

> Not all food is period based here although most of
> the more experienced cooks try to use foods used within period.  Somewhat
> like a transitional period from non-period to period.  Many of our smaller
> newer groups tend to do Texas buffet mostly due to newness and some of our
> cooks also don't like cooking in a period style -- they think it's sissy
> **wink**
> 
> Clare
> 

Sissy, huh?  Would you please point these macho cooks towards myself or Baron
Sir Olaf?  I think we would like to hold a wall-to-wall counseling.  We serve
sissy food.

Also, on the interkingdom feast anthropology.  Another thing which is beginning
to catch on is what I did for Coronation. Servers paid half price for feast and
I served them the complete meal before the feast began.  The servers were then
assigned tables and told to make them happy.  The benefits to this were varied,
the servers were fed so could concentrate on their wards, they knew what each
course was and so could answer questions, (hopefully) they knew they were 
appreciated by both the Cooks and their tables, and also there was very little
confusion about what and who went where.

In answer to the question about paid diners and just table-sitters is that
we frequently have the each paid feaster place his or her feast token in front
of them, them's with tokens get the food.  Our shire usually simply includes the
feast with the site fee.  So basically the feast is free.  When you plan on 
feeding everybody who is there, there's no problem with freeloaders.

Yers,

SIR (and a very macho and nasty SIR it is) Gunthar
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