SC - Re: Candied Fruit Peel

[Louise Sugar]

>Decker, Terry D. wrote:
>
>> Interestingly, I have not seen any consideration of what titles should
>> be used the the person autocratting the feast is not the person cooking
>> the feast.  We've covered cooks, but what do we call the Director of
>> Food and Catering at the event when they aren't the Evening's Hash
>> Slinger?
>
>"Pest"? I can see very few situations in the SCA where a
>food-and-beverage manager who doesn't actually cook and/or instruct the
>other cooks would be necessary. There may be some instances, but I feel
>they are rare.
>
>Perhaps I am misunderstanding you. If so, I apologize. I have worked
>with other cooks who have been under the "authority" of a F&B department
>head at events, and it always seems like a golden opportunity to
>eliminate the middleman, who seemed primarily interested in playing
>dominance games with his authority

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>Adamantius
>
>P.S. : The late medieval term, in French, for the F&B manager, who
>supervises both the cuisiner and the butler, but who works under the
>steward, is "officier". 
>______________________________________
>Phil & Susan Troy
>troy at asan.com

A delightful rant it is.  Your opinion of supernumerary managers is
about what mine is.  I've also had similar problems in multiple cook
feasts where someone other the head cook told me how I was to handle my
specialties.

I did upon one occasion need to use a Feast Autocrat (which was the name
we used upon that occasion).  I had committed to my Baroness to create
the feast for an event when the original volunteer had to back out.
Immediately after, I had to spend a lot of time at work and couldn't
handle the details.  I called on my Baroness to handle all of the
details of the feast except the menu and the actual cooking.  This was
especially important as we were using discounted, prepaid reservations
to fund the feast.

This arrangement worked because we had done similar things previously,
we carefully stayed out of each others area of responsibility, and we
talked to each other daily.

I also like the term "officier".  Wish I had known about it when I last
needed it.

Bear

 
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