SC - Modern English - OT

[margali]

> Since I tend to be busy in the kitchen, I usually share a place with
> my
> wife. Sometimes I have my own plate, or trencher, sometimes not. But
> eating with a knife and fingers (perhaps a spoon too) is standard
> practice - do SCA people use forks?
> (The odd byzantine fork makes an appearance, especially at eastern
> feasts, but I don't think the idea will ever really take off ;)
>
> charles Ragnar

my lord and i also tend to work in the kitchen or serve, though due to
my back getting worse i have been slacking off, resting on my
non-laurels i suppose, lol, so i will keep a plate of food for him if
the cook isnt feeding them in the kitchen.

i would love to do a formal very well researched feast, but the problem
is getting servers sometimes. a small, 25-50 person renn feast in the
style of catherine demedici would be opulent, but then again we run into
the problem of sca feast habbits.  even the early period personas
decorate the tables in a hollywood manner[with a few exceptions i have
run across] little problems like the lighting[candles] on the table,
everybody having a full place setting in front of them, decorative
centerpieces and the like. near as i have found, the earlier feasts had
the hall lit with torches, cressets and the like not on the table, the
decorations on the table may have beena fancy cloth, as i mentioned
before often they shared place settings, in the high court feasts it was
pretty much 1 server per 2 or 4 people...and about the only centerpiece
would be the salt celler, deviding the uppers from those 'below the
salt'...
margali

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