SC - Fw: [Mid] Feasts

[Alderton, Philippa]

Food for thought for we budding
persons-who-wish-to-cook-vast-quantities-of-food-for-the-starving-populace.

phlip at morganco.net

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider that cain't be throwed.

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: Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 19:30:22 
: From: Steve Muhlberger
: To: Middlebridge
: Subject: [Mid] Feasts
: 
: I think the idea of cooking everything in advance and getting your group
: to vet it all is a great one.  The Eoforwic Culinary Guild about 15
: years ago did this all the time, and we had a lot of fun with it.  The
: people at the feasts who praised the food usually didn't realize it was
: EVEN BETTER the first time around.
: 
: My personal gripe with feasts is that after nearly 30 years of them, I
: am unwilling to sit in one place waiting for food, usually in noisy
: surroundings, for hours on end.  I would like the feast to last no more
: than an hour and a half, and for all the food to be brought out in two
: or three courses, not dish by dish with very long gaps in between.
: 
: Even well-cooked and well-organized feasts are usually too long for me. 
: I realize this has a lot to do with the amount of space and the number
: of people in the kitchen preparing and setting out the food -- I've done
: my share of serving and organizing service over the years and know that
: this is almost always a bottleneck, and usually unavoidable. 
: Understanding this does not make a two hour or more feast any more
: enjoyable to me.
: 
: Sometimes people like me (y'know, people with shiny hats) are accused of
: "not supporting the group" if we eat off board.  It's not a lack of
: support of the group so much as the wish to eat in a timely manner,
: maybe in a slightly less noisy environment.  At one of the last events I
: went to we walked about a mile to a Thai restaurant.  The walk was a
: sheer pleasure.
: 
: Finnvarr
: 
: 
: From:  Steve Muhlberger <stevem at faculty.unipissing.ca>
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