SC - Pennsic cooking classes

[Michael F. Gunter]

I note that no one has stated the size of the feasts in question.  As feast
sizes increase, the logistics of preparation, serving and clean up become
more difficult and labor intensive.  I've handled a feast for 120 including
the clean up with a kitchen staff of two.  A feast for 400 required someone
on the dishes through the feast, but the final clean up was easier, because
we were able to clean as we worked.  We also had a clean up crew to finish
off the dishes and clean the kitchen and the hall.

As a general rule below 200 at the feast, I try to work with a minimal crew
and I participate heavily in the clean up.  Over 200, I try to have extra
people to relieve the kitchen staff and to handle clean up.  My role becomes
that of supervisor.

The only time I have ever left the clean up completely in someone else's
hands was after a brutal nine hours of trying to salvage a feast that had
been preceded by a 500 mile night drive with the last 200 through a
blizzard.  Someone got me a BigMac and a cup of coffee and I remember
collapsing on the bed at the motel.

Bear    


> In a message dated 4/10/99 12:49:08 PM, gwalli at infoengine.com writes:
> 
> << >Absolutely outrageous. Jasmine, where was your clean up crew?
> Sometimes 
> you
> >have to gently nudge the clean up situation but as head cook you should
> >never never
> >never never have to clean up after you have done a feast. >>
> 
> Please pardon my jumping in, but where on earth did this expectation come 
> from? No one cleans up after me at home when I make a big meal, except me.
> 
> I fully expect, and the other cooks in our barony that I've encountered
> also 
> have this expectation, to clean up after the feast. That's part and parcel
> of 
> doing a feast. One does all the prep work ahead of time, does the cooking
> the 
> day of, and does the cleaning up after. If one doesn't want to do the work
> of 
> cleaning up, one shouldn't do the feast, IMNSHO.
> 
> Your humble servant,
> Lady Rosalyn MacGregor
> (Pattie Rayl)
> 
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