SC - Feast Stories from 11th Night Investiture (LONG)

[James F. Johnson]

At 2:26 PM -0800 12/13/99, Lilinah biti-Anat wrote:

>It was a "proper" medieval feast, with dancing, singing, story 
>telling, game playing, juggling, fire eating, etc. between courses. 
>First course went out around 4 PM, then subsequent courses went out 
>at intervals of 1-1/2 hours, and the meal ended around 10 PM.

...

>Then during clean up, one of the elders of the SCA came into the 
>kitchen asking who'd be Kitchen Steward for the feast next year. 
>Well, i (was) volunteered. Eek! Fortunately i have around 11 months 
>to prepare and get some more experience :-)

Just to make your job a little easier...  . So far as I can tell, 
14th and 15th century English and French feasts typically had either 
two or three courses. Le Menagier gives some dinners with more 
platters than that--I think in one case six--but I'm not sure if they 
were all separate courses.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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