SC - Cooking at Faire

[MAGGIE SECARA]

Oh no, sorry to confuse. Not selling at all. That's more than I'd ever like
to take up. A food booth at a Faire is a pain in the bum, or so I hear from
those who've done it. 

Rather, my Faire persona these days is a German campfollower with a
chamringly checkered past. Our group is a mercenary company of motly
composition (mostly Scots, English, and German soldiers and their women)
called Antares Company http://www.xpressweb.net/antares/.  I cook for the
Landsknecht officers and their training command--all told, a subscription
list of about 12, mostly men. The rest of the company eats at the common
board <sniff> for which the weekly fee is about half what I charge, and
mainly in the bread, sausage, and cheese school. Actually, I could do it for
less, if there were more subscribers, but I kind of liked keeping the
numbers down this year. 

Cooking was all done at home, so everything was eaten cold. That sometimes
does sad things to pie crusts, but still everyone went away from the table
well fed every day, with all their tastes, sensibilities, sensitivities
taken into account.  I've got them trained so well they'll try anything, and
they never ever even ask for chocolate anymore. :)  My table isn't perfectly
period in all cases, but all the main dishes mainly are and the rest is what
I call "authentically plausible". And the one Leutenant who doesn't care for
cherries pronounced that the sauce with the beef was "mooseberries" since he
liked it so it couldn't possibly be cherries.

So no, no licensing required, just the continuing support of "my boys".  

I have my menus (and some of the source citations) from all 13 days, if
anyone's interested.  

MaggiRos
fka, Clara Munter, the soldier's friend

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secaram at mainsaver.com

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Schumacher, Deborah (AZ15)
> [SMTP:Deborah.Schumacher at iac.honeywell.com]
> Sent:	Friday, June 04, 1999 2:17 PM
> To:	sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject:	SC - Quiet Cooks?
> 
> 
> 	
> 	Maggie said :
> 
> 	>About the faire... It was a terrific 6 weeks, and I only repeated
> myself
> 	>once: armoured turnips, because they're too popular not to do
> again.
> 	
> 	6 weeks of cooking for a faire? So what else did you cook? I am
> assuming you were selling these to the populace? 
> 	How did it work out? What sort of food handling licensing did you
> have to go through? Tell me more! :-)
> 
> 	If no one else is interested please reply to my privately.
> 
> 	Zoe Valonin
> 	Barony of Sundragon	
> 	Atenveldt
> 
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