SC - Words of wisdom

[Brian L. Rygg or Laura Barbee-Rygg]

This was only my 8th or 9th event, and 1st time ever doing anything beyond
washing dishes or general cleanup.
    It only became an issue the day of the event when I realized that
nothing had been said about or planned ahead for transporting food.
    I had planned for one cold meat dish, one was cooking at the MoAS'
house, and everything else was cooked in my home kitchen, including the
bread (my favorite part).  I had enlisted the help of a dependable friend,
and enlisted another who dropped by to cut up the rabbits.
    Another friend and company stopped by on their way to the feast hall to
see if I needed help transporting the feast and what a godsend.
I then used my station wagon, aforementioned friends' car (one was an old
Checker cab with HUGE trunk) and made it to the feast on time.
    I served 3 removes or courses to 90 people.

    Since then, I have served as Autocrat and Feastocrat several times, and
here in Northern Artemisia the Autocrat is in charge overall and
theoretically responsible for things like getting food to site if needed
(the issue has not come up since but I warn all future cooks about that
possibility).  The cook is in charge of not overspending and doing all the
shopping.  I started the Shire practice of the cook and main helper not
paying for feast, and have since added head dishwasher to that list.
Raoghnailt Marie Béatrix de la Barbe
(Laura E. Barbee-Rygg)
rygbee at montana.com

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net>
To: SCA-Cooks maillist <SCA-Cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 10:36 p.m.
Subject: Re: SC - Words of wisdom


> Raoghnailt Marie Béatrix de la Barbe mentioned:
> > My first feast was for an Artemisian Collegium.  The feast was served at
a
> > site with no kitchen so all cooking was done off-site.  The autocrat had
> > made no plans for transporting food to site.  It was an interesting
time.
>
> I would love to hear the story of this and how you managed to accomplish
> the transport when you realized you were going to have a problem. I think
> this would be an excellant example of "things that can go wrong and how
> to handle them" for my fst-disasters-msg file in the Florilegium.
>
> I am curious why it was assumed this falls within the responsiblity of
> the site steward. My thought would be that it would be the responsiblity
> of the headcook, although open to negotiation. It is for exactly these
kinds
> of things that I like to hold pre-event meetings with all my sub-autocrats
> before an event. I'd like everyone to be aware of what everyone else is
> doing and not doing, so that hopefully things like this don't fall
> "between the cracks".
> --
> Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
> Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
> **** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:
>          http://lg_photo.home.texas.net/florilegium/index.html ****
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