SC - feast disasters and recovery
RichSCA at aol.com
RichSCA at aol.com
Wed Apr 12 09:47:07 PDT 2000
Sorry, but I am LOL with this one. It is SO CLOSE to something that happened
at an event years ago in Meridies (actual groups, people and places altered
to protect the guilty and innocent). :-)
I had just joined a group who was having an event. The cook had moved out of
the Kingdom, but promised that they would be back to prepare the feast. They
mailed a "shopping list" of ingredients to the autocrat. No recipes, no
dishes named, no comments, just a list of what to purchase. They said they
would be on site at about 5:00 Saturday morning. I was the breakfast cook.
At 5:00 I was there cooking - no one else. I was serving breakfast at 7:00am
- - still no feast cook. Contacted the autocrat who called the feast cook.
Guess what??? You guessed right - he/she wasn't coming. The autocrat sent
word to all the experienced cooks on site. A Lady showed up (can't remember
her name) with her "household, kitchen staff, etc." and immediately had a
"Closed" kitchen (can't blame her at all). I pulled out the shopping list,
gave it to her and was promptly ushered out the door. They brought no
cookbooks with them - but the ideas inside their heads. The feast turned out
well. None of the guests (populace) were the wiser and lessons were learned.
And yes, when I got ready to cook breakfast Sunday morning I had a TON of
unused food to select from. :-) I put it into baggies and placed it on the
counter for people to take home with them.
Rayne
In a message dated 4/12/00 9:06:18 AM Central Daylight Time,
ekoogler at chesapeake.net writes:
<<
I think that the worst disaster I've ever encountered was the First
Investiture of the
Barony of Black Diamond (Atlantia), longer ago that most of us want to
admit. The
group had hired a threesome of young ladies who had never cooked a feast
before. They
looked through some magazines, found pictures of some dishes they liked and
when out
and purchased the necessary ingredients (no pre-cook, definitely NOT
period). Also,
they agreed with the site owners that the kitchen would not be available
until 3:00.
The day of the event the three young ladies were nowhere to be found...they
had
panicked and refused to cook the feast.
So. Several of us who were experienced were called in to try to sort things
out. We
were able to use most of the ingredients they had purchased, but had to
augment them
with additional purchases (I still have fond memories of my lord trying to
find Brie
in Blackburg, VA.) We were able to come up with a feast, not all from
period recipes,
but at least "periodoid"...and one that folks seemed to enjoy!
Whew!!!!!!
Kiri
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