SC - What would you do?

[Jenne Heise]

I have a related question. It's pretty much come to my attention that my
local group is just never going to consider me ready for 'the big time'
(running an event or a feast)-- there's always going to be one more hoop
to jump through, for me and for others. ;) [Personality issues stink,
don't they?]

Now, right now I certainly don't consider _myself_ ready to run a feast--
I'd need LOTS more practice with period cooking and sit-down meals, since
all my experience with SCA meal planning, preparation and serving has been
dayboards. However, I kinda would like to consider it a goal to cook an
SCA feast. 

But I get the impression that most groups object violently to having
someone from outside the group cook a feast. Some groups even seem to
impose other requirements (membership in a local cook's guild is one I've
heard of). So, is this an impossible dream? Should I consider moving? 
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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
"Our kingdom is a garden and such gardens are not made/By singing "Oh how
beautiful!" and sitting in the shade..." --Kipling, "Glory of the Garden"