SC - What would you do?

[Elaine Koogler]

I have cooked several feasts for other groups.  In fact, I've done two for our
neighbor barony, Lochmere...that's where I did the Elizabethan feasts.  I have
also been asked to mentor other new cooks in that group so that they can build
up their reserve of experienced cooks.  Generally, the expectation in Atlantia
is that the landed baronage does not cook feasts for their home group as they
are expected to serve as hosts to local events.  Fortunately I occasionally get
asked to cook outside my home group...otherwise I'd go nuts!

Kiri

Jenne Heise wrote:

> 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?
>  --
> 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"
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