Serving Dishes Re: SC - Re: The Perfect Feast

[Jeff Gedney]

> How do other groups manage a serving dish inventory? What about pitchers
> for drinks?

This is from memory from the last time I cooked an event, but...
Our household and Our Local Barony ( Dragonship Haven, East Kingdom ) 
went halvsies on a visit to to a Commercial kitchen supply place, and 
acquired a bunch ( I think 20 ) of those Brown hard composite serving 
trays 16 inches in Diameter, an odd assortment of plastic serving trays
round and rectangular, a stack of about 40 or so 12 inch stainless metal 
bowls, a stack of about 40 or so 12 inch woven wood salad type bowls, 
a stack of about 40 or so 4 inch woven wood salad type bowls, a stack 
of about 40 or so 3 inch stainless steel bowls, assorted large stainless 
spoons and stainless slotted spoons 40 Plastic Pitchers of the kind 
that are supposed to look like cut glass.

The deal was that these would be made available for the Barony at 
any Barony events, but the Household could have access to them
for Serving at other events where we are called on to run service.
At the time the Head of the Household ( "Lady Chieftess" ) was the 
house Slave, Dyan, and she organized and ran serving for about 7 
or 8 events a year.

I believe that one group or the other has since bought up the other 
half's share, and the stock made up fo rthe other resulting in a 
comfortable plethora of serving gear.

Actually now that I think about it, Dyan may have just bought most of 
the stuff outright, and combined it with what the Barony bought for 
itself about the same time... 

Shoot, that is what happens when you have been in the SCA for 
so long, your brain cells start to fossilize...

Brandu