SC - Preventing Bad Feasts

[david friedman]

At 12:38 PM -0500 10/24/00, Rosalyn MacGregor wrote:
>If we accept that this is the case, what can the autocrat and group to do to
>insure that an incredibly spectacular failure doesn't happen? And, will the
>cook allow such a scrutiny to take place?

One thing we like to do is to do a rehearsal--the whole feast, in 
advance, scaled to one table. Guests consists of the cooks, the 
autocrat, and at least one person with conservative tastes. One 
objective is to see how the feast works as a whole. A second  is to 
see whether quantities are badly off. A third is to spot likely 
bottlenecks.
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