Flaming? Was - Re: List administrator-Re: SC - Who you callin' an 'abomination'?

[Michael Newton]

A lot depends on your organization.  I view the cooking and presentation of
a feast as being inseperable and usually demand total creative control.  I
design the seating layout for the hall with an eye to the service and bring
on a head server, a hall steward and a reservation clerk, early on.
Sometimes, I'm even the entertainment director.

I'm staging a feast at present and using the title, Kitchener.  I have a
head server who will handle set up and traffic flow.  I have a steward who
is reservation clerk and entertainment director and will be my outside agent
and buffer.  I'm handling provisioning for the feast, cooking and kitchen
co-ordination (with taverners and a children's feast, who must do their own
provisioning).

Feasts tend to fail because of bad cooking or because the food can not be
delivered expeditiously to the tables.  Communication failures occur when
the responsibility is divided among several people.  By taking control of
the situation from beginning to end, I can reduce most of failure points.  I
may delegate my authority, but I am responsible, and I am expected to make
the feast work.  I tend to be very wary when the person with the authority
isn't the one responsible for cooking the feast.

Bear

> At our last meeting, we had a short verbal tussle when one of 
> our heralds
> requested that the term 'Head Cook' be used instead of 
> 'Feastocrat' on a
> bid, and someone else thought that meant someone who reported to the
> Feastocrat. When I get time, I'm going to poll our kingdom 
> list for the
> most-popular period equivalent to 'Feastocrat' so we can say 
> to the guy
> who is in charge of the feast that yes, everyone will know 
> that this term
> means the same as feastocrat...
> 
> Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise