SC - help for prospective headcooks
Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
Sat Sep 9 00:23:26 PDT 2000
Nisha asked:
> I have question. Evidently several of you are way
> more advanced than I am where period recipes and
> feastocrating are concerned. HEre's the question,
> where do I start. I am really seriously thinking about
> feastocrasting for an event coming up. It's still in
> the early planning stages, so I have no idea how many
> people we are talking about, or the theme that kind of
> hting.
> I've done field kitchens, and helped in the kitchens
> and serving for other people who were feastocratting.
> I'm five months pregnant (with a few minor
> comlications), so I'm not quite sure how much extra
> work I want to take on for right now. It may be better
> for me to wait til after the baby is born
> before I offer to do an event. Can someone give me
> some advice.
There have been numerous conversations here before on being
a headcook for SCA events. I like to think I've saved some of
the best for folks later reading. Take a look at some of the
files in the FEASTS section of my Florilegium. Here are a few
of the files that I think might be of interest:
headcooks-msg (130K) 8/24/00 Advice for SCA headcooks. Planning feasts.
feasts-fish-msg (11K) 8/21/00 Serving fish at SCA feasts.
feast-decor-msg (17K) 6/17/99 Decorating the feasthall.
feast-ideas-msg (42K) 1/19/98 Ideas for SCA feasts.
feast-menus-msg (44K) 4/11/00 Feast menus from various SCA feasts.
feast-serving-msg (78K) 1/10/00 Ideas for serving feasts. How to organise.
fst-disasters-msg (50K) 8/ 2/00 Tales of SCA feasts that were disasters.
Fst-Menus-art (11K) 4/15/99 "On Rules for Feast Menus"
by Lord Daniel Raoul le Vascon du Navarre.
HC-butchers-art (13K) 10/ 4/97 For Headcooks - How to work with
your local
butcher.
high-table-msg (14K) 6/28/00 Setting up and serving the High Table.
kitchen-clean-msg (14K) 6/11/99 Cleaning the kitchen after an SCA event.
Run-a-Feast-art (14K) 11/ 2/98 "About Running a Feast" by Minna Gantz.
warming-ovens-msg (9K) 7/16/99 Using warming ovens for SCA feasts.
There are also a number of files describing various feasts that
have been done in the past few years and often the menu and recipes
from the feast.
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Lord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas stefan at texas.net
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