[Sca-cooks] chains of command

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    Our tenth year King, Baldar Longstrider, feastcratted his own coronation
feast. He got about 5 of the best cooks in the Kingdom, had us draw cards
for the dishes we were going to prepare, and we went at it. That was the
legendary 4 hour feast . . .

    Sieggy

----- Original Message -----

> Geeez...didn't stop _our_ Baroness at all (she did feast for last
> January's Arts&Sciences).  We just made sure there were sufficient
> "helpers" in the kitchen handling preparations while she was holding
> court, and during dinner, when she was up at head table.
> I think I'd be tempted to tell your populace that "Yes, I can cook this
> feast, _because_ I'm Baroness." <g>  Baronial prerogative ought to be
> good for something, right? (besides doing things like shifting the
> baronial business meeting up a week so that you can go to see _Lord of
> the Rings_ on opening night, like ours did ;-D.....)
> --Maire
>
> Gaylin Walli wrote:
> >
> > Kiri wrote:
> >
> > >Yes, they do...in fact even a single peerage beats out a baroncy.
> >
> > I believe there is at least one Kingdom where this is not true, though
> > I'm hard pressed to name the kingdom.
> >
> > >The only place where this is possibly not true is that a landed
> > >baron is next to the
> > >Crown in the "chain of command", as he/she is the voice of the Crown to
the
> > >people of the barony, therefore technically outranking any peer in that
> > >group, royal or otherwise.
> >
> > The key to this in the Middle Kingdom is "in court." In my barony I
> > am outranked
> > by every single Peer except when I sit in court. While in court as
> > part of court,
> > I outrank everyone save the Royalty present.
> >
> > >Kiri (delighted that her term as Baroness has been extended another two
> > >years
> >
> > YEAH!
> >
> > >  but bummed that it'll be another two years before she can cook a
feast
> > >in Dun Carraig without running into the "you're the Baroness, you can't
cook
> > >a feast!" thing)
> >
> > Oh thank god I'm not the only one. Every time I offer, you'd think I'd
> > sprouted a new head or three and just profaned the most sacred of
> > SCA history or something. I do swear that my least favorite phrase
> > by the time I'm done will be "But you're the Baroness, you can't!" I
> > literally have to *leave* my barony to help cook a feast.
> >
> > Iasmin
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