[Sca-cooks] chains of command

[Susan Fox-Davis]

At Altavia Investiture about 19 years ago, one of my servers wound up as Crown
Princess three weeks before the event.  She insisted that she was allowed to
serve tables if she wanted.  I had her serve the head table, in an elegant
compromise.

Selene, Caid

Siegfried Heydrich wrote:

>     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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