SC - how often to be head-cook

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Bonne of Traquair wrote:
> 
> >my husband says I can only
> >do a feast every other year... (I think he stressed
> >more than I did!)
> >-Beatrix
> 
> I've been self-limited to one feast per year as head cook.  There is so much
> involved in doing the whole show and being head cook isn't the only fun
> around.  Opportunities such as being a deputy cook, lunch cook,  or
> teaching, even number of events and helping in kitchens in might have to be
> passed up in favor of cooking a second event within the year.  Perhaps if
> one or both were small feasts it wouldn't interfere much with all the other
> fun.
> 
> I know some around here have done more than one feast per year, but I don't
> think anyone makes a habit of it!  I'd like to know how they manage.  And
> did they plan to do multiple feasts, or just have to to step up from deputy
> cook?
> 
> Bonne

My home group, The Crown Province of Ostgardr, East Kingdom, has a
policy about event stewarding no more than once per year, in order to
limit and prevent burnout. I don't think there's anything on the books
about doing kitchener duty more than once a year, but it seems to work
out that way in practice. We have a fair number of cooks; it's a big
group.  Now, _working_ in an event kitchen is another matter; there are
certainly no restrictions on that.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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