SC - First Feasts & changing traditions

[Decker, Terry D.]

I have a fairly simple attitude about bidding for a feast.  If I am the
cook, where the meal is concerned, my word is law.  This is pretty much of a
necessity when doing thematic feasts (like the Elizabethean I did for last
Protectorate).  The Barony may accept or reject my menu and budget, but they
may not change it.  I am usually willing to listen to reasonable requests,
but the decision to implement a request is mine.

Of course, I've been doing feasts longer than most of the officers have been
in the SCA.  I have the reputation of feeding people well and not losing
money doing it, so most people take me at my word when I tell them what I am
planning, even if they are worried about the execution.

Bear

> Thanks for the insight.  Too bad we have to submit a menu 
> "for approval" prior 
> to the event.  Takes some of the decisions out of the cooks' 
> hands and places it 
> somewhere else.  I'm hoping the autos and senechals I work 
> with will trust me 
> enough to leave my menus alone.  We'll see. I know you can't 
> please all of the 
> feasters all of the time, but I'd like to be able to please 
> the majority. 
> 
> Liadnan