[Sca-cooks] What would you advise?

[Rosine]

It was said that she insists on eating on-board,
and now I'm wondering why.  Given that this is
a new person, does she in fact know that she can
bring her own food and still sit with her friends to
eat (at least, I assume that she can)?

*smiling* That would have occurred to me too, given the way I wrote up the
first message. She's new to our area, but not the SCA. She and her husband
come from Utah and Texas (met at SCA events, fell in love, newly married, he
transferred here). She's a member of House Drumming Thunder, ThunderDrums,
or something like that. I gather it's well known in the western part of the
US. She's a sweet girl, and a great dancer, both middle eastern and European
court/country styles. It's just this down-cast face and "extinguishing of
the glow" thing that goes on everytime food is served. So far, I've not seen
her bring anything for herself, but that may be an arrangement between her
and her husband - he runs frequent trips to the store to get supplies. I do
think that part of it may just be youth and a certain amount of
situational-blindness on her part. But in a professed long-time SCAdian, I
have to wonder. And after the Head Cook repeatedly requested that anyone
with allergies contact her before the event - to show up on the day and
pitch a scene so perfect for garnering pity made me wonder about her
motives. (The Autocrat donated funds to purchase extra food for the girl,
the husband made a trip to the store for the items - and the Khan of the
Great Dark Horde worked magic in the kitchen to prepare a quick one-person
meal with the extra spices and food bits in order to free up the kitchen
staff, who were madly in the "last 15-minutes" stage of food prep. It all
worked out...)

Rosine