[Sca-cooks] Feast Procedural Question

[palmoret at juno.com]

---------- Jim Fox-Davis <firedrake at earthlink.net> writes:

Usually I keep in the background and just lurk, but this is too funny.  They must be joking it takes me days to cost out a feast and depending on the needs of the autocrat it could take more than a month to plan the menu.  i could not imagine trying to cost out three feasts at a time.  I figure if the baron wants veto it would just be better for him to plan the menu and the cost and i will help him cook it.  sorry this is a new one on me.  it is a matter of what foods are readily available and the prices of things as to what is served at most feasts.  maybe you need to educate them on the time it takes to research, plan and cost out a feast.  they might not realize just what they are asking.

Hi, gang, I have an odd question for you who've also done a lot of
feasts (or even one) in the SCA.  I've been doing them for 26 years, and
for the first time, I've been asked to prepare three menus at different
price points (costs of $8, $10, and $12 a person for food and prep
costs), for the "Committee" to then tell me how much I have to spend.
 Every other time I've done a feast, they've told me what my budget was,
and I went from there.

In addition, my Baron wants veto power over the menu.  The last several
times we've done feasts, we've hardly even told them in advance what
they're getting, and they've always been happy.  We always have
 alternate dishes prepared for those with allergies and those who's
dietary restrictions are unusual (Vegetarians, low sodium, etc.  Has
anyone else been seeing this sort of response?

Jared Blaydeaux
Altavia, Caid

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