[Sca-cooks] Feast Procedural Question

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> Does your local tend to have lots of people jumping at the bit to be cooks?
> How nice for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately, no. Which is why the autocrat often ends up over a barrel,
unless they are willing to be a total bitch. Unfortunately, there are
always people in the local group who think they can do a better job than
the cook and the autocrat combined, and are willing to be bitches about
it.

> Guess what-if I prepare a feast bid..I decide what I'm cooking and how much it
> will cost-knowing about what the barony prefers and taking that into
> consideration, of course! I don't HAVE to cook the feasts......It's my kitchen
> or it isn't..it's that easy!   Enough said.

I'm sure.  That's the beauty of the bid process. You submit a bid, the
autocrat looks at it, says, "That looks fine to me" and you're off. If
they don't like it, you don't cook for them.

However, in my local group because there are so few people willing to cook
feasts, it's become customary to line up a feast cook without getting a
bid or menu. At least one feast cook thought it was 'beneath her dignity'
to submit a bid or even a menu, when she volunteered.  (When I cooked for
her, she requested and recieved changes to my menu, even though I thought
they were foolish. So, obviously it's a one way street in that case.)

And the idea that obviously the only people who need to come up with a
menu ahead of time are the inexperienced or incompetent fosters that kind
of attitude.

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
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