[Sca-cooks] Feast Ambience

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

Hmmmm. Decorative banners. Nifty fabric hung to hide mundanities. Candles,
if they're allowed (not all sites around here allow even enclosed flames,
let alone candles). Our Barony has some really nifty pedestal
candleholders that we draped with grape vines for the Italian-themed 25th
anniversary event. Tabards for the servers. Dimming the lights, if
possible. Musicians (the current reign frowns on anything else during a
feast, as usually nobody can see or hear what's going on). No juggling,
not after a 12th Night where somebody engaged jugglers with flaming
torches without clearing it with anybody first. One of the jugglers
dropped a torch, and it almost set my husband on fire. All of our events
have themes, so the feast usually follows the event theme.

Also, lately there have been contests at events for the best table setup.
That seems to encourage people towards spiffy period tableware, although I
have yet to find anyone else who uses an aquamanile and has everyone wash
their hands before the meal.

Margaret


On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Patricia Collum wrote:

> After being on this list the last month or so, my eyes have been opened.
> There just is not that much period cooking going on here in Atenveldt yet.
> Most of the feasts I have attended have avoided obvious non-period food
> items, but only a few have had lists of sources for the items cooked or some
> other evidence that period recipes were used. We have some great cooks here
> and some people who have moved here from other kingdoms (Gunter, etc.) who
> will hopefully change some of that.
>
> In the meanwhile I was wondering if you do special things to help with the
> ambience of your feasts- to go along with the wonderful food and subtleties?
>
> Lady Cecily
> Barony of Sundragon
> Atenveldt