[Sca-cooks] Re: MetalSmiths Symposium -

[Sudden Service #5]

 Hej!
    As I crawl out from under the press of outrageous mundane life, I would
like to also include my own comments on the fine job that was done by both
Phlip & Vincenzo!
    Vincenzo really did a great job on getting the feast done.  He had
limited facilities & time available to do the feast with & came out on top!
I really enjoyed the Chicken Verjuice (a new taste experience) & the
Zabaglione was even better the next day (it was a substantial portion of my
breakfast & contributed greatly to keeping the Autocrat mellow the third day
of the event)!  If he ever needs any help in the kitchen at an event I am
his to command.
    I didn't have to worry about how things were going down in the
Blacksmith's Grove, because Phlip was in control of it all there, I only
passed through because I wanted to see what everyone else was doing.  We
even managed to keep the site manager happy after the event was over he came
up & told me we could use the site for the same type of event any time I
wanted to run it (unfortunately the Canton has decided to pass on doing it
again next year-maybe the year after & some of the other nearby groups have
had rumblings of doing more metalsmithing classes).
    Any problems with the event were likely my fault.  I severely overloaded
myself (Autocrat, cook 1 meal & teaching 2 classes, while working a 40 hour
work week & attending classes 16 + hours/week) & my Staff, especially my
Cooks, Reservation's Clerk & Web Mistress.
YIS,
Olaf of Trollhiemsfjord
who is only scheduled to cook a feast for a Shakespeare Play (based on
Eating Shakespeare & Dinning with William Shakespeare-any suggestions)  &
run the Viking Embassy at the Cross Roads Faire event in Carolingia next
year.

----- Original Message ----- >
> Brekke asked:
>
> >      From the sound of it, you didn't really have much time to prepare
for
> this.  From Barleycorn to Metalsmith's?  Or was it Barleycorn to
> Metalsmith's a year later?
>
> No, unfortunately, it was from this year's Barleycorn. Olaf and I were
> tearing our hair out, trying to come up with a Feast cook. Olaf had posted
> on Cook's List and EK List, and I ran into Vincenzo at Barleycorn and
> discussed it with him.
>
> The funny thing is, both Olaf and I are Cooks as well, but neither of us
> could do feast- he was Autocrat, and I was smithing coordinator, CiC, and
> teaching an all-day class. Furthermore, two of the teaching smiths were
from
> Ohio, and two were brand new to SCA, so I really HAD to spend time with
> them. As it was, Olaf and I did a breakfast apiece- we were a bit busy ;-)
>
> Vincenzo stepped in and did a wonderful job, under the circumstances- I
> honestly don't know how to thank him.
>
> There were two things about this event which really stood out in my mind,
as
> Good Things Happening. One was encouraging Vincenzo to do Feast, and
> watching him do it so well, and encouraging Aaron Silver, a young man who
> had never been to an SCA event before, or taught smithing before, to
teach,
> and watching him do so well.
>
> It was truly a wonderful event guys, the best I've ever been to, including
> the great Barleycorn event I'd gone to a couple of weeks before. I'm
having
> a GOOD time over here in the EK ;-)
>
> Phlip