[Sca-cooks] Re: Feasts

[Elise Fleming]

Greetings.  Siggy put forth his case for feast first and then court.
The "ideal order" may well depend on who the Crown is.  Both
Valharic and I dealt in food of one sort or another.  He was
mundanely a chef and I'm a kitchen scullion.  We disliked having
feast start late, but we also have been the victims of the
"never-ending feast" that takes three to four hours to serve.
Having court start after one of these marathon meals would be
disastrous.

 In the Midrealm, many folk seem to be leaving site and not eating
feast, regardless of when feast is served.  If feast is first,  they
don't get back on time (or ever) for court and aren't there to
receive awards.  So, our policy was court first and then feast.
Admittedly, we ran fast courts.  We did one 60+ award court with two
peerages in less than two hours.  (I think it was a little more than
1.5 hours.)

The way I see it, in the Midrealm, having court first lets folk who
don't eat feast be able to join in the fun and celebration of court,
then go out and have a leisurely meal.  It's a "bummer", however, if
there is Royalty who take forever to do their awards and who don't
respect the fact that cooked food can't sit around waiting for them
to get done with court.

Alys Katharine