[Sca-cooks] regional variation (was Re: Feast stewart at the crossroads)

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Brandu wrote:

> As a feast Dook

Hehehe, I like that title.  Are you a Duke, or just the multiple-time King of
Feasting?

> I tend to avoid "box" lunches like the plague. People dont
> eat what they dont want, and so you have to over pack the dang things, and
> half of it gets tossed in the can. A dayboard is probably the most
> exconomical way to go. If you have disposal/portability issues put paper
> plates or the boxes at the end of the table and just have em make their
> own.

I'm not crazy about the idea either.
Fortunately, someone else is making the lunch
and she can probably be convinced to do it as
a dayboard.  I only mentioned it because the
budget cited was $1500 which included
both the lunch and dinner.

> Just my thoughts, though.
>
> And Selene, you _can_ tell the autocrat that you are deeply offended that
> the kitchen budget was decided without your input and then alter halves
> without prior discussion or even notification, which was extremely RUDE of
> them to do.
> You can tell them that no competent chef would stand up to having
> management set his menu and budget without their input, and that you dont
> have to do this, this is your hobby, not your job, and if they dont like it
> they can just try to find a cook would sit for being taken for granted like
> that.
> You dont have to be taken advantage of, or treated like you are not a
> critical part of the process.
> Tell them that if they dont want to consider the cook's input they can just
> give everybody 10 dollar gift vouchers to MacDonalds.
> Or they can deal with you like the competent chef du cuisine and VOLUNTEER
> that you are.
>
> Don't stand for this.

Oh, I'm not.  I just sent off a very firm note to Madame Autocrat and explained
it all to her.  I even used my title and all the alphabet soup, which I really
do NOT do unless I have a very good reason to throw my weight around.  I have
been assured by other baronial officers that things will change for the better,
I was just very shocked and appalled when her letter first showed up.

Thanks for all your support,
Selene Colfox