[Sca-cooks] What would you do?

[Patricia Collum]

Recently a simple feast was planned for an event. The feast was to include
bread butters and fruits, salad and two veggie dishes, one casserole type
meat dish, another meat dish and a very simple dessert. The menu was printed
and pre-paid feast reservations were made. For some reason the cook was not
given any money to shop with until the the day before the feast (and did not
have the money to pay for the food themselves and wait for reimbursement.)
My question is, what would you do if you found yourself in this
circumstance? (It's like one of those impossible situations from combat
pilot training.)

Cecily