[Sca-cooks] Convivencia feast postmortem (LONG!!!)

[david friedman]

Congratulations! Sounds like quite an effort for your first feast. A 
couple of suggestions (which you probably realize by now, but I'll 
make for others in that position):

Bring lots of thermometers, both oven thermometers and meat 
thermometers. Use the oven thermometers before you have to start 
using the oven. I disovered this at a feast where one of the ovens 
turned out to be either on full blast or off--no intermediate 
options. The bread would have come out looking prettier if I had 
realized this earlier.

My system for receipts, designed to make it very hard to lose them: 
have an envelope magnetted to the refrigerator, into which receipts 
are put; if necessary make notes on the receipt about what it was for 
before you put it in. As each goes in, put the total from that 
receipt on a list on the outside of the envelope. At the end, add up 
that column. The envelope never leaves that spot until I am handing 
over my final accounts for the event.

Elizabeth/Betty Cook