[Sca-cooks] 12th Night

[Micheal]

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Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 10:58 AM
Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] 12th Night


> This is the only way we've ever done our 12th Night.  We do look for a 
> hall
> big enough for everyone to dine together.  We also generally prepare the
> main meat, and everything else is brought in.  We make suggestions about
> groups that should bring certain dishes, sometimes going with "if the last
> letter of your name begins with A-C, bring appetizers, D-G, bring salads,
> etc.  A couple of years ago I suggested an alternate system, using
> personnas - if you have a Brittish personna bring a vegetable side dish,
> middle eastern personnas bring desserts, etc.  We set it up on at least 
> two
> buffet tables, however we don't have nearly the numbers it sounds like you
> get for the Atlantian 12th Night, we do our local Baronial 12th Night that
> gets a couple of hundred people.  Still, it is workable, and if you put
> Court after Feast, people will stick around or come back.
> Christianna
>
 Do I detect another Ruantallan cook here in?
 Da