[Sca-cooks] Loooooong night for Head Cook at 12th Night: RE: Weare happy...

[Olwen the Odd]

>In a message dated 1/10/2005 5:25:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>gordonse at one.net writes:
>
><<And for those of you who didn't know - Lady Grace was head cook  for
> > Twelfth Night!  She led the charge in the kitchen and then had  a baby.
> > What a night!>>
>
>God bless her!  I could hardly manage being a co head cook for  
>Metalsmith's
>Symposium at 7 months pregnant, and that was a relatively small  event, 
>with a
>full kitchen, and the feast served buffet style.
>Now, at 12 days before my due date, it's all I can do to cook dinner for
>myself!
>
>Brangwayna
>

Grace had lots of good help and lots of "Grace! Go sit down!!"  Bless her 
heart, she kept getting up to make sure everyone working was comfortable 
doing what they were tasked to do, and happy doing it.  That seems to be 
always a way she has of going about things.

It was a well organized kitchen affair that, I hear, was spoken of on this 
list while I was off it.  Since it was a caterer's hall, cooking had to be 
done outside, but the day was not unfair, although a bit windy at times.  
There were different stations in the long prep hall and everyone seemed very 
comfortable and happy with their assigned or volunteered for tasks.  As in 
many feasts, some items were prepared in advance and portioning and plating 
were the task at hand that was done in one area, for the most part.

Servers were well lined up in advance and very friendly and gracious.  As I 
went in to collect the last bits of my things, Grace was all smiles and 
clean-up was well underway.

Then she went and had her daughter!

Olwen