[Sca-cooks] Loooooong night for Head Cook at 12th Night

[Johnna Holloway]

As to a what else or something else, how about
having one of those pregnancies where one can't stand
being around food or certain smells without being sick?
One never knows with a first pregnancy what one will tolerate.
In my case it would have proved impossible as I spent
the last 5 months of my pregnancy confined to bed.
 I wouldn't have been feast cooking in any regard.

Johnnae

David Friedman wrote:

> That would be an interesting organizational challenge. Suppose you 
> discovered that at the (large) event for which you had agreed to cook 
> the feast, you would be either (1) about 9 months pregnant--unable to 
> reach the cutting board or the sink and easily exhausted, or (2) in 
> the maternity hospital, or (3) a brand-new parent--exhausted, 
> sleep-deprived, and with a newborn infant in arms. How would you do 
> your planning?
>
> The obvious things are to have everything--recipes, plans, timing, 
> equpment--written down in great detail, to have a person in charge of 
> each dish who has cooked that dish before, to have a deputy ready to 
> take over at any time, to have a plan in place for getting from the 
> site to the hospital that doesn't involve anyone essential to the 
> kitchen. What else?
>
> Elizabeth/Betty Cook
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