[Sca-cooks] bidding for feasts

[Kathleen A Roberts]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:44:49 -0500
  Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise 
<jenne at fiedlerfamily.net> wrote:

> 
> Well, there's two levels of bidding, generally, for 
>events. First, 
> there's the bid to the local group; then, IFF it's a 
>kingdom-level 
> event, a bid goes to the crown. Obviously, for a kingdom 
>event bid, you 
> want your cook lined up.
> 
> However, for local events, having several people put in 
>a bid to the
> autocrat to run the feast or other meal makes it easier 
>for newer people
> to get a chance to cook an event

quite often, in our area, we will mentor someone who wants 
to do a feast by making them the drop dead assistant to an 
experienced feast coordinator/cook.
sometimes, the mentor will do grunt work in the 
fledgling's kitchen when the fledgling gets their 
opportunity to be in charge.  works well.

i think the standard here is for an autocrat to find a 
feast coordinator they can work with, or vice versa, and 
they submit their bid as a team.

at midwinter, my husband (autocrat) and i mentored a team 
who will be putting in a bid for next year.  al-barran 
(and sanely so) tries to get a flow of mentor/next bidder 
for all large events.  it doesn't guarantee you will get 
the bid, but it adds some chops to the resume to have that 
'second in command' experience.

cailte
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Kathleen Roberts
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