[Sca-cooks]Feasts Per Year

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

I live in the Shire of Silver Rylle in the East Kingdom, mundanely located  
in south-central Pennsylvania (specifically Lancaster and Lebanon  Counties).  
We share a small strip of border with the Kingdom of  Atlantia.  We are a very 
small shire; our active membership is rarely more  than about 15 people.  
We're very heavily A&S oriented, and amongst  those 15 people are at least 4 who 
could manage to put on a feast in some way,  shape, or form.  Most recently 
it's usually been me or one other woman  doing them, but my husband can deal 
with all the kitchen issues if someone does  the research and gives him the 
recipes (he's dyslexic, so the research is a real  struggle for him), and there's 
another gentleman with mundane restaurant  management experience that I firmly 
believe could handle one, although he's  never tried.  We've also got one or 
two who are more comfortable doing  dayboards than feasts.
We usually run two events per year, and usually both have at least one  
breakfast if it's a weekend event, and a dayboard and feast.  On occasion  we have 
run three events in a year under the same sort of concepts, but that  gets 
tough towards burning out our people.  Recently we've started doing a  lot of 
combined events with other nearby groups to share resources and get extra  help, 
which has worked well.  
Our closest upcoming event, Fields of Gold in a few weeks, is odd in that  it 
is sort of like the Golden Seamstress thing - we're doing the "work overnight 
 from Friday night to Saturday late afternoon" thing for making a complete  
outfit, and there's a similar competition on Saturday only for scribes to  
produce a scroll blank.  There is no access to a kitchen at the site, but  we are 
doing an overnight "coffee cart" of donated stuff, and there will also be  a 
dayboard of the "cold foods and few crockpots" type, but no feast.  I'm  not 
really involved in it since my baby is due two weeks before the event,  although 
since I'm now off work I'm considering making up a few cold meat pies  and 
freezing them or something.
 
As Christopher said, here in the southern region of the East, one can  pretty 
much count on anywhere from two-6 events within driving distance on any  
given weekend, and most of them will have feasts - and most of those feasts are  
at least nominally period.  We're really spoiled :-)
 
Brangwayna