[Sca-cooks] Feast yesterday....

[Stephen Bloch]

I wrote:
>We were at this event too.  It wasn't the most elaborate feast, but 
>every single dish was both tasty and at least plausibly period. 
>(The menu on the table listed the names of the dishes, and their 
>ingredients, but didn't mention where each recipe came from.  We 
>recognized a few as being from Chiquart or Menagier, and the rest 
>wouldn't have been out of place there.)  Servers kept coming by the 
>table to take away our leftovers from previous courses, and we kept 
>sending them away empty-handed because we thought we MIGHT want 
>seconds (or thirds) of this dish or that.
>
>I tried to get some leftover chicken to take home, but it was gone. 
>I scored some Brussels sprouts and a whole sambocade, though....

One other interesting feature of the event that I forgot to mention: 
dinner was served starting around 4:30 PM.  (We've been discussing 
afternoon feasts on the EK Cooks' list.)  I thought it worked well 
(particularly for those of us who didn't realize there was no lunch 
dayboard, and were pretty hungry by then :-) ) and left time for 
dancing afterwards.  Unfortunately, by the time dinner ended, there 
was a quarter of an inch of snow on the ground, so people started 
panicking and driving home.  By 8 PM the chairs and tables were put 
away and the floors were being swept, which I don't think was the 
original plan....
-- 
                                     John Elys
          (the artist formerly known as mar-Joshua ibn-Eleazar ha-Shalib)
                                 mka Stephen Bloch
                                 sbloch at adelphi.edu