[Sca-cooks] cheese for feast

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> Here is a newbie type question.  If you are doing a feast for 85 people that
> will have three courses and you have cheese offered as part of the first
> course along with leek soup and homemade bread, how much cheese would you
> buy?  (It will be cubed by the way.)

Oops. Too late, of course, but here's my 2 cents:

I would alot about 1/2 lb per table. In tables of 8, that's 2.5-3 lbs; 
in tables of 10, that's about 2 lbs. More than that will look pretty but 
won't get eaten, in my experience; and cheese is very filling.

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