[Sca-cooks] Question about illusion food, menus, ingredient lists and surprises...

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

Our local culinary guild did something very similar to this just a week
ago.

They told people generally what the menu would be ahead of time (a meat
stew, salad, tarts, etc). people with food allergies could contact the
head cook and find out ahead of time what not to eat. They just didn't
say ahead of time what things would look like for the general public :).
They also announced at the start of the dinner that nothing would be
what it looked like, but everything was tasty and if you had any
questions ask your servers (who were told ahead of time)

I missed it alas, but am told it went really really well :). Pictures
were taken...hopwefully some other guild member who's on this has the
link?

--AM

-----Original Message-----
From: sca-cooks-bounces+dailleurs=liripipe.com at ansteorra.org
[mailto:sca-cooks-bounces+dailleurs=liripipe.com at ansteorra.org] On
Behalf Of Sandra Kisner
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 11:14 AM
To: Cooks within the SCA
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Question about illusion food, menus,ingredient
lists and surprises...


>Basically, I'm planning a "bait and switch."
>
>This is what I want to do:
>"pears in wine sauce"= meatballs shaped like pears served in galentyne
(or
>other red wine colored sauce)
>"hedgehogges"=marzipan hedgehogges
>
>"Walnuts" that are some sort of upsidedown tart baked in walnut shaped
tart
>pans.
>
>So, I pride myself on people having *plenty* of notice about what's in
>things before feast so they can decide whether or not to eat them.
>
>How do I do this so I don't give the surprise away to the general
>population?

If this is only a small part of the feast, they should be able to decide
if 
they want to go on-board from the rest of the menu.  That said, is it 
possible to serve, say, both meatballs that look like pears *and* pears 
that look like meatballs in the same course?  As long as they were told 
before eating to make the switch (a *real* bait and switch!) perhaps
those 
with dietary restrictions would still be ok.

Sandra 

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