[Sca-cooks] peacocks

[Adele de Maisieres]

Quoting Saint Phlip <phlip at 99main.com>:

When I
> helped
> Iasmin with her Coronation Feast over in the MK, everybody below High
> Table
> got veal kebabs, but I made a Crown Roast for the King. It was all out
> of
> the same veal calf, even ;-) And, when the Knight presented the Crown
> Roast,
> I made sure he knew to tell the King that there were deliberately extra
> ribs, so that he could bestow largesse to favored members of the Feast.


Sounds like a jolly good compromise to me.  

I've got a Coronation coming up next year-- I'm thinking that having high 
table's roast meat cut by a gentleman-carver while the rest is sliced in the 
kitchen might be a nice touch.  


Adele d'M
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Quot homines, tot sententiae.