[Sca-cooks] odd feast I went to

[Mairi Ceilidh]

Did you get a bed with this feast?  Sounds like my Gran'ma's boarding house.
Now, I know how she got that much food on the table, 'cause she had a
honking huge table, but how did y'all make everything fit?  

Most sites we use have those wonderful 6-8 ft. folding tables.  Once you get
eight people, and all their accoutrement at each table, there's not enough
room for five platters.  

I appreciate the fact that the cook and his staff might have wished to sit
and enjoy feast, but it is not the best plan, in my opinion, unless you are
doing a buffet ::shudders::.  It sounds like a wonderful feast.  It also
sounds as though the service style may have made it a little less "special"
for some. Pity.

Mairi Ceilidh, who does not want to eat what she has spent weeks preparing




I recently (last weekend) went to an event called Night on the Town.  The 
feast staff was headed up by a fellow named Sir Xenophon Vaughn who I 
understand wanted to do certain things on the menu way out of range of the 
budget so he footed the remainder of the bill himself.  Very interesting 
though.  One person from each table was called up to serve the table.  Then 
Sir Xenophon came out and addressed the assembled crowd and announced that 
there were five courses and all would come out at the same time because the 
kitchen staff also wanted to sit down to eat.  All the serving trays were 
the decorative but disposable round metal type trays.  It began with a bowl 
of bread slices of different hearty breads (no butter at least at our table)

the first meat one coming had roast beef surrounded by medallions of beets 
and turnips roasted.  The second was chicken served on top of asparagus, the

third was lamb roast on top of peas (I may have the chicken and lamb mixed 
up in order and which veggies), the fourth was a pork rib roast on top of 
pickled red cabbage.  None came out sliced or with serving utensils.  
Although I like everything that was on the menu, I, for one, did not like 
the idea of all this stuff on the table (under ceiling fans) at the same 
time.  What are your thoughts on this type of serving?

Cariad a heddwch (love and peace)

Dame Olwen the Odd
Laurel to Lady Katherine O'Carroll
Order of the Pearl
Bright Hills Cooks Guild
House Blackstar
Barony of Bright Hills
Kingdom of Atlantia!

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