[Sca-cooks] Volunteering in a feast kitchen

[Elaine Koogler]

I think what you're saying is perfectly reasonable.  We had a young lady
move into our group...it was also a shire at the time.  However, we've been
blessed with several very good cooks who have usually done documentably
period feasts.  This young lady volunteered to cook what started out as a
small local event, but turned into a Crown Tourney.  She said she had head
cooked a number of feasts in another Kingdom, so this wouldn't be a
problem.  She then started planning the feast, and talked with me about her
plans...these included a dish made with blue corn tortillas, several dishes
with tomatoes, a potato dish...in other words, WAY out of period.  Nothing
she had planned was a period dish.  When I pointed this out to her, she
agreed to modify her ideas.  Her final result was a group of dishes that
used all period ingredients but were not period recipes.  On top of this
many of them, such as snow peas stuffed with a cream cheese mixture, were
VERY labor intensive.  Halfway through cooking the feast, she went "postal"
and walked out of the kitchen, leaving others at the event to finish the
feast.  So yeah....I always want to see what folks can do before I turn them
loose in my kitchen!

Kiri

On 4/5/07, Aldyth at aol.com <Aldyth at aol.com> wrote:
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> In a message dated 4/3/2007 9:04:50 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
> vitaliano at shanelambert.com writes:
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> didn't  really get bent out of shape, I just left the kitchen and
> enjoyed other  activities. I mentioned it to my wife and to one other
> member of our  shire, but that's about as far as it will go, other than
> this email  thread, which I started to hear other people's thoughts on
> this  subject.
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> Tell us a story Auntie Aldyth.  :-))   Being the seneschal  of a small
> group
> has its' challenges. Over the years our group has graduated a  few
> competent
> cooks and feast organizers.  A young lady and her lord moved  her and for
> the
> most part the young lady was not appearing unless it was with  him.  When
> we
> were planning our fall event last year I asked for volunteers  for
> autocrat and
> feastocrat.  She volunteered to feastocrat. The autocrat  was not sure of
> her
> "prowess" so he asked that she share the duty with an  established cook.
> She
> exploded. How dare we expect that she had even helped in  another kitchen,
> or
> that we check her out of kingdom  references.   Perhaps the small shire
> you
> were helping with has had similar challenges and  just preferred to work
> with
> known quantities, and no people skills.  You  are welcome in my
> kitchen.  But
> don't be surprised if somebody is watching.  :-))
>
> Aldyth
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> If it is not  any fun, stop doing it. Find something that is fun, and
> start
> doing it. Life is  too short not to have fun.
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