[Sca-cooks] odd feast I went to

[Elaine Koogler]

I was at the same feast...and viewed the way it was served with mixed
emotioins.  On the one hand, Sir Xenophon is such a fabulous cook that, had
the courses come out the way they usually do, I might have "pigged out" on
the first, and been too full to taste the lamb and pork which came out
last.  But it was somewhat intimidating to have that much food on the table
all at one time.  So I dunno....not having it sliced or with serving
utensils is frequently done in Atlantia, so that didn't really bother me...I
prefer to supply utensils and serve the meat sliced, with the possible
exception of High Table.  But I know that many, if not most cooks here do
not do this.

Kiri

On 4/19/07, Olwen the Odd <olwentheodd at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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