[Sca-cooks] odd feast I went to

[Vitaliano Vincenzi]

Hmm, I certainly wouldn't like having all that food on the table at 
once. I would rather have it brought to me in a timely manner. At least 
that is what I would do for my feast. Never would I have it all come out 
at once. That is just weird.

Olwen the Odd 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?
> 
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> 
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