[Sca-cooks] odd feast I went to
Vitaliano Vincenzi
vitaliano at shanelambert.com
Thu Apr 19 12:31:53 PDT 2007
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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