[Sca-cooks] A very impressive feast

[David Friedman]

Yesterday Elizabeth and I attended a West Kingdom Collegium which 
ended with a small feast--about 44 guests. The food, so far as I 
could tell, was all from 14th-15th c. English cookbooks, and 
competently done, which was nice.

But what was really impressive was the organization of the feast. The 
people responsible had done a lot of research on serving, behavior 
expected of guests, and the like. They trained their 
servers--including all categories from feast marshall down I think it 
came to about fifteen or twenty people--in advance, and they provided 
a handout and a verbal explanation to the guests in advance. They had 
built suitable benches for the guests, provided period spoons, used 
period knives (used by the servers, not the guests), had all servers 
in garb of the proper period, and managed a good many other things 
right.

For details see:

http://www.caldarium.org/collegium/?q=node/3

Has anyone else done this sort of thing at this level before?
-- 
David/Cariadoc
www.daviddfriedman.com