[Sca-cooks] kitchen tips

[Elaine Koogler]

Yes, I fear I was misunderstood.  I was trying to indicate that it was the
outgoing King rather than the incoming one.  My apologies.  Ours works this
same way...

So far as feast costs are concerned, in our Barony only the Autocrat and
Head Cook pay no event costs.  Everyone else pays for both feast and site
costs.  I usually try to make sure that my staff have time to go out, sit
down and eat the feast after we've gotten the course served.  Often, my
staff won't pay for the feast, and therefore stay in the kitchen.  They do,
however, partake of leftovers...

Kiri

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Pixel, Goddess and Queen <
pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com> wrote:

>
> In Northshield, the new sovereigns are crowned in morning court, and the
> county/duchy thing is done in evening court, leaving the outgoing couple the
> day to lounge around being nobody (the words I've heard said outgoing
> couples use).
>
> As for paying, usually everybody pays site fee unless the royals are
> comped. Serving feast, OTOH, is a time-honored method for poor college
> students to eat feast for free, and it's considered both greedy and
> insulting to require servers to pay for feast. Then there was the event
> steward who didn't want a server's feast, she wanted the servers to beg
> their tables for leftovers. That went over *really* well.
>
> Usually the server's feast and food for the kitchen help is figured into
> the feast budget, so a feast for 150 will probably end up serving more like
> 200, when you factor everybody else in. Extra treats for the kitchen help
> are entirely up to the head cook.
>
> YIS,
>
> Margaret FitzWilliam
>
>