[Sca-cooks] Sign of the Times perhaps --Dinner at Crown - cancelled

[Lilinah]

I have to say that even if it wasn't SCA, i wouldn't pay 25 
smackeronis for that meal. Sheesh, i can get a fabulous gourmet meal 
for that amount here in the SF Bay area.

As for having the food cooked by non-SCAdians: When events are held 
in hotels, if we want to hold a feast, we are compelled to have the 
hotel kitchen cook the food. This hasn't happened here in The West, 
as far as i know - we don't serve food at our only hotel event, 
Twelfth Night, it BYO.

But i did attend a weekend-long SCA costume symposium some years back 
in a hotel in Denver. The staff at least tried to use some Medieval 
recipes. However they couldn't help but arrange and decorated the 
plates in a very modern way - it was, after all, how they'd been 
trained. And the food was... ok... but lacked a little something.

Here in the central West, the cost of events has been going up 
because the price of the halls and sites. Also, for our camping 
events we have to rent a certain number of porta-potties and a 
dumpster, so there are many items that can get more expensive.

And because some events are money losers, other events have to make a 
little to cover them.

Camping events are now around $10 for adult SCA members for a weekend.
Site fee for a one-day indoor event can be cheaper.

The price for a feast can vary, but $15 is getting to be the norm 
(that is separate from the site fee). However, our feasts, in my 
experience, are usually bounteous and delicious. Two dishes plus rice 
at a Thai restaurant can cost $15, so to me $15 is not a bad price 
for a three course Medieval feast with 4 to 6 dishes per course.
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