[Sca-cooks] Harvest Day / TOC feast...and then some

[Elaine Koogler]

Wow!!  Congratulations and welcome to the flock!  Oddly enough I thought you
already had a Pel!  This is so well-deserved!

Kiri

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Ginny Beatty <ginbeatty at gmail.com> wrote:

> So Friday, I get on site to the camp to prep for the event. The van is
> heavily laden with the ingredients, equipment, etc. I pick up Alexis
> (my 2nd in command for the feast) in Dayton and head north.
> The van is unloaded, perishables are stored, and Alexis, Katarina,
> Akira and I get to scouring the kitchen. It was grimy, so we sanitized
> every surface and washed every piece of equipment we were using. Thank
> Heaven for a Hobart dish tank. (point of Trivia, the Hobart and
> Kitchen aid factories are not far from the site ;)).
> After about 4 hours of serious sanitation engineering, we took a
> dinner break and went to supper at Buffalo Jack's - a local
> establishment that serves wild game. mmm
> We get back from dinner and begin the Friday night tasks. I put the
> task chart on giant poster sized Post-it Notes and pasted them to the
> refrigerators. Volunteers come in to play (as they are wont to do) to
> make salad of cold hen, roll out pie crust, shred and chop carrots.
> Off to Bed about midnight.
>
> I get up bright and early, get in my kitchen togs (linen shift, clogs,
> bandanna, chef pants, Ohio State apron) because I want to get my head
> together for the day's tasks. So, I make the coffee and meditate in
> the kitchen to get in the Zone. My crew rolls in about 930 or so to
> get started on the veggie prep. I review the task charts with the crew
> (Team Anubis) so we're literally *on* the same page.
>
> Well...I'm so very glad I had the feast plan documented down to the
> task level and the each recipe on its own sheet (standard ops for me).
> Because there was this Morning Court...Giles fitz Alan is placed on
> laurel vigil (as Helewyse previously mentioned), we Laurels go up, and
> he's whisked off to his vigil tent.  I head to the back of court with
> the crew. Some are getting a bit antsy, because we have Work to Do.
> Then, the Pelicans are called up to swear fealty. Alexis MacAlister
> (who was my Laurel and also a Pelican), sticks around after they're
> dismissed. She addresses the populace:
> "Today, I want to speak of butterflies..."
> Now, my coat of arms have butterflies on them, so from this moment on
> I am officially Gobsmacked. My apprentice Malachai literally has my
> back now, because my knees just turned to Jello. Aasa, my other
> cooking partner in crime, is right next to him. Baron Durr escorts me
> up to the dais where TRM Eikbrandr and  Runa place me on vigil for the
> Pelican.
>
> I am whisked away to my vigil and am banned from the Kitchen. This was
> probably the *only* thing that was going to keep me out of my own
> kitchen. Fortunately, I brought other clothes for the day packed
> anyway (which I was going to wear after feast), and Alexis managed to
> kidnap a dress that she borrowed from me for Pennsic, so I had spiff
> Evening Wear too.
> I passed the Ohio State apron to Malachai and the Anubis pendant to
> Aasa. They were now In Charge.
> I was distressed that my senior apprentice Baroness Artemisia Grimaldi
> wasn't there, as she was in Meridies helping out with a feast there
> (Crimson River's Black Rose), but someone reassured me that she was
> told and I called her.
>
> My mother was also notified of this occasion, so she drove up from
> Cincinnati to be there for the ceremony. She helped me with my first
> feast about 26 years ago and I was proud to introduce her to the
> Populace at the feast.
>
> My vigil reception was right outside the kitchen in a nice day shade
> near the lake. It seemed... fitting.
> I sat vigil during the day, and Mal, Francesca, and Aasa occasionally
> popped in asked me questions (and tell me the score of the Ohio
> State/Navy game). They and the rest of the team did me very proud. Let
> me tell you, it's very surreal seeing someone else execute your
> vision. But they did it perfectly.
>
> The Worthies who spoke for me at  Court were Duke Edmund of Hertford,
> Ser Nickolas Gregorovich Petrov, Mistress Iasmin de Cordoba, and Sir
> Robert of Griffonholme.
>
>  I love my friends.
> Gwyneth Banfhidhleir, OL and now OP
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