[Sca-cooks] MisRepresenting the Outlands
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Fri Jan 28 10:11:36 PST 2011
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> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:35:59 -0800 (PST)
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> You are also one of the cooks with a reputation for?food?that people will eat.?
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> Look around, now, how many new cooks are there, and who is going to give them a
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> chance to do a feast with out a known cook backing them.? Aldyth is correct in
> the fact we have gotten very insular, there are only a few cooks that anybody
>is
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> willing to take a chance on, and those cooks tend to keep it to what they
>know.?
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> ?When you cook, I know it is going to be German.?
Blanket statements may be misleading . While I am very fond of doing German
feasts because it give me the opportunity to translate and re-create a couple of
new recipes from Rumpolt and put them on the menu, I would deny being a one
trick pony. For instance, the lunch at 12th night 10 was half Japanese in honor
of Furukusu-sensei's elevation, (and the other half was his other persona, but
cant recall the country. Sadly I am not at home, so I dont have my files, but I
know I was asked to do an English (or was it Italian) feast to go with a theme,
and did.
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> Did you notice what happened at 12th night?? As soon as feast was served the
> room cleared out and left maybe 100-120 people.? And after that, everybody
>left,
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> poof, gone.?
<snip>
Sadly I was sick as a dog at 12th night. I was able to be there for about 2
hours before having to take myself and my fever home again, and even those 2
hours are foggy at best.
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> The last 12th night I cooked was for 280 people, not including the freebies and
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> that was small compared to the normal at that time of?300-350.? When I helped
> Hannah plan the food for this one I had to fight to make her?believe that she
> should plan to cook for 120 to 150.? And that included the freebies of the
>Crown
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> and B&B's.?? By December 18th we had?less than?20 reservations to feast, that
>is
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> 3 weeks before the even!? Did we even sell out at the door?? I never heard.?
> When was the last time we had a 12th night feast that sells more than 150-170??
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> 8-10 years??
Yes my point was that the people of the Outlands do not make reservations, even
though they will eat tasty and unusual period food.
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> There is a sense of apathy about feasts.? I have heard rumblings of we should
> just do away with them at events.? I can't imagine doing an all day feast,?as
> there are in other Kingdoms.? We would be laughed out of the planning meeting,
> and loose our asses on the costs, because no-one but a few willing, hardy souls
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> would be willing to pay for it and show up.? Especially if we didn't have
> something like a hard-suit, fighter something running with it.?
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> Come out of the Kitchen Gwen, and look around.? We have a problem and it needs
> to be addressed.?
Thank you for your suggestion Mistress.
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> I like Aldyth's idea of introducing foods at A&S's, and the others here who
>have
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> suggested starting small and having tasteing?tables at events.? That at least
> would be a step to get the attitude of "period" food is bad, out of peoples
> minds.?
I am glad you like the idea of tasting tables. Iif you looked around at the
above mentioned 12th nIght you would have seen that Caerthes Cooks Guild had a
tasting table set up. Even having been sick I recall the table featured Saffron
eggs from Mistress Hauviettes cook book, I know Lord Tahir made a middle eastern
Meatball, I brought a vinegar beef dish from Rumpolt (and I know there was much
more, but having been sick I have little memory of the event and less of the
table, and I dont think anyone took a picture.) We we provided a handout with
the recipes, so that if folks nibbled and liked what they tasted they could take
the information home with them I know at least one person appreciated that
handout and thanked me for it (and yes I do remember that much.)
In Service
Catrin von Berlin
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> Mirianna
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