[Sca-cooks] A high table question

[Johnna Holloway]

Last time I checked this was what I found

The October 2007 Kingdom Exchequer Handbook
http://www.sca.org/docs/finpolicies/KingdomExchequerHandbook.pdf
doesn't really say. I searched under feasts and head table.
Page 39 does have this statement:

2. We may not accept donations of alcohol (CP, VIII).

(I am left wondering if we are getting more stringent on alcohol.)
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The Local Exchequer Handbook April 2006
http://www.sca.org/docs/finpolicies/LocalExchequerHandbook.pdf
states what Gretchen mentions below but more importantly on page 32 it 
states:

" B. Money may not be spent on events closed to the general populace and 
without a specific
administrative agenda (SFP IX.E).
This includes Royalty Dinners, Peer Parties, or similar events. Special 
expensive dishes presented at a feast intended
for the consumption of only a few people is allowed, although strongly 
discouraged."

Did the same search through the Seneschal's Handbook
http://www.sca.org/docs/SocSenHandbook-200510.pdf
and didn't find anything there.

Has it changed since 2007?

Johnnae

On Oct 6, 2013, at 10:55 AM, Laura C. Minnick wrote:

> So, I have a question about feasts and the high table. I seem to remember a discussion about this, some time ago, and I'd like to know if anyone here remembers it and can confirm or correct my memory. Is it indeed _not_ ok to serve the high table more or different food than the rest of the hall, particularly if they have paid the same site/feast fee? I'm not talking about something special brought in as a gift, a donation not in the feast budget- I'm talking a planned two-level fare. I seem to remember that it had something to do with financial policy, but I can't remember what it was.
> 
> And I hate high table with seating on both sides. Makes the handwashing really difficult. :-P
> 
> Liutgard
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