[Steppes] Feast vs. Catering

[Susan McMahill]

There's a difference between camping at a multi-day event when one has health issues that make camping difficult, and serving mundane food surved by mundane folks at a one day inside event. We have gone off site for food at Artisan because it is getting difficult to find places allowing food service, but also Artisan is typically a less fancy event than 12th night and also shorter. There hasn't always been a feast served at Artisan. Sometimes there have been sideboards, but it's usually a short enough day that we don't need dinner before ending the day.
Twelfth night is different. Generally large numbers of people are there from within an hour of gate opening to nearly midnight. That's 12 hours or sometimes more. We have our snack foods or sometimes go off site for lunch, but a feast is virtually necessary at some point. There is also a big difference between leaving site to go eat or grab a quick bite and having a cooking and serving staff that are wearing modern clothes, serving modern food and not having any clue of what we are doing, thinking that we are a bunch of weirdos right in the middle of our event. If given the choice of having to eat off site or having an event catered, I will go off site to preserve the integrity of the event itself as much as possible.
 
Lyneya



> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:48:03 -0500> From: duncan at stormypetrel.org> To: sueorintx at hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [Steppes] Feast vs. Catering> > A lot of people already *do* go offsite for food these days. Obviously > the period experience is not enough of a draw to keep them on site.> > Really, what do people want more? Convenience or experience? How many > less camp now than used to? and how many more opt for hotels?> > I think it used to be a lot more about the period experience, but as we > and the society age it is shifting, for better or worse, toward the > other end of the scale.> > Duncan> (who loves a good period meal as much as the next anachronist, but also > heartily accepted the bbq dinner at Lysts)> > Susan McMahill wrote:> > We already get a lot of complaints about the mundanity of our event sites. Having decidedly un-period food served by people in modern clothing is only going to make the situation worse. I would rather go off site for my food than have it catered and have the atmosphere of the event reduced to a Medieval Times dinner. Also, if they allow only catered food, are we going to be forbidden to bring our personal snack stuff that virtually every group has at their tables all day long? That's no fun, either. Lyneya> > > >> From: ladycatalina at hotmail.com> To: steppes at lists.ansteorra.org> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:52:55 +0200> Subject: [Steppes] Feast vs. Catering> > > I personally do not object to catering.> I will be the first to admit that eating SCA feasts has been educational and > has certainly broadened my cooking repertoire.> > But I have also had three bouts of food poisoning.> > If a site is otherwise wonderful and reasonably priced, it's not a good idea > to cross it off the> list just because they only allow catering.> > > Catalina> Sanguinem dumtaxat causam virtutis pendate> > _________________________________________________________________> Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/> > _______________________________________________> Steppes mailing list> Steppes at lists.ansteorra.org> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/steppes-ansteorra.org> > _______________________________________________> > Steppes mailing list> > Steppes at lists.ansteorra.org> > http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/steppes-ansteorra.org> >