[Steppes] Feast vs. Catering

[shark]

My worry is that this year we may not have many options. We will need to find a site fairly quickly I think, as many will be setting up weddings or banquets for that weekend. So we may need 2 discussions, one - what CAN we do this year, and the other, what is ideal. If this is going to be a regional event, then we should try and have our entire region help scour the countryside for the perfect venue. I prefer period feast when I can get it. But I think our price requirements, wet site requirements, feast requirements and hall size are going to be very hard to meet. We will have to compromise something somewhere I'm afraid - unless we can find the right site. Perhaps just finding a place that would give us the hall w/ BYOB and let us bring food in would work. 
I'm with Gunter, I have cooked for 300 people on camp stoves and done it in a sanitary way and every thing was hot and really good. So if we could find a place where we could set up in the parking lot and pre-prep as much as possible, I think it would work. And yes, because I love 12th night, if you find a site like that I will offer my services at home or in a parking lot tent for prep. I can even chop veggies in the hotel room if I need to, It might drive the menu to simple period fare a bit, but I'm ok with that too! We can always get "fancy" on the period make-ahead desserts, if there is such a thing,

I would be sorry to deny our local feastophiles a venue for their art and interests, just like I'm sorry that there are so many restrictions on the archery community at events due to their specific needs and requirements for sites.... I feel like I'm a browncoat and the alliance is moving into my territory here...Vivat SCA!

Just my rambles here,
Susanna of C

----- Original Message ----
From: Catalina Elvira Osorio de Moscoso y Lopez de Xerez <ladycatalina at hotmail.com>
To: steppes at lists.ansteorra.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 9:52:55 AM
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

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