[Artemisia] Thank You Niccolo and Events

[Jerry Shaeffer]

Niccolo,
 
Aren't you just the sweetest and nicest boy!  Seriously here.  
 
Arn Hold has had several of the: Barony provides meat, you bring a side and $3.00 to help pay for meat.  We borrowed/begged group for crock pots, bought a bunch of cheap roasts, threw in some Guiness, and herbs, plugged them in first thing in morning.  THEN WE WENT AWAY FROM THE KITCHEN!  Put out a bunch of games and printed rules spread out among the tables in the main hall for day, including some not period, but fun i.e. Pente, etc.
 
A half hour before feast was to begin, we had herald make announcement to have people get their food out of fridges, or whatever and put them out on the buffet table.  Had older members, guests, and those with kids go first, then everyone else.  Had an informal sit whereever you want, people screaming out for different people to sing, had a bad (but clean) joke contest, gaming, etc.  Clean up was a snap.  We threw the crock pots in truck to be taken home and cleaned up, unless owners wanted them and then everyone was responsible for taking their own dishes home.  Had site cleaned up in less than an hour and everyone got a taste of something.  Can't begin to tell you how many recipes were "swapped" that day.
 
Easiest feast and event Baroness Rachel and myself ever ran.
 
Baron Tor Von Butterberg, OP
Baron of Arn Hold

Bruce Padget <bapadget at yahoo.com> wrote:
 Best feast I've ever been to in terms of ambience was in Arn Hold,
where folks had access to a kitchen for warming, but
brought their own food. There was no formal
"competition," but we didn't need no steenking
competition to spend the evening amiably one-upping
each other. Martha Stewart would have been a piker
there. And nobody had to plan, cook, or clean up for
more than a dozen people. I like good period food as
much as the next three guys. (This may explain why I
take up the space of the next three guys. :D) But
feasting isn't what you eat -- it's where, how, and
with whom you eat.

Regards,
Niccolo
Abbastanza Buon Non E Abbastanza Buono
bapadget at yahoo.com
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