The Long Lunch!

Hello again, cats and kittens!

And chaps and chapesses, who can probably understand more of this than the felines.

Hopefully.

So, I got an adaptor for my camera and was all glad I could finally post pictures! And then I turned my camera on and saw that there were no exciting pictures to post. I have one picture of the villa but it is obscured by a tree and all of the other new pictures are of scenery.

So, let's talk about that long lunch, featured on that previous post where the picture was cut in half. Thanks, blogspot.

We got there around 10:45/11 and were split into our groups (I'm in group B!). We were essentially around to help with the plating of the food - much like my work at the Old Church, most of the food was mostly prepared beforehand and just finished off right before service since it was on such a large scale.

So we got to put out meals for 400ish people! Or I'm assuming it was that many, splitting the number of attendees in half because there were two kitchens (group A was in the other one). Our kitchen was actually in a tent outside, where there was some drizzling going on. Not in the tent, of course, that's why the tent was there! It was a bit rainy though, hence the moving of the venue from near the water to a stadium in town.

I did a lot of bread slicing at first, then putting the bread on the appropriate plates, and from that point on I was really the garnish guy. In the bad picture in the last post, he caught me trying to put a piece of mint between a spiced plum and a tiny tower of sorbet.

Mint leaves are hard to place!

I also got to put rosemary sprigs on the main course.

The job sounds very simple, and, well, it is, but when you have to do it 400 times in a matter of minutes it gets a bit more problematic!

Either way, after the service we got to go out into the lunch area. Apparently we did a good enough job, because everyone was clapping and thanking us! We had some more pictures taken, then we got to eat some of the extra food, we helped pack up, and we were done!

Speaking of done, it's 8:55 PM! The library is closing!

More tomorrow!