Camps that cook?

[Alchemy]

The Black Rock City Post Office is renoun and actually evolved from being a soup gifting camp. We have expanded to hosting suppers and late night refueling epicurios happenings every other day for those whom put in their time helping out with the mail deliverey and the filing of citizenship papers for the community.
No meals durring labor strikes or if I dont feel like feeding no one. Then youll just haft ta suffer the soup...

[Brendan]

I've been wonderin'..... how am i going to get to this desert and then what will i eat when i'm there, but its all come rushing in to place, like a fantastic moment in my head when all the brain cells started to work together...... ice cream truck..... smooth cold ice cream for all..... what could possible go wrong!!

[MikeVDS]

It's been done before and let me tell you that people will love you for it.

[nogganoodle]

I remember a camp on the Esplanade giving out Ben & Jerrys Cherry Garcia last year. Not a big fan of cherries myself but DAMN it tasted good.

[Finnegan]

You will be revered as a god for bringing cool, sweet goodness to the masses, especially if you dole them out toward the end of the week.

[diane o'thirst]

Oh, yeah, completely agree. That's why I issued the "we're a small camp" caveat.

I've done big group kitchens before, and it's out of my blood now. They were fun...to a degree...but there were some passive-aggressive people involved who made everyone dance to their tune on pain of drama llama scenes.

If you get a group that's demographically on the same culinary page — say, all vegans, all carnivores, all wok, all rice — then doing a big group kitchen is fun. It stops being fun when you have a lot of variance in terms of diet. Opera Camp Kitchen Island 2002 had to cover virtually every dietary restriction known to humanity and most of us on staff would wind up living in the kitchen for five hours per shift, making sure the diabetics, militant vegans (who demanded that pots, pans, utensils and dishes that were used to prepare and serve animal products be labeled), lactose-intolerant, cholesterol-conscious, nut-allergics, Buddhists, gluten-intolerants, nightshade-intolerants and yeast-imbalanced amongst us were provided for. Imagine serving 120 dietetically-tailored meals, restaurant-intensity in a primitive environment. It was that or subsist on steamed cauliflower and lentil stew every night.

Don't forget to live your Playa life, though. Don't become a scullery maid or galley slave.