Meals: Chefs
Food is provided by Camp Contact for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner (and Snacks) and is Vegetarian, typically with vegan options. Meg will be our meal coordinator in 2012, and Brooking will be our Kitchen infrastructure coordinator. If you'd like to bring additional food options or meat based products you are welcome to, we'll have a separate cooking area for meat preparation, the main kitchen will be Vegetarian only.
Each chef will organize one meal during the week and will also work to keep the food organized. Meals prepared will go from Monday night through Sunday night. If we have more chefs interested, we'll likely work on having prepared breakfasts some of the mornings.
We plan to have another Invite a Guest dinner on Thursday night where we prepare twice as much food than we usually would as a night when campers are specifically encouraged to invite friends over for dinner. The way this works is that every camper is welcome to invite one guest. If a camp member would like to invite more than one guest, they should ask around for other camp mates who either know they won't be inviting a guest or know they won't be attending.
Dinner Meal Preparation will be assisted by 4-6 kitchen helpers. Also there will be people assigned to clean the kitchen before and after each meal time.
Other responsibilities:
- Review list of diet restrictions for camp mates and accomodate as best as possible
- Keep food meant for a specific meal labeled as such and saved
- Update Dry Erase Board in Kitchen with details about food that should be eaten soon because it will go bad
- Label items appropriately
- Coordinate with Kitchen Infrastructure Team to get utensils, cookware, etc as needed
The list of meals and lead chefs will be kept on the internal camp calendar and can be updated by any of the chefs as their menus come together.
For breakfast, lunch, and snacks, the camp will also be providing: bread, bagels, chips crackers, sesami sticks, dried fruit (mangos, raisins, strawberry strips, bananas), fresh fruit (while it lasts), nuts (walnuts, peanuts, pistachios, almonds, sunflower seeds), peanut butter, jam, hummus, cereal, granola, oatmeal, raisins, limited rice milk, powdered soy and cow milk, limited juice, chai, green, chamomile, and peppermint teas, coffee, oils and vinegars and condiments, fig bars, chocolate and carob chips (while they last), date-coconut rolls (while they last), ricecakes, cheese, tofu and tempeh.
While we would like most people to arrive to the camp by Monday, Aug 29th, we are looking for a few late arrivers who could bring fresh greens in with them, and be reimbursed. Email Kristi if this is something you can help us with.
Also, check out this video about kitchens at Burning Man and the Burning Man Guide. Here's a fun video with an important message about cleaning.