The Parramatta office for the Department of Education had a meeting to feed, and the food needed to do some work. Finger food for a group means people are usually standing, talking, moving between conversations, so everything has to be easy to pick up and eat without a plate becoming a project.
The gluten free arancini sat alongside the spinach and ricotta filo pastry, giving people with dietary needs something genuinely satisfying rather than an afterthought. The cocktail beef pies and the chicken and mushroom pies with cocktail rolls gave the heavier eaters something to come back to. The fruit and vegetable salad platter rounded things out without being decorative, it actually got eaten.
Thirty wooden forks came with the order, which tells you something about how the team planned to use the salad. Someone thought about that in advance.
