[MR] Posting Feast Menus (fwd)

[Lucinda Welenc]

Craig Levin wrote:
>
> Hrosvitha von Celle:
>
> > If I post, how in depth should I get with the ingredients?  I would like to
> > accomodiate as many people as possible, within reason - but i don't plan on
> > changing dishes that day due to someone's diatary restrictions, but people who
> > contact me before hand---that's another story...
>
> Not to be a stickler for this, but consider some of the really
> "popular" food sensitivities and allergies listed at:
> http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/food.htm
>
> IME, people with food sensitivities or other dietary restrictions
> are often happy just to get the information that helps them
> decide whether they'll want a dish or not, as opposed to
> requesting a special batch of something.

I would never say to a feast cook: "I can't stand mustard, so I want you
to throw that choice out and make something else just for me."  But
OTOH, I *do* need to know, so that I don't have to hastily vacate the
feasthall because the sauce on the meat that I have just put in my mouth
turns out to have had mustard in it.

On the third hand, though, I *have* strongly urged changes on a feast
cook where the ingredients were posted, because one of the herbs
(pennyroyal) used for the main meat dish can cause miscarriages.  They
settled for announcing it before the feast; I think the autocrat knew
that if they didn't, I would have.

--
Alanna
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Saying of the day:
The worst part of valor is indiscretion.