[Ansteorra] feasts and food safety

Wed Feb 8 11:16:25 PST 2012

My daughter, my "assistant" and I ALWAYS have current food handler cards and will as long as we are doing feasts.  I think it is a must, for my kitchen, anyway.

A votre service,
  HE Elisabeth de Calais

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts,we would all have a Merry Christmas!
Dr. Sheldon L. Cooper

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 From: Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
To: Inc. Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 12:20 AM
Subject: [Ansteorra] feasts and food safety

Which is why it is becoming more common, although unfortunately not done throughout the Known World, to post ingredient lists for feasts. While cross-contamination can't be ruled out, and it happens in restaurants with paid staff as well, this goes a long way to helping this situation.

While many headcooks will cook for people, with allergies, special dishes without specific ingredients in them when requested, this isn't something that anyone should expect. Ask for and look at the ingredient lists for feasts and make your own decsion whether to eat the feast or not. Ansteorra is one of the kingdoms where it is usually possible for feasters and non-feasters to sit at the same table and enjoy their time together.

on-r-offboard-msg (16K) 9/17/01 Comments on allowing non-paying/non-eating folks to attend SCA feasts.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FEASTS/on-r-offboard-msg.html

ingred-lists-msg  (18K)  4/ 6/07  Posting ingredient lists at SCA feasts.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FEASTS/ingred-lists-msg.html

I would also like to see more folks involved with feasts, and especially the headcooks, take courses in food safety such as the one that Dore's brother was going to teach at Candlemas but which unfortunately got canceled. I'm not sure that I would require these at this point, but I would strongly encourage that these be taken.

Stefan

On Feb 7, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Elizabeth Crouchet wrote:

> Yep, when you don't make your own food, you take a chance every time you
> put a bite in your mouth. You do the best you can, then you take your
> chances. Life is full of those risks.
> 
> Claire
> 
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Adam R Thompson <adam.r.thompson1 at gmail.com
>> wrote:
> 
>> While the family did not sue as far as i know, I do know of one case of
>> death due to an allergic reaction to something in a feast.
>> 
>> Richard

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