SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #329

[Ron and Laurene Wells]

Hi

Well, that's definitely a "yes" and "no" on the period vs mundane 
considerations.  As for the salmon, most salmon on the markets here 
on the East coast is designated as farm raised or wild.  It's my 
understanding that farm raised salmon is quite plentiful and in no 
way endangers the wild population.  I've also noticed the retail 
price on salmon dropping so some part of this must be true.  Would I 
serve something TRUELY endangered?  No Way, but it wouldn't fit in a 
feast bubget anyway :-).  I think it would be impossible to serve a 
truely PC feast.  Someone will always find something to nitpick 
about.  If you tried to feed a roomful of people by their 
political/religious/ vegetarian/animal rghts views everyone would 
starve.  So do the best you can and tell the complainers to cook 
their own.


And on a similar point,  would you necessarily make something 
like, say, a sausage recipe from Platina that called for calf or cow 
brain when there is, even though minor, a risk of contracting  Mad 
Cow Disease from eating cow brains? (Very minor from what I 
understand as American cattle feeding practices are different from 
those of the British.  Mainly, we don't feed cow to cow).  Or, would 
you brew a medicinal or cordial from a period recipe that contains an 
herb that is NOW known to be poisonous?   Methinks it all boils down 
to common sense.
 

> OK, I admit it, I am a big salmon fan.  Furthermore, I'm darn sure
> it's an appropriate food for my persona (12th c. Ireland).
> 
> However, at a mundane dinner (work), someone announced that they would
> not eat the salmon entree' because they "refuse to eat an endangered
> species."  (I live in the Pacific Northwest; the salmon runs are all
> in danger here up and down the coast.)  This is making me rethink one
> of my favorite dinners (sniff).
> 
> Fortunately, I guess, my wife hates salmon.
> 
> I suppose what I am asking is - how much do we "worry" about things
> like this?  I've no problem with not eating salmon (more for me), but
> should our feasts also take into account mundane issues like this?
> 
> ===
> One man's fish is another man's poisson.
> 
> Conchobar 
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