SC - SCA cordials ......Rum?

[Terri Millette]

In a message dated 7/29/99 7:50:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, LrdRas at aol.com 
writes:

<< Some 
 allergies are so wide ranging that I can't imagine even trying to 
accommodate 
 them in the specific setting of a MEDIEVAL feast. For instance a wheat or 
 almond allergy but, then again, I don't suspect that folks with such all 
 encompassing allergies would sign up for a feast if they were able to see a 
 menu of in advance. Or would determine whether the foods they could eat were 
 numerous enough to warrant the price. >>

There is a lady who sometimes attends Silver Rylle feasts who is allergic to 
wheat (more specifically to glutens).  It is severe enough to extend to the 
forms of vinegar which are made from wheat (ie white distilled, or so she 
informed me).  However, she is able to eat the insides of a pie cooked in a 
wheat crust, just not the crust.  She has called before several events now to 
get the menu beforehand, and at the last one was able to eat, if I remember 
correctly, 5 or six out of the 8 dishes offered.  That did not require any 
rearranging on my part; I simply followed Ras' rule of allowing enough 
variety.
She makes sure to call ahead, and also to bring her own food along just in 
case.  She will come up to the serving window as items are going out to 
doublecheck which item is which, so that she does not inadvertently get 
something she shouldn't.  I have no problem with this; she is invariably 
polite about it.

Brangwayna Morgan
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