SC - Good Broth

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/14/99 11:15:17 AM Eastern Standard Time, LrdRas at aol.com 
writes:

<< Since the meat dishes comprised only 3 additional dishes, I don't see how 
you 
 would have felt 'short changed.' The feast I did for your shire followed the 
 same pattern and certainly the several vegetarians who failed to notify me 
in 
 advance were not disappointed.  >>


I am not a vegetarian; I just felt that a meal consisting of fruit, veggies, 
bread, and possibly one other starch dish would, to me, feel more like a 
lunch than a feast.  Certainly fruit, veggies, and bread are common dayboard 
fare, sometimes with little or nothing else.  A vegetarian might well feel 
differently if they are used to similar meals.
As far as the protein issue, I'm not a nutritionist either, and about all I 
know about vegetarian cooking is that the difficult things to get are protein 
and iron.  Most of the vegetarians I've spoken with like to have something 
containing protein in every meal - cheese, beans, whatever.  I always try to 
have a bean dish amongst my vegetarian items for just this reason.  Certainly 
I don't feel that we need to stick to modern health fads or diet fads, but at 
the same time I think we should try to make a reasonably complete meal 
available for most people.  I certainly don't see anyone emulating some of 
the period menus I've read which run to 50% or more meat dishes and very 
little else.

Brangwayna Morgan
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