SC - picky eaters

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/25/00 3:00:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
tinyzoo at aracnet.com writes:

<< I'm sure many of you will cringe in your seats, or may even explode in
 spontaneous combustion at the idea of this. >>

Not so much cringe. Amused a little, perhaps. I had the privilege of sitting 
next to a 7 year old youngster that tried everything served and since it was 
their 'gross ' stage of life, the more weird the better. This child pigged 
out on everything including kidneys, livers and brains not to mention black 
olives and a whole rabbit set before him. 

Who woulda thought?

My advice to cooks is to do the best you can with the ingredients and sources 
you have available. Leave it up to the feasters to read ingredients lists, 
and people with picky children to bring food for them if they won't eat 
what's offered. Provide variety so those with allergies will go away feeling 
filled and ignore food preferences entirely. It's always worked for me and 
always worked in our shire and several around us. People expect period feasts 
in our area and are extremely disappointed if they are not provided in 
entirety. One doesn't expect any of the arts to waffle and to expect those in 
the art of cookery to waffle is absurd and ludicrous to the extreme, IMO.

I serve as close to period feasts as I can and I expect my students to do so. 
I also expect any shire that I am attending an event at to do the same. If 
they don't, I  get off board space and whip up a mouth watering to die for 
feast and serve it to my table while the other feasters look on and  envy 
that which they should have had. ;-)

Ras

Ras