SC - Lady Seaton's Project

[david friedman]

At 12:50 AM +1100 3/17/00, Lady Gwynydd of Culloden wrote:
>The point I was trying to make (clumsily, I am beginning to feel), 
>is that the attempt to make a "period-feel" cookbook for those with 
>serious food issues is a good and valid thing for the Society as a 
>whole (yes, I have grasped that it is a private project, but the 
>point remains).  In Ynys Fawr, and I suspect the rest of the Known 
>World, we put on the flyers that those with food allergies should 
>tell the autocrat well in advance so that accomodations can be made. 
>As was mentioned in an earlier post, the autocrat in question may 
>well not have access to enough sources to find actual period recipes 
>which cover the problem.  What should be done then?  Surely it is 
>better to make adjustments (and certainly not pass the resultant 
>dish off as period) than have to tell the would-be feaster "sorry, 
>there is nothing we can do".

And the point I was making was that, in producing a cookbook for 
those with food allegies, it would make more sense to find period 
recipes consistent with those allergies than to work out recipies 
modified from period recipies in order to be consistent with those 
allergies. It would make more sense because it would be more fun, it 
probably wouldn't be any more work, and you would end up with period 
recipes rather than period like recipes. There might be exceptions in 
the case of people with very odd and/or multiple allergies who 
already knew what substitutes worked well--but your hypothetical 
cookbook probably won't help them anyway, since you are unlikely to 
have covered their particular pattern of allergies.

>I think that we must have more vegetarians here that in other parts 
>of the World!  Autocrats usually seem to have to come up with at 
>least two different meals, one for the omnivores and one for the 
>vegetarians
...

So did Master Chiquart, writing in the 15th century. Vegetarianism is 
not a new thing.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/