SC - feasting and religion

[Christina van Tets]

Hello the List (again)!

Isn't there a period reference somewhere to a Christian who fed Jewish 
friends at his house, and played an unfortunate practical joke on them (told 
them that the salt pork they were eating was herring??) and subsequently 
lost his friends?

I must have this at home somewhere;  the library here doesn't bother with 
anything except desert sciences. Will look - so that's 2 things I have to 
find this weekend...

Incidentally, many of the strictly observant Jews here won't eat from anyone 
else's pots and pans (sigh - my 3-legged pot has never held dairy, only 
meat, but it's _touched_ my wooden spoons), but don't mind barbecues - they 
say the fire cleanses everything.

Personally, I don't mind eating according to someone else's restrictions 
(this seems to go for most of the people here, who are a mix of Jewish, 
Christian, Muslim and Hindu) as long as I do not feel _forced_ to eat 
something forbidden to me.  I think it would be incredibly rude of me to 
demand that my host provide something for me that he cannot eat himself, 
purely to show that I do not subscribe to his religion.  He already knows 
that.  Mind you, I think it would also be incredibly rude of me not to 
provide something that a guest with restrictions other than mine could eat 
in my house.  I'd be willing to bet that people thought like this in period 
too, in areas where they mixed.

Cairistiona
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