SC - list newbie/Seasonal food.

[Ted Eisenstein]

>However, the point is, assuming there were no pressing reason that you
>could not eat what the goyim ate, could you afford to be offended that
>they offered you what they were eating if it did not violate your
>religious laws?
Well, I wouldn't be offended at being offered food I could eat - but I'm
a pretty easy person to deal with, and hope I'd be just as easy if I 
had lived in period and was seriously religious to boot.
On the other hand. . . considering some of the forced conversions going
on by one religion or another at the time, while two people of differing
religions might have business relations, or good friendships, they might
not have wanted to eat at each other's tables for fear of being seen as
converting to that religion. You never know when they might slip you
a cleverly disguised communion wafer or something. They might not
slip you anything - but rumors can start with no basis in fact, and the
sight of you coming out of "their" house after dinner could give rise
to nastiness that could easily be stopped by just not dining over there
at all.

Alban