SC - Non-member submission - Re:Lenten feast for non-christian characters
Bonne of Traquair
oftraquair at hotmail.com
Sat Mar 3 12:42:39 PST 2001
> >Well, some of us do portray period
> > non-Christians; I can think of
> > >several people who portray period Jews, and one
> > can easily imagine
> > >that they, in persona, would find being forced
> > to eat food specifically
> > >made for a Christian Holy Day (well, several
> > weeks of Lent - but you
> > >get the drift) to be offensive.
> > >
> > >Alban
Special foods are not prepared for Lent. Many foods are not prepared during
Lent due to restrictions against them. Cooks figured out how to modify
others in order to serve more variety. But both the unrestricted foods and
modified foods might well be served on any other day of the year. There is
nothing special about them except that they don't contain flesh.
Someone else already posted references that abstaining from certain dishes
on the table was how jewish people that had to eat with christians dealt
with their own dietary restrictions. The most obvious restrictions being
kinds of meat and combinations of meat with other foods leads me to beleive
the dishes jews did choose would be those made in a Lenten style--lacking
flesh--as these could be assumed to be most likely to protect the jewish
person from accidental dietary error--only the seafood choices are left to
worry about. Therefore, you could conclude that rather than being offended
at being offered a Lenten feast, a jewish persona would be glad of the the
ease of not having to pay such strict attention to their food choices.
Bonne
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