[Sca-cooks] Feast Ambience - incense

[Mark S. Harris]

> I'm wondering....if you wanted some of the ambience of sage, couldn't
> you intersperse sage leaves in the decorations? That way, you'd avoid
> the incense allergies....
> --Maire, also working on an Andalusian feast, but it's nowhere nearly as
> fancy as Giles'...


But wouldn't the folks bothered by burning sage leaves also be bothered
by the aroma given off by the sage leaves, even when not burning? Or is
that amount of vapor at such a lower level that this doesn't occur? Or
is the heat of the burning needed to change the sage oils into something
irritating?


> Mark Calderwood wrote:
>> Hmm, that's a really good point Serena, and one I hadn't considered. I
>> wasn't planning to go overboard with the the incense, only small amounts of
>> sage and frankincense, but might be a good idea to tone it down anyway.
>> Thanks for the tip!

Stefan
(who is allergic only to pollen or somesuch. And luckily whatever has
been bothering me here for the last week or so, doesn't seem to exist
up at Pennsic)
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