[Sca-cooks] Feast Ambience - incense

[Sue Clemenger]

I don't know...I'd always thought that perhaps what they were reacting
to was the smoke and the *burning* materials....but then, it's not a
sensitivity I share, so I'm not aware of the details....
--maire

"Mark S. Harris" wrote:
>
> > 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?