[Sca-cooks] Serving meals in period

[Adele de Maisieres]

RUTH EARLAND wrote:

> The second point of this very long response is that dietary 
> considerations play an important role in my feast planning. Yes, I 
> would like to serve a completely period feast. But I understand that 
> in order to encourage more people to stay for the feast I need to give 
> them flexibility in choosing which foods they will or will not eat.
>
> I don't subscribe to the Happy Meal mentality. I don't want to serve 
> people purely modern food and say it's "period". But I don't want to 
> cheat feasters or endanger their health by offering them nothing but a 
> selection of foods they might not be able to eat.


I get the impression that different groups are burdened (or not) with 
widely varying amounts of fussiness.  I try to cook more-or-less 
completely period dishes, including period alternates for people with 
allergies/intolerances and I have never had any difficulty getting 
anyone to eat.

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Adele de Maisieres

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