Spring Feast during Lent was Re: [Sca-cooks] Speaking of Lent....

[Guenievre de Monmarche]

  > -----Original Message-----
  > The man clearly needs to grow up, and cooks need to quit pandering to
  > him.
  > 
  > Remember the Great Chain of Being: God -> Angels -> Saints -> Cooks ->
  > Kings -> Everybody Else.
  > 
  > But seriously, I wouldn't omit anything because some individual won't
  > eat it, and I don't care if it's Baron Thusandsuch or the Queen of
  > Sheba.  It's a feast, not a restaurant.  Serve a good variety of food,
  > provide alternates if you feel it's really necessary.  They're grownups,
  > they'll cope.

That seems a bit overstated - after all, we do at least play at being a
monarchy. Somehow it seems like a period cook would have to cater to the
tastes of his patrons/employers, I don't see as how we should be any
different.

YMMV,

Guenièvre