[Sca-cooks] Fava bean recipes

[Adele de Maisieres]

Gretchen Beck wrote:

>--On Monday, September 10, 2007 1:18 PM -0400 "Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne 
>Heise" <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net> wrote:
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>>>Admittedly I have not been to that many feasts, but I've been to a few
>>>major and minor events over the years. Is it because favas are harder
>>>to get than other beans, and there is a general unawareness of them?
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>I think a lot of folks don't use favas because they aren't familiar, but 
>also because they are afraid of the allergy issue: [Favism]
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I'd never heard of that one, actually-- of course, people of 
mediterranean origin are a bit thin on the ground here. 

In general, while I'm willing to make adjustments around known allergy 
issues, I can't imagine not serving something because someone might 
_potentially_ be allergic.


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Adele de Maisieres

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