Culinary Diplomacy

[rthstewart]

For Adaese, who asked here for a story about Cook. More to come!! (Aidan and Lucy, I think?  Polly and the Whipsnade zoo)  Thanks so much to everyone who has been so nice!

Culinary Diplomacy (2045 words) by rthstewart
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. LewisRating: General Audiences

Comments

[wellinghall]

Hah! Love it! :-)

[rthstewart]

Thank you!!

[adaese]

Happy Easter!

It's just occurred to me, on re-read, that if Cook makes stewed offal as her comfort food, then she's using a recipe she can eat. Which means it has no onions in it. Which are, if not essential, certainly very useful when preparing most forms of offal to appeal to a human palate. Oh dear!

[rthstewart]

I guess there is a point to the standard liver and onions. I ate an awful lot of offal in Romania and got very sick on it several times. I've never recovered, onions or not.

[adaese]

I'm very fond of liver, but it does need to be cooked with great care. I can still remember the terrible, terrible heart-breaking life-wrecking trauma of the first time I tasted liver that had not been cooked by my mother - I think I was about six or seven.

[whswhs]

My gaming circle has developed some of that. No vegans, but one gluten-intolerant, a couple diabetic, one deathly allergic to many nuts, one with various other allergies, and if I eat too much fat my gall bladder revolts. Finding snacks that everyone can eat is . . . interesting.

[rthstewart]

I'm very food sensitive aware -- I have friends and family members and colleagues who are vegans, have celiac disease and life threatening allergies. It's a reality and as a good host I see it as my duty to allow my guests to have fun without worrying about food and have no problem with accommodating these different dietary needs. It DOES get complicated when you begin layering one on top of the other. Gluten free might not be a problem but then you need to add eggs. Vegan might not be a problem, but you add nuts. There are important trade offs!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

[whswhs]

We do have a good friend who's vegan, but she's not at all a gamer; being in a room with five other people for several hours would be agonizing for her. So we rarely need to combine her particular restrictions with anyone else's. Having to do that makes everything more challenging, as your story describes. . . .