Janet wrote:

>> One of our diners has a sensitivity to seafood, so I
>> have to change the appetizer (cold oysters with hot buttered cabbage)
>> and the main course (pan-roasted cod with garlic-parsley new potatoes).
>> I'm still thinking it over.
>
> Pah Bob you can't do that, you know I've been waiting for a cybertaste
> of the oysters and cabbage recipe :-)
> And I never heard of sensitivity to cod....

Over the last few months, this person got sick (for several days) after
eating seafood on three different occasions and three different types of
seafood, so she is extremely wary about consuming any seafood at all. As
Mark Twain said, a cat, having sat on a hot stove lid, will not sit on a
hot stove lid again. But he won't sit on a cold stove lid, either.

I'm a bit sympathetic to her outlook. In 1988 I got sick after eating
falafel. As it turned out, the illness was not related to falafel at
all; it had been incubating for a couple months. I *knew* that, but for
years after I still couldn't look at falafel without feeling queasy anyway.

The cold oysters with hot cabbage is still very much on my to-do list.
It'll just be some time when this person isn't joining us for dinner.

Bob