Restaurant menus

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Maija.Ray wrote:

 

> Don't you just wish that restaurants labeled their menus better? Then we

>wouldn't have so many issues with how to label ourselves to people. I

hate

> ordering a garden salad and receiving one with bacon on it when it wasn't

> specified on the menu. I don't even bother ordering soup as I KNOW it's

> sure to be tainted.

 

How very true! In a Chinese restaurant, I explained so carefully that I

wanted a vegetable soup etc..., and they brought something that smelled and

tasted suspiciously like chicken, as far as I could remember (I'm a

vegetarian since 1988). I looked a bit better and I saw a couple of tiny

pieces of chicken floating in it. I called the waiter, and he said that he

had carefully removed all the chicken, and oh he was so sorry these two bits

escaped him. Really thick, eh?

Restaurants meant for tourists are good, because they usually list all the

ingredients in a dish, even salads.

You know which ones are heavenly? Indian restaurants. You get two clear

headings: Veg and Non-Veg. If you choose veg, you don't have to worry or ask

for details. And the waiters know exactly what you mean. Although of course

vegetarian never means vegan, it's always lacto-vegetarian, but this doesn't

bother me, because I'm not vegan, and anyway there are few Indian dishes

that use dairy in cooking, and it's pretty obvious (usually mentioning

paneer)

In the Traditional Greek Recipes cookbook I'm preparing, which must

unfortunately be a general, all-inclusive cookbook, because here in Greece

nobody will buy a vegetarian one, I have taken great care to provide for us

vegetarians in a way that we can easily and quickly find what has meat in it

and what not. Actually even meat-eaters will find this handy, I believe,

because some of them might want to keep a check on how much meat they

consume, for instance not wanting to have meat in every dish of the meal, so

if there is a main dish with meat, not also include it in the appetizer, in

the pasta sauce and in the salad too! Every chapter is divided in a " with

meat and fish " and " without meat and fish " subchapter. And you can be sure

that every recipe that could be made without meat (for instance salads) is

put in its meatless version, and the meat add-ons put at the bottom, as

variation, not in the main body of the recipe.

 

 

 

Irene

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