
Gilbert Sewall wonders if food allergies, tastes and quirks are enough to discourage anyone from hosting a dinner party. On a
San Francisco Chronicle blog,
Sewall writes that in California . . .
. . . everyone has a Food Issue. It's becoming a signature there, like a car, a statement of who and what one is.
. . . I knew something was up over lunch when I brought out the spaghetti. A guest I had never met before let out a strange little gasp. I can't eat wheat, she said. A dear friend then announced he had a big problem with refined sugar. And, he said firmly, anything that might include it.