ellen_datlow

If the Czarina wasn't hopelessly allergic to chicken, I'd make this for her right now. (We discovered this last week that she has the same allergy to chicken that she has to lobster, and she's suffering now because she didn't want me to suffer. She knows I love the smell of lobster the way she loves the smell of chicken, so when having dinner with her mother the other night, she had a lobster ravioli solely because I wasn't there and wouldn't be tempted. Unfortunately for her, the ravioli had a huge dollop of chicken mixed with the lobster for body, as well as an apparently wonderful chicken sauce surrounding it, and she only discovered this fact after practically beating it out of the restaurant staff two days later. I suspect that part of the reason why we're seeing so many lawsuits involving food allergies is because restaurant staffs would rather lie for hours or days than check on a dish's ingredients; in any case, she's fine, and I'm going to go to extra efforts to make sure that our mutual allergies don't affect the other.)