Dear Queenie,

  What do you do when a friend is allergic to certain foods that your family likes to have for dinner on special occasions? We don’t want to leave him out and we don’t want to make him sick, but the dinner is spoiled for us if we can’t have our favourite foods.

  Any suggestions, Queenie?—Gourmet cook

Dear Gourmet cook,

  Surely you can prepare one or two dishes that your friend can eat safely, even if he can’t partake of everything you serve. You and your family might even learn to like those foods too.