So I stumbled across this piece about Chelsea Clinton's impending nuptials this morning. I normally wouldn't click on something like this, but the title lured me in.
Chelsea Clinton's Vegan Wedding - Slashfood
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Chelsea Clinton isn't tying the knot with her fiance Marc Mezvinsky until this weekend, but the wedding has already become the event of the year, at least by gossip-rag standards. Questions abound: Who's invited? (Hint: Not many.) What will she wear? (The smart money, as always, is on Vera Wang.) What kind of ceremony will it be, anyway? Thanks to the publicity-shy bride, there are few confirmed details. One thing's fairly certain, though: The caterers will accommodate the former first daughter's vegan diet.
Despite her father's famous predilection for fast food, Chelsea has reportedly been going meatless for more than a decade, even asking White House chef Walter Scheib to teach her to prepare her own vegan meals, according to the Vegetarian Star. By all accounts, Chelsea is a highly intelligent, ambitious woman who doesn't do anything halfway, and her kitchen training was no exception; she worked with Scheib for six weeks prior to leaving for Stanford, earning a "Walter Scheib cooking school certificate" at the end.
Consequently, "insiders" have told Life & Style magazine, the food for the big day "will include vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free dishes." (That'll put the caterers through their paces.) Lest anyone accuse Chelsea of being doctrinaire, however, the wedding menu will also please carnivorous guests. According to those same insiders, there will be a beef entree as well -- grass-fed and organic, naturally.
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When I first clicked on the item, I was interested because I'm getting married in a month and we're planning on serving a vegetarian meal at our reception. I admit I was disappointed to find out that Chelsea would ultimately be serving meat at the reception. To me, our reception meal (spinach lasagna, assorted delicious salads, Mediterranean appetizers) is representative of who we are as a couple, and it consists of foods we enjoy (yum, hummus and tapenade). Sure, I eat meat, but my SO doesn't, and we agreed that we would serve a meal we were both comfortable with. We offered to let my father-in-law smoke something on his Traeger if he wanted (but we wouldn't pay for it), because almost all of the older folks in my SO's family doesn't understand vegetarianism (they're still mystified as to how we get enough protein to survive). My mother-in-law vetoed that and said the older folks could get along eating vegetarian for one day of their lives
So, would you be okay eating vegetarian or vegan at a reception? Do people really have room to complain about what is essentially free food?