I just realized that I've almost never seen anyone deal with food allergies or particular diets in SF/F literature... One wonders how people would get by...
I have, but not often. However, main characters in two of my SF TV shows (well, both of them are Stargate shows) have allergies. Of course, they're set in present day. But one of the characters has a fairly serious citrus allergy, and he's almost always asking before he eats unknown stuff whether it has citrus or not. So there's a good chunk of fanfiction for that one that involves allergies and how to deal with them.
I've definitely seen stuff in both genres that deals with the issue, but I couldn't for the life of me say what. Plus, one figures that in most SF worlds, they've advanced in the future far enough to deal with food allergies and the like to the point that nobody makes a note of it.
That's not a particular diet. That's just being Klingons.
I think Maya meant more, you know, restricted diets for health purposes. So unless the Klingons are eating food still lively enough to bite back because otherwise their glucose levels get too high . . .
Esmay Suiza, in Elizabeth Moon's Serrano/Suiza books, comes from a planet where there are religious restrictions on diet, although she abandons those restrictions when she leaves home and joins the military.
What'shername, the black Intelligence officer in Thendara House, is vegan, also for religious reasons.
I can't remember any specific food allergies anywhere, though. This seems odd, especially since one would expect humans to develop allergies to the kinds of synthetic foods that people eat, say, in the poorer worlds of the Firefly 'verse.
There are plenty of books that mention going to the bathroom. Look at A Song of Ice and Fire. It was a big issue for one of the characters, because it gave away her sex.
Clarke's 2001, A Space Odessey has a passage in which the main character reviews the instructions for the anti-gravity toilet.
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, there's a planet whose ecology requires that there be no difference in weight between the amount one eats and the amount one excretes, and that the difference will be removed surgically upon one's leaving the planet if necessary--hence why it's so important to get a receipt each time one visits the lavatory there. Sorry for the paraphrasing--couldn't find the passage for direct quoting.
I can't off the top of my head think of actual food allergies, though there are definitely characters who state preferences for certain foods (Gimli scoffs at Lembas until he tries some; I recall a passage in some book somewhere in which bread is used as bricks because it's so hard--again, sorry for the vagueness :-p).
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I've definitely seen stuff in both genres that deals with the issue, but I couldn't for the life of me say what. Plus, one figures that in most SF worlds, they've advanced in the future far enough to deal with food allergies and the like to the point that nobody makes a note of it.
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I think Maya meant more, you know, restricted diets for health purposes. So unless the Klingons are eating food still lively enough to bite back because otherwise their glucose levels get too high . . .
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What'shername, the black Intelligence officer in Thendara House, is vegan, also for religious reasons.
I can't remember any specific food allergies anywhere, though. This seems odd, especially since one would expect humans to develop allergies to the kinds of synthetic foods that people eat, say, in the poorer worlds of the Firefly 'verse.
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I don't know- I'd think that synthetic foods would probably be designed to be hypoallergenic, unless it were a major difference in cost...
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Only blood, must be living, depending on your world you have the garlic issue...
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"Must be blood!" "Must be fresh!"
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(That aside, good point. Hmm.)
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In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, there's a planet whose ecology requires that there be no difference in weight between the amount one eats and the amount one excretes, and that the difference will be removed surgically upon one's leaving the planet if necessary--hence why it's so important to get a receipt each time one visits the lavatory there. Sorry for the paraphrasing--couldn't find the passage for direct quoting.
I can't off the top of my head think of actual food allergies, though there are definitely characters who state preferences for certain foods (Gimli scoffs at Lembas until he tries some; I recall a passage in some book somewhere in which bread is used as bricks because it's so hard--again, sorry for the vagueness :-p).