Terms

Who can have an account

You must be 13 or older to create an account. We do not knowingly create accounts for children under 13, and if we learn that one has been created we delete it and everything attached to it promptly.

The calendar and the day’s fasting rule are open to everybody, with no account and nothing to give us. The recipes need a free account — free now and free later, with nothing to pay at any point.

If you are under 18, please have a parent or guardian read this with you.

What the fasting guidance is, and is not

Orthodox fasting practice is not uniform. Jurisdictions differ, monastic practice differs from parish practice, and your priest may direct you differently for reasons of health, age, or your own situation.

What is here is guidance offered carefully. It is not a rule over you. Your spiritual father is. Questions of liturgical practice belong to your priest, not to this website.

Nothing here is medical or dietary advice. Recipes list their ingredients; allergies, intolerances and medical conditions are yours to check, and fasting is not something to undertake against a doctor’s advice.

Your account

An account is required to read the recipes, and it is free. There is no paid tier behind it and no card to enter.

Keep your password to yourself, and tell us if you think someone else has it. You are responsible for what is done through your account.

Your username is public. Choose one you are willing to have other people see, and do not choose one that impersonates somebody else, or that you would not say in a parish hall.

We may suspend or remove an account that is used to harass people, to break the law, or to attack the site. We would rather write to you first, and normally will.

The recipes

Cook them, print them, photocopy them for your parish, feed people with them. That is what they are for.

Please do not republish the collection wholesale or pass it off as your own. Many of these recipes were given to us by the people who cooked them, and they are credited by name because that is their due.

What we do not promise

The site is provided as it is. We check every fasting classification against the ingredient list by hand before publishing it, and we correct mistakes as soon as we learn of them, but we cannot promise the site is free of error or always available.

If something here is wrong, tell us. That is worth more to us than any disclaimer.

Changes

If these terms change, this page changes and the date at the top moves. If a change is significant, we will say so rather than hope you notice.

Questions

Write to hello@fastandfeast.org. A person reads it.