Letter to the Editor: We can fast without religion

When I first went to Jaffa, Israel, to work as a chef for an Anglican guest house, a different choice of breakfast was offered each morning.

One of the choices was homemade pancakes, or crepes, which had to be tossed in a very hot frying pan. Some of the volunteer workers from various countries assigned to this duty dreaded the ominous “pancake day” as it often had its share of disasters, giving them the in-house nickname of “panic cakes”!