Bob Terwilliger > wrote:

> I've never found out whether eggs are allowable under those rules,
> but if they are, that would open new vistas of culinary opportunity for
> fasters.

Sometimes eggs are allowed, sometimes not. Ditto wine and oil (and, by
the way, there is no distinction between different types of oil; oil is
"yeley", no matter what kind). The most authoritative source of
lithurgical (in the wider sense) rules in Eastern Orthodoxy is Typikon,
which apparently has never been fully translated into English. Fasting,
including xerophagy, rules are covered there. Here is a short
excerpt/explanation:

<http://www.stots.edu/article.php?id=19>

Victor