Reply To: Ta'arovet Hametz kadma l' Pesach

I am referring to the seforim, not their authors as personalities. Yes, the Smag and Rosh were Ashkenaz, but Ashkenazim don’t hold like them on chozer ve neor.

I wouldn’t serve Ashkenazim kitniyot. One rabbi in E”Y says that Ashkenazim could eat kitniyot if they do a hatarat nedarim. But, Ashkenazim have no heter to eat kitniyot, in a Sefardi home or otherwise. And I’d challenge you to find one normative Ashkenaz home where kitniyot are eaten. (I know of baalei teshuva and other Ashkenazim to adopt Sefardic customs, though).

An Ashkenaz could eat off a Sephardi’s dishes during Pesah without hashash for kitniyot. But, they cannot eat kitniyot b’chlal.

Similarly, if I go to an Ashkenaz home where they have a gentile maid cooking, I wouldn’t eat there.