and, if this cannot be averted, its progressive fading & disappearence a loss to be lamented: is it now inevitable?
is there no popular oral (- and written? -) malti tradition? song? poetry?

hope you're finding the hotel staff &c. trainable vis-a-vis the possibilities of dairy-free food beyond raw fresh fruit+veg; they sound willing and friendly, just never met the idea before. (like many people in industrial south lancashire regarding "vegetarian" as tantamount to "alien from mmars, or venus, or pluto...")