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The View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s book The G-Free Diet purports to be about her experiences living gluten-free, but by the storm of controversy it’s generated, you might think it’s a dangerously flawed medical manual. The Executive Director of the Celiac Disease Foundation, Elaine Monarch, went so far as to warn:
…the inaccuracies in this book [...]
From the monthly archives:
May 2009
I just read a disturbing post at Celiac Squirrel, asking celiacs to boycott Babycakes’ much feted cookbook. Kay and I visited Babycakes in NYC and tried their chocolate cupcake, which Kay declared delicious. Now according to Celiac Squirrel, many of the Babycakes recipes use spelt flour. Spelt is a kind of wheat and therefore is [...]
While I was in Durham, North Carolina the other day, I noticed an advertisement for a personal chef that specializes in, among other things, gluten-free cooking. If this were a trend, what a wonderful gift for your GF friends! Or a special treat for yourself on a holiday or anniversary or if you’re sick in [...]
Did you know that Celiac Disease can manifest itself in your teeth? According to a dental website:
“Patients with Celiac Disease will often show a symmetrical pattern of developmental enamel defects.… About 80% of patients with CD have enamel defects as compared with the non Celiac population which has a frequency of about 4%. ”
According to [...]
The Palm Beach County Celiac Support Group of South Florida (pictured above) has established an assistance program “to help those individuals with Celiac Disease and/or Dermatitis Herpetiformis who are living at or below the poverty level.” Sponsored by the Celiac Disease Foundation of South Florida, this program has raised $9000 and gives $25 per month [...]
I only eat peanut butter cookies with brownies. Yeah, you read that right. With brownies. And a vanilla milkshake. That’s why I almost never eat peanut butter cookies.
Should you be less inflexible, you can start crunching on the creations of the gluten-free blogs in under an hour.
Ellen Allard invites you to taste her Peanut Butter [...]
Oatmeal, so we hear, fights cancer and heart disease, and it makes the gluten free diet a little easier to maintain. Specially grown gluten free oatmeal does not have to be contaminated with gluten. If you have Coeliac disease and you want to know if you can still spoon down hot, steaming oatmeal on cold [...]
The American Celiac Disease Alliance has an interesting web page up about a law forbidding discrimination against people with disabilities. They suggest that this law can be used to get federally funded lunch for low income children with celiac disease. The law, 29 USC Sec. 794, states:
No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the [...]
The middle of May is Food Allergy Awareness Week, and there are a few events you might like to attend. Thanks to Living Without for the tip-off.
Bowie Baysox Food Allergy Awareness Night. May 14th you can go to a baseball game in Maryland and get a hotdog on a gluten free bun, chips, soda, and [...]
I dislike eating zucchini because I find it so watery and bland. But these same qualities turn zucchini—like unsweetened applesauce—into a fantastic ingredient for both sandwich and dessert breads. Your bread will become moister and chewier. When you have too much zucchini (or the zucchini is too large and rubbery), do what my husband does [...]
