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Ongoing Gluten-Free Store Tours at New Seasons Market in Portland, Oregon

Statement from New Seasons Market Nutritionist, Karen Seibert, MS Our store Nutritionists, Karen Seibert, MS and Leah Kriewall, MS, RD have a variety of ways to share their knowledge of food and nutrition. Along with other health educators in our community, Leah and Karen teach an assortment of free nutrition classes at our stores. Check [...]

Appetite for Awareness 2010 October 24, 2010

Get ready for a fabulous time! Appetite for Awareness 2010 will be spectacular. The National Foundation for Celiac Awareness (NFCA) is preparing an extraordinary event full of fun, food and gluten-free delights! This annual fest and Philadelphia tradition has something for everyone! Children’s Pavilion Vendor Marketplace Gluten-Free Cooking Spree Appetite for Awareness brings the best of [...]

Scharffen Berger Chocolate Adventure Contest: Cupcakes! Deadline is Jan 2, 2011

I love baking and recipe contests — especially those that enable gluten-free artisans the chance to compete with their “gluten-enabled” colleagues. Maybe I have a chip on my shoulder, but I’m always looking to show people that gluten-free can and often times does taste better than the ordinary gluten-filled stuff. It might be a little [...]

National Celiac Awareness Day
(United States)
Sep 13, 2010

It’s September 13 and it’s National Celiac Awareness Day in the U.S. — in honor of Dr. Samuel Gee, a British physician who was the first to find a relationship between celiac disease and diet. He once said, “if the patient can be cured at all, it must be by means of diet.” In 1888, [...]