Featured Recipe:
Grilled Lamb Chops with Chimichurri Sauce
from Lemons and Anchovies

I haven’t posted anything from Jean over at Lemons and Anchovies in a while, but this recipe for Grilled Lamb Chops with Chimichurri Sauce will make up for that gap in time…

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Featured Book:
Paleo Comfort Foods
by Julie & Charles Mayfield

I received this book more than a few months ago and have gone through it page by page and have tried at least a dozen of the recipes. It’s been a very handy resource in the kitchen, especially when looking for things to make my ever so skeptical and demanding kids. They always challenge me to make something that is either…

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Featured Restaurant:
Posana Cafe
Asheville, North Carolina

Posana Cafe is owned and operated by Peter and Martha Pollay. Peter is the Executive Chef and a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America. He’s worked under such great chefs and restauranteurs as Wolfgang Puck, Lary Levy, Waldy Malouf and David Burke…

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Featured Product:
Grass Fed Jerky Chews

I had given up hope on beef jerky a long time ago. Not only were most of the store bought versions not gluten-free, they also contained a pretty hideous list of ingredients that I wouldn’t even want to feed my…

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Gluten-Free Blog Showcase: Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef

Shauna James Ahern’s Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef is arguably one of the most widely read gluten-free blogs in the world. Do a Google search for “gluten-free” and it’s the first blog that comes up (behind just a few of the top celiac websites). I’m sure her traffic stats are out of this world. I [...]

Celiac networking done right!
The New York City Celiac Disease Meetup Group

Anybody who knows me knows that I’m a huge fan of networking through channels like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. I’m also a huge fan of more traditional in-person methods, such as social get togethers, happy hours, and business events. The online methods have their advantage for sure — a much wider reach to far more [...]

Gluten-free in the UK

Before arriving in France for the summer, we spent a hellish week in London — while I love London (I spent a few years there back in the early ’90′s), this visit was especially bad as there were five of us (myself, the wife and three kids) dealing with jet lag and not being close [...]

Sans gluten in France

I want to start off by saying that I’m very lucky to be sitting in a beautiful little bed and breakfast in the village of Monts in the Loire Valley. It’s not all fun and games, it’s a working holiday — it’s something that my family and I are attempting to make a yearly tradition [...]

Undiagnosed celiac disease in your parents

My father died at 43-years of age in 1975. I was always told it was because of alcohol abuse, smoking and just generally poor personal habits. I was eight years old and not that close to him as my parents had split several years before. I don’t have many memories of him, but I do [...]

Hugo’s in L.A., a gluten-free bonanza!

I’ve lived in L.A. for most of my life and have tried many restaurants offering gluten-free menus. Some are merely a handful of regular menu items that have been identified as being gluten-free, some offer a very limited selection of specifically gluten-free items and there are places like Hugo’s. Hugo’s has a menu that is [...]

Being diagnosed with celiac disease was the luckiest day of my life

I recently read a fantastic article by Danna Korn on Celiac.com titled, Diagnosed with celiac disease? How lucky you are! I am in total agreement with this line of thought and have been preaching this for many years to people. Danna hit just about every point that I like to make and really makes a great [...]

If you’re going to advertise the fact that your restaurant offers a gluten-free menu — please do a little research and offer a REAL gluten-free menu

Without naming names, I went to a restaurant the other day that advertised a new gluten-free menu.  When I arrived and asked about it, the hostess knew nothing of it — so I asked for the manager.  The manager seemed surprised that I had asked and then went in the back and returned with a [...]

Just because it’s gluten-free
doesn’t mean it’s healthy.

With the gluten-free diet being a fad of late, it amazes me how many people will buy things like gluten-free donuts, pizza crusts, bagels, cookies and cakes and think that somehow they are getting something healthy.  These are obviously not people who have been diagnosed with celiac disease and they are obviously people who have [...]