Gluten-Free Cooking

We left Ferguson, just outside of St. Louis, a few hours ago, after the best cookie and lunch stop! Jon foundFree Range Cookies, an entirely Gluten Free bakery, on Yelp, and so we went a little out of our way to visit the bakery.  It is a small shop, and the owner/baker Linda appears to be something of a one woman show, but the donuts are delicious and it was a very enjoyable stop.

After an unfortunate reaction to Trader Joe's supposedly non-gluten Organic Corn Dippers, I have sent the following email to Trader Joe's.  If you are gluten-free, or if you have gluten-free friends, please help me in encouraging Trader Joe's to get it right.

Dear Trader Joe's --

The funny thing about facing food allergies with gusto: people come out of the woodwork to talk with me about my solutions and to share theirs. There are so many of us, truly, that I'm surprised awareness is still as limited as it is.

Last night I wrote an email to a friend of a friend who recently learned about gluten/dairy/egg/sugar sensitivities.  Since my last useful post was so long ago, I thought I'd share some excerpts from that email here.  Hopefully I'll keep up with this blog more frequently, as we have been eating like royalty!

For the past three years I have been getting progressively more tired, my eczema more frustrating and inconvenient and, well, ugly, and my mood more generally irritable.