CeliacChicks

Gluten-Free Giveaways: 1000 Gluten-Free Recipes by Carol Fenster

***This contest has ended.***

Carol Fenster, author of several gluten-free cookbooks, has been gluten-free for two decades. Her new book, 1,000 Gluten-Free Recipes, is the Big Daddy of the bunch. If there is one thing that you can't have too many of, it is cookbooks and recipes! Just browsing through this book gives you so many cooking ideas. I've tried two of the recipes and they turned out to be really big hits- even at my office full of gluten-gluttons! (Gluten-Free Pizza recipe soon to follow).

This book includes:

172 breakfast, muffin and bread recipes
75 sandwich, salad and soup recipes
106 pasta, grain, bean and vegetable recipes
205 main course recipes
377 cookie, cake, pie, and other dessert recipes, and more!

I've always remembered what my cookbook junkie brother, John, once said about buying cookbooks, "If a cookbook costs, let's say $20-35 dollars, and you get at least one good recipe out of it, it has paid for itself since one meal out would cost the equivalent or more." With 1000 recipes Carol's book will be paying for itself over and over and over again. What a great investment!

Wiley has offered to give away 2 copies of this book to our faithful readers! I've also asked Carol to be available today (September 30th, 2008) to answer your pressing gluten-free cooking questions!

Here's the deal:

 

Celiac Disease Centers, Organizations, Support Groups & Resources

CELIAC DISEASE CENTERS

California
Wm. K. Warren Medical Research Center For Celiac Disease, San Diego
Stanford Celiac Sprue Clinic

Illinois
The University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center
Rush University Adult Celiac Disease Program

Maryland
University of Maryland Center For Celiac Research

New Jersey
The Kogan Celiac Center

New York
Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University

CELIAC DISEASE ORGANIZATIONS

United States
Celiac Disease Foundation (CDF)
Celiac Sprue Association (CSA)
Gluten Intolerance Group of North America GIG)
National Foundation For Celiac Awareness (NFCA)

Canada
Canadian Celiac Association (CCA) 
Ottawa Chapter
Toronto Celiac

Europe
Association of European Coeliac Societies (AOECS)
Celiac Youth Of Europe (CYE)
Slovenia Celiac Society

CELIAC DISEASE SUPPORT GROUPS

Georgia
Atlanta Metro Celiacs

Massachusetts
Boston-The Healthy Villi

Minnesota
Celiac Friends Twin Cities Support Group (Minneapolis - St Paul Area)

New York
Suffolk County Celiacs
Westchester Celiac Support Group

Washington
Bellingham Gluten Intolerance Group

 

OTHER RELATED RESOURCES

Celiac.com
Gluten-Free Restaurant Awareness Program
Celiac Disease Meetups

MESSAGE BOARDS

Listserv
SillyYaks Yahoo Groups

I will keep adding to this list.
If you know of a celiac disease organization that should be added to this list, please leave the name and a link in the comments below. Please do not link to businesses. If you are a business, or would like to let me know about a business, please email me the info.
Thank you.

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Corn Allergy News

Epicurious recently had an interesting article* about corn allergies on their new Epi-log blog. As many of you know, I am allergic to corn and dairy. I always thought this allergy was uncommon, but this article points out that in the United States there are an estimated 10,000,000 people with a corn allergy! Whoa! Does anyone know why corn is not on the list of top eight food allergens? And why did they cut it off at eight? I bet corn is number 9 or 10!

If you have a corn allergy, you might enjoy watching the documentary King Corn. I really liked it. Uh, and maybe you can make some popcorn for the show!

I'm just curious, how many of you with celiac disease have additional food allergies? And what are they?

*The article mentions "corn gluten", this is not to be confused with wheat gluten, or gluten in the grains that are on the forbidden list for those with celiac disease. Corn is a safe ingredient for people on a gluten-free diet.

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Gluten-Free Shopping in Scarborough, Maine

Here is the latest in our ongoing CeliacChicks Around The World feature. This was sent in by Kat Brooks. Thank you, Kat!

On 9-22-08 I discovered a fantastic store on Route 1 in Scarborough, Maine.  It's called Lois' Natural Marketplace and I felt like a kid in a candy store!  They had loads of gluten free foods - a great variety of manufacturers in all categories.  Quite a lot of it was produced locally by folks with celiac relatives and Lois, the owner, managed to get this huge assortment of foods in one place. 

There is also a sandwich and soup bar, and the chefs there make nearly everything gluten-free.  I got some Greek Chicken Soup and it was so nice to be able to eat something without worrying if the person just told me it was gluten free to brush me off.  Everyone I spoke to was very knowledgeable about celiac disease and they offered to special order anything I couldn't find.  It really was a pleasure to shop there!

The baked goods there are to-die-for! I can't even remember the last time I ate anything with pumpkin in it, which is my absolute favorite, and I was nearing ecstasy with their moist and decadent Pumpkin Chocolate Cake.  Yes, I ate the whole thing!  And this morning I ate the Blueberry-Peach Coffee Cake and that was delicious beyond words as well.  I am looking forward to polishing off my Carrot Cake tomorrow.

Gluten-Free Giveaways: Win FREE Chocolate For A YEAR!

Oh my! More companies want to give us gluten-free gifts! Here is a message from my friends at Enjoy Life Foods:

It is now safe to release your inner choco-holic!

Finally, a delicious chocolate bar from Enjoy Life! Gluten, dairy, nut and soy FREE boom CHOCO boom bars are now available in three choco-licious varieties:

dairy-free rice milk
dairy-free rice milk with crispy rice
dark chocolate

To celebrate this delicious debut, Enjoy Life will give a YEARS WORTH OF CHOCOLATE to one lucky CeliacChicks reader!

Prize includes:

1 case dairy-free rice milk bars
1 case dairy-free rice milk with crispy rice bars
1 case dark chocolate bars
DVD of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
"Got Chocolate?" t-shirt
Coupons to share with your friends

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