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Gluten Free Girl

As I was on bedrest last week, I had a lot of time to whittle away. What better to do with it than my old passion of reading a book? Well...I read three instead. My favorite was Gluten Free Girl by Shauna James Ahern, and by favorite, I mean, a better memoir than Julie Andrew's Home was! It has a lot to do with me, as I can totally relate to this woman, because she has celiac disease. Her book's subtitle is a perfect mantra for the gluten intolerant: "How I found the food that loves me back". This book is about a woman's life journey from a packaged-food, slightly overweight childhood, to a gourmet 4 course meal chef (gluten-free, of course) who meets the love of her life in one of the sweetest ways I've ever heard. This woman has lived all over the world, and therefore has defined her gluten-intolerant life (read: no pasta, bread, cookies, cake, etc.etc....) in one word: YES.

Included are a few amazing recipes, one of which I am going to try out before I give the book back to the library, her pizza crust. One of the worst things about being gluten free is giving up pizza when your friends come over for a movie night. "Well, I guess I'll just have a salad instead" gets pretty annoying after the 7th one in a row every time you go out to a resturaunt. Instead, Mrs. Ahern defines her way of life not by "I can't" or "I will never" but by "I will try to make something better than what I had before!" and her mouth-watering descriptions of in-season food preparation will make your mouth drip with hunger!

*(Celiac symptoms are most common in women, but 1 out of every 100 people has it. Only 3% are estimated to have been diagnosed, the rest suffer with chronic bouts of diareaha, bloating, severe fatigue and anemia, hypo- or hyperthyroidism and in the worst cases, chronic vomiting, infertility, and cancers of the colon and stomach if left completely untreated. )*

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Beck said…
I am so excited to get this book. I may just buy it on Amazon if I can find it. I posted today regarding the whole hypothyroidism thing....so FRUSTRATING. But you can probably understand that!
We need to get together when we come back in November, my blogging friend!
September 21, 2008 at 1:57 PM
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