Well, not here at Free From, but here at Mike's Gluten Free Blog. Mike has already done us a huge favour by creating a beautiful book of Gourmet Desserts, available from his site, and now he has pulled together gluten free blogs from all over the world. Do go and look. His own blog is Gluten Free Blog, but this is an aggregation of recent … [Read more...]
You want arsenic with that?
So,-you've checked out all the ingredients for the meal tonight, to be sure that you're not going to accidentally poison your gluten free child with wheat - but you might just have missed something ... Green Fertility points out a recent story in the New York Times about carcinogenic arsenic contaminating rice fields in southern-central American … [Read more...]
Yes, marzipan is gluten free
Marzipan is essentially ground almonds and sugar, so there is no reason why marzipan would contain gluten, and I have never seen commercially produced blocks of baking marzipan that has gluten in it. As we know, though, manufacturers put wheat flour into all sorts of unlikely things, so it is best to check if you are at all worried. My gluten … [Read more...]