Eating out with a child who needs a gluten free diet can be tricky. Well, eating out with children who doesn't have dietary problems can be difficult enough, but if you need to analyse every item on the menu as well as deal with the usual childish issues, it can be a real problem. In fact, many adults don't eat out either, once they realise … [Read more...]
Are you worse if you know you’ve eaten gluten?
If you realise - after the fact - that you've eaten gluten, are you more ill than you would be if you had never found out? Charlotte (messageboard) points to an interesting article in the Washington Post, which discusses the 'nocebo' effect. While the placebo effect refers to health benefits produced by a treatment that should have no … [Read more...]
Book Review: Gourmet Desserts (Gluten Free and Wheat Free)
Though I ordered this book a while ago from Mike Eberhart, its arrival coincided with my realisation that my clothes were feeling - shall we say 'slightly tight'? So I postponed cooking from the book for a while ... and then it was a birthday. Husband and I both like carrot cake and it was his birthday on Tuesday, so rather than making the … [Read more...]
