Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back...And How You Can Too

cover of Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back...And How You Can Tooauthor: Shauna James Ahern
asin: 0470137304
binding: Hardcover
list price: $24.95 USD
amazon price: $16.47 USD


A delightful memoir of learning to eat superbly while remaining gluten free.”- Newsweek magazine "Give yourself a treat! Gluten-Free Girl offers delectable tips on dining and living with zest–gluten-free. This is a story for anyone who is interested in changing his or her life from the inside out!"–Alice Bast, executive director National Foundation for Celiac Awareness “Shauna's food, the ignition of healthy with delicious, explodes with flavor—proof positive that people who choose to eat gluten-free can do it with passion, perfection, and power.”  –John La Puma, MD, New York Times bestselling co-author of The RealAge Diet and Cooking the RealAge Way “A breakthrough first book by a gifted writer not at all what I expected from a story about living with celiac disease. Foodies everywhere will love this book. Celiacs will make it their bible.” —Linda Carucci, author of Cooking School Secrets for Real World Cooks and IACP Cooking Teacher of the Year, 2002 An entire generation was raised to believe that cooking meant opening a box, ripping off the plastic wrap, adding water, or popping it in the microwave. Gluten-Free Girl, with its gluten-free healthful approach, seeks to bring a love of eating back to our diets. Living gluten-free means having to give up traditional bread, beer, pasta, as well as the foods where gluten likes to hide—such as store-bought ice cream, chocolate bars, even nuts that might have been dusted with flour. However, Gluten-Free Girl shows readers how to say yes to the foods they can eat. Written by award-winning blogger Shauna James, who became a interested in food once she was diagnosed with celiac disease and went gluten-free, Gluten-Free Girl is filled with funny accounts of the author’s own life including wholesome, delicious recipes, this book will guide readers to the simple pleasures of real, healthful food. Includes dozens of recipes like salmon with blackberry sauce, sorghum bread, and lemon olive oil cookies as well as resources for those living gluten-free.

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The author really is a great person, and she's gotten a huge following at her blog for good reason. This book is a very positive, well-written inspirational piece that will appeal to Celiacs and those living with allergies. The recipes that are in the book look quite good, but I would hesitate to call this a cookbook as there are only around thirty recipes in the book and many of those are meat or vegetable dishes that don't necessarily need heavy tweaking to be gluten free. There are only about eight recipes for baked goods in the collection, and this is what many Celiacs, especially those who have been diagnosed for a while, are looking for in a cookbook. The baked good recipes that are here look extremely creative and inspiring. Is it wrong that I wish there were more of them? This is a great book for someone trying to adjust to the gluten-free diet and thinking about changing their life and diet at the same time. I'm glad to see that this book has joined the ranks of gluten-free books... although I think the comment that Celiacs will make this book their "bible" is probably a bit much. This is an inspirational piece, but the practically minded may select books with more concrete advice like Dana Korn's Gluten Free For Dummies etc. as their main reference book. I have great admiration for Shauna, who is an engaging and charming speaker, and like this book for itself, as something other than/ more than a cookbook.

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This cookbook comes highly recommended, and the author is a very good blogger too.