Yep. My kid is celiac, and the whole gluten free fad has made feeding him a LOT easier. The gluten free stuff is easy to find and the food itself has gotten much better.
I'm just waiting for someone to develop a good soft, chewy, non-dry, non-crumbly bread/roll/pizza crust... there are acceptable recipes and mixes out there, but none compare to basic gluten-y bread.
Dumb question: Has anyone made a half-decent gluten-free English Muffin? Because those actually make really good mini-pizza bottoms, and are different enough from "bread" that maybe the gluten-free ones might work.
Good question. There are bakers/distributors of premade, frozen bread products -- Udi's and Rudi's, for example -- that almost certainly do, but I've only tried their sliced bread and bagels.
(My wife has largely lost interest in trying further GF bread products -- and pasta, for that matter -- so we mostly just go without in this house.)
Where are you located? Because in my neighborhood alone there are are at least three GF bakeries within a 10-block radius of me, and a pizzeria, palà (http://www.yelp.com/biz/pala-new-york?start=240) which has more-than-acceptable crust.
You might want to book a flight to NYC, or at least see how many of these places will air-freight the goods.
(One bakery, babycakes (http://www.babycakesnyc.com/), is strictly gluten-free and now has locations at both Disneylands! And they have a cookbook! (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307408833?tag=bany-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0307408833&adid=1SNP41VCHGPGA2W7V9QC&))
Ha, city-dweller. I'm 15 minutes from the nearest Food Lion, 45 from Wegmans, and an hour from Trader Joes. I'm sure there are some bakeries here and there, but I'd certainly be driving 45+ minutes (Fredericksburg, VA) or an hour (Richmond, VA) to find any of them. :)
That's spectacularly bad infographicking and terrible stats presentation. Setting aside the content of the photos, the best I can figure is that *of* the 29%, the top three offenders were Dairy (or maybe Eggs) at 38%, Shellfish at 19%, and Gluten (or maybe just Wheat) at 14%, with the remaining 29%* squeezed out of the pie chart in unacceptable fashion.
You try telling that to my wife, who is (a) vegetarian and (b) has problems with milk AND eggs (eggs are worse), for values of diarrhoea/vomiting bad. (Not a full-blown allergy, just an inability to digest them.)
True dat. In the old days, though, eggs often came from dairies. Chickens and other bug peckers were common sights on farms with lots of cows. Organic pesticide, with a marketable by-product!
Joel Salatin of Polyface farms claims he makes $50K/year on his pest control system from eggs alone.
I think what they did was take the top three contributors and proportionally distributed them onto a pie chart.. which is a strange abuse of the data, and borks the numbers. Had they properly distributed and left the remaining 29% as "Other", it would've been fine.
also: i was once accused of sending a take-out order customer into anaphylactic shock from gluten. FROM GLUTEN. as in, i fed her gluten (i hadn't) and made her swell and gasp. i can't even. her order also included mushrooms and shellfish. hm.
Go right ahead and admit you posted this just to make me and my ilk twitch interminably.
(The numbers... they hurt...)
I'm twitchy about eggs being called dairy, too, but that was another war, fought on another continent, etc. etc. Many marine biologists are even now crying into their clam juice spiked with vodka. It's sad that the most accurate bit is maybe using wheat to illustrate gluten.
(But the numbers... the slice sizes... the numbers hurt...)
Cows have hair, and produce milk. Mammals have hair, and produce milk. Coconuts are hairy and have milk. Therefore coconuts are mammals, and coconut milk counts as dairy. Coconuts are round and hard, with a liquid inside. Eggs are round and hard, with a liquid inside. Therefore eggs count as dairy.
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Date: 2013-09-04 12:34 am (UTC)(My wife has largely lost interest in trying further GF bread products -- and pasta, for that matter -- so we mostly just go without in this house.)
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Date: 2013-09-04 02:44 am (UTC)You might want to book a flight to NYC, or at least see how many of these places will air-freight the goods.
(One bakery, babycakes (http://www.babycakesnyc.com/), is strictly gluten-free and now has locations at both Disneylands! And they have a cookbook! (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307408833?tag=bany-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0307408833&adid=1SNP41VCHGPGA2W7V9QC&))
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Date: 2013-09-03 03:42 am (UTC)* Huh.
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Date: 2013-09-03 03:52 am (UTC)You don't, for example, feel that eggs are an inappropriate choice of picture to go with the caption "Dairy"?
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Date: 2013-09-04 02:08 am (UTC)My wife's celiac, though, that was years of hell before it was diagnosed.
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Date: 2013-09-04 10:05 pm (UTC)Joel Salatin of Polyface farms claims he makes $50K/year on his pest control system from eggs alone.
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Date: 2013-09-03 04:56 am (UTC)It's possible to be allergic to casein, but that's pretty rare, so it wouldn't be that section of the pie chart.
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Date: 2013-09-03 06:13 am (UTC)Some people have more than one allergy, and pie chart of a population makes no sense when a datum can fall in more than one category.
Do I get a prize? :D
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Date: 2013-09-03 12:07 pm (UTC)1) They have relevant pictures for gluten and shellfish allergies
2) They spelled "Dairy" correctly
3) They didn't use Comic Sans
4) .... No, I'm out.
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Date: 2013-09-04 02:17 am (UTC)also: i was once accused of sending a take-out order customer into anaphylactic shock from gluten. FROM GLUTEN. as in, i fed her gluten (i hadn't) and made her swell and gasp. i can't even. her order also included mushrooms and shellfish. hm.
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Date: 2013-09-06 03:24 am (UTC)(The numbers... they hurt...)
I'm twitchy about eggs being called dairy, too, but that was another war, fought on another continent, etc. etc. Many marine biologists are even now crying into their clam juice spiked with vodka. It's sad that the most accurate bit is maybe using wheat to illustrate gluten.
(But the numbers... the slice sizes... the numbers hurt...)
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Date: 2013-09-28 03:21 pm (UTC)*stunned*