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Update 4/15/10: The FDA has closed the gluten free labeling survey as it claims that the survey has met quota. Keep your eyes on this space for more news as the FDA formalizes the gluten free labeling process.
Movement has begun at the FDA in the agency’s efforts to introduce standardized gluten free labeling. Take the survey at [...]

Just in time for the holidays …
The snowy weekend inspired me to warm up in front of the oven and do some baking. I always turn to Carol Fenster’s recipes for my gluten free pies, but since we’ve already headed north to Massachusetts to spend time with family, I was without my trusted cook books. Instead, [...]

I love to eat. I really love eating out. But, I really don’t love being forced to eat on the road. For gluties, every new restaurant is a risk and every uninformed server is a serious source of frustration.
Over the past several months, I’ve been traveling quite a bit in both my personal and professional [...]

Hill’s Kitchen in the Eastern Market neighborhood is a gourmet cooking store that I stumbled upon recently because of its pressure cooking courses. There are few cooking classes that delve into the  locavore culture, but Hill’s Kitchen is all about teaching people to cook with seasonal ingredients and preserve summer’s pleasures in jams, jellies and [...]

Recently, the gluties were lucky enough to receive a few sacks of Enjoy Life gluten-free granola. Man, this stuff is good. While it’s completely oat-free, it’s got that perfect granola texture you’ve been craving and the flavors (Cinnamon Crunch, Cranapple Crunch, and Very Berry Crunch) are all delish – sweet but not too sweet. We [...]