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Today’s recipe relies heavily on a number of ingredients it appears quite a few people dislike – quinoa, coriander and celery. Quinoa is a gluten-free pseudo-grain from South America. People say it’s nutty but to my buds its averagely bland,…
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I’ve lost the hesitancy when asking for gluten free; it no longer feels as if it might be a kind of ‘whisper-it’ word. I’m asking everyone: including several newsagents whether they have any GF snack bars (they didn’t know what…
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“Gluten free, gluten free,” repeated the female checkout assistant at my local Co-op, after I’d repeated my request. “What is gluten free?” She turned to her male colleague. “Do we have gluten free bread?” He in turn looked at me…
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I woke up early and felt lively. A good sign? If you were reading yesterday, you’ll remember I almost failed the challenge before I’d started it, but today was free of near misses. Turns out I was also being alarmist…
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I almost messed up within a minute of rolling out bed, bleary-eyed. Having brewed up my morning caffeine, I reached into the fridge for my usual milk-replacement of… Oatly. And then realisation jolted me awake: It’s probably not made from…
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Today sees the publication of my book, Coeliac Disease: What you need to know. It has slightly crept up on me, as it was unclear when exactly in May it would hit the shelves, but my publisher has confirmed that…
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I am in the process of recovering from the Allergy and Gluten Free Show, where I worked for three days at the Free From Food Awards stand, promoting both – as well as the spin-off site, Skins Matter, of which I’m…
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Unless I missed it, the hoped-for apology following the comments made by Anthony Demetre on the 9th April’s Saturday Kitchen never materialised on the episode broadcast on the 16th, but last Thursday Demetre did issue a statement via his agent’s…
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I have just received a press release from Wiley Blackwell entitled “Many Restaurant Staff are Undertrained and Misinformed about Food Allergies”. It speaks for itself, really. The release concerns a study published in Clinical and Experimental Allergy and the bare…
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He’s not the UK’s Damian Cardone by any stretch of the imagination, but coeliac chef Anthony Demetre has hardly endeared himself to British and Irish coeliacs this weekend by revealing on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen on the 9th April 2011 that…
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