Looking For French Restaurant Cards

[rozbullard]

Hello! I'm new to this site (and message boards in general) but not new to eating gluten-free. I need some help finding a good gluten-free French restaurant dining card- I'm going to Paris this week for my 30th birthday and don't want to be sick the whole time! I've been looking around for hours online and haven't been able to find anything free and/or with the right info. Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks!

[Guest nini]

Jax Peters-Lowell's book Against the Grain has restaurant dining cards translated in several languages including French

[Guest nini]

maybe you can find a copy in the Library?

[KaitiUSA]

Open Original Shared Link

Here is a link to ones in French...I'm not sure what they say

[Guest nini]

What Kaiti? you don't read French??? LOL! (neither do I!)

[KaitiUSA]

Looks like a bunch of jibberish to me

I speak english fluently so if anyone needs help there i'm your gurl haha

[tarnalberry]

First, I suggest heading over to the delphi forums - there are a couple french speakers over there.

Second, my french is RUSTY, but here's my crack at a translation of what that card says (before someone who actually can speak the language without "er"ing and "um"ing constantly can translate better):

"I suffer from a illness called celiac disease and I must follow a diet absolutely free of gluten. I am susceptible to becoming graveling ill if I eat items which contain wheat or the grains wheat, rye, barly, or oats.

This food, does it contain wheat or the grains of wheat, barley, rye, or oats? If you have the least doubt if these are in the foods, please tell me.

I can eat food which consists of rice, corn, potatoes, vegetables and fruits of all kinds, eggs, cheese, milk, meat and fish, provided it is not coated with wheat flour, fried, have breadcrumbs, or a sauce which contains the items that I can't have.

I thank you for your help."

[rozbullard]

Tiffany,

Thanks for the translation! What are the Delphi Forums? (I'm new to messaging in general...)

Roz

[tarnalberry]

the delphi forums are at www.delphiforums.com/celiac

and a correction to the typo: it's not "susceptible to becoming graveling ill", but rather "gravely ill". :-D I guess I miss "Dead Like Me". :-)