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ARCHIVED Fabulous Gluten-Free Baked Goods In Cambridge, Ma
Laura replied to Laura's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants
Ugh! So much for that -- the arrangement with Darwin's has fallen through ... hopefully the Violette baked goods will be going to another coffee shop, restaurant, or bakery soon. -
ARCHIVED Fabulous Gluten-Free Baked Goods In Cambridge, Ma
Laura posted a topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants
Last summer, when I moved to Cambridge, I stumbled on a gluten-free bakery called Violette and I fell in love. But it lost its space, and for a while the woman who owned it had been doing special orders only. Now she's selling her product out of Darwin's Ltd, a coffee shop on Cambridge Street not far from Harvard Square (heads up: there's another Darwin's... -
This place was new to me and I searched and didn't see anything on it in the forum. Pizza place called Keste in New York City literally right across the street from Risotteria on Bleecker St. Unlike Risotteria, it's only pizza and salads. Here's what I'd say: The pizza was outstanding. Astonishingly good. The service ... not so much. First off...
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If you like Malaysian food (similarities to Chinese and Thai), there's a great place in Chatham, NJ that has quite a few gluten-free options -- they have a printed-up gluten-free menu and at least some of the staff know enough to explain how they altered the dishes to be ok. My best friend lives in Chatham and I eat there whenever I visit her: Open Original...
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Before I was diagnosed, we used to eat at Virgil's BBQ sometimes when we were in NYC and loved it. But when I went gluten-free, I stopped eating there because their barbecue sauce contained soy sauce. Recently, though, my mom suggested we eat there and I thought it was worth a try to see if they'd changed the menu in the past six or eight years, so I looked...
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Chipotle is a good bet in a lot of places -- just get the burrito bowl. Edited to add: Remember that the Canadian Celiac Association did a study finding that even blue cheeses started with gluten-containing media don't have detectable levels of gluten. Open Original Shared Link
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Adding my vote to everyone who said Five Guys and In N Out. So, so good, and since it's just straight-up potato and they don't have anything else deep-fried, you know what you're getting.
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A couple months back, in a travel thread on Washington DC, someone mentioned Open Original Shared Link as a gluten-free-friendly restaurant. In just these few months, Dino has gone from being a place where the waiters were well-informed and happy to talk to you about your needs to a place with a clearly-marked menu. The menu now marks things according...
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Churchkey, a new bar in Washington DC, offers gluten-free flatbreads. I've had two of them -- the pulled pork was awesome, kind of like an open-face cuban sandwich, almost, with mustard and pickle slices. The BLT pizza one was a bit less successful, but still pretty good. The bread part seems more garbanzo based, a little on the hearty side. The most...
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Has anyone else gone to Hello Cupcake in DC? It's pretty new, right on Dupont Circle. They have one gluten-free cupcake each day, and the cake is fabulous. The only problem is, it's almost always either carrot cake or, now that it's fall, pumpkin cake. Which I was happy with the first couple times I got it, but eventually it's like, sheesh, celiacs also...
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ARCHIVED Contaminated Rice Protein?
Laura posted a topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
A friend just sent me this: Has anyone heard anything else about this? Is it for sure, or just speculative? What products might be affected, and over what time period (that is, a baking mix I'd had on my shelf for 6 weeks would probably be fine, right)? -
I'm wondering if celiacs can register as bone marrow or stem cell donors? The websites I've found with general guidelines for who can donate say that people with autoimmune conditions generally can't, but then some of them exempt certain ones. But never mention celiac. A friend's brother-in-law just died of leukemia and I'd really like to register...
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The thing about IBS is, it's a diagnosis that usually means "gosh, there sure is something wrong with your GI system, but we don't really know what it is." For some people, that's the lifelong diagnosis - no explanation ever gets uncovered, and the fact that they can't explain it doesn't make it any less miserable. But it's definitely worth looking for...
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ARCHIVED How Soon After Eating Gluten Do You Fall Ill?
Laura replied to againstthegrain's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
Ok, I loved this. And it is so exactly my experience. Chain reaction in the intestines...I feel a little rumble, the kind that might be nothing but then it builds into this sensation of, like, motion, and then like you say everything drops two inches - perfect description! And "very bad poo." Boy howdy! Perfect, and fabulous, way to put it. -
ARCHIVED What Is Your Most Fav.......
Laura replied to mrsnj91's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
Bob's Red Mill pancake mix Pamela's brownie mix Glutino flax seed bread Gluten-Free Pantry chocolate cake mix In most grocery stores, Pamela's chocolate chip cookies are my favorite. But my favorite cookies I've bought anywhere were the frozen Celiac Specialties ones. I'm not 100% decided on a yellow cake mix...maybe Kinnikinnick. I haven't found... -
ARCHIVED Outback And Bleu Cheese
Laura replied to kkn's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
Gluten-Free Living magazine did a whole story on cheeses, with a sidebar on blue cheeses, and concluded that the cheeses themselves are safe. The worst-case scenario found was .00274 mg of gluten if you ate like a quarter pound of blue cheese, and especially given that nobody eats that much blue cheese, their medical advisor felt it was fine. -
ARCHIVED Viactiv Soft Chews
Laura replied to nik-ed's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
I've had them. They taste pretty good and I certainly never had any gluten problems from them. One thing to watch is that if you eat too many - I think if you take in too much calcium in general - you can get constipated. A friend of my mom's did that right after she was diagnosed with osteoporosis and really messed herself up for several days! But I... -
I'm starting to have it. Like, every winter I get one or two little spots, plus on my scalp. But I know that heredity is going to nail me on this one. BOTH my parents and BOTH my grandmothers have/had bad psoriasis. I've never heard that they've established a firm link between celiac and psoriasis, but on the other hand the belief is that psoriasis is...
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ARCHIVED How Do Your Loved Ones Deal With Your Celiac?
Laura replied to Laura's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
Oh, this is a really good thought! Thank you. I think you might be right in at least one case, and I don't know why I didn't think of it before. People talking about their family members either already being celiac or refusing to be tested reminds me of one other thing about my mom: I think she should be tested, and she won't be. Now, her doctor did... -
ARCHIVED Vinegar
Laura replied to ebrbetty's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
Malt vinegar is definitely not safe; others should be. -
ARCHIVED House Tv Show Will Feature Celiac Disease
Laura replied to irish's topic in Publications & Publicity
Oh, wow! My friend keeps telling me I should watch that show...now I will, at least once. Keep reminding us, so I remember to program the vcr? Oh, argh! It's the same time as Veronica Mars!!! Must tape both!!!! This is going to be complicated - have to have my parents tape one and tape the other at my apartment. So much to remember! -
ARCHIVED What Exactly Is Celiac?
Laura replied to None's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
Well, I'm no scientist, and I'm just basically giving you my simplified and possibly not totally right version of what it says in Celiac Disease: A Hidden Epidemic (otherwise known as my new Bible). So your small intestine is being damaged - the book describes it as being "much like what happens to skin that has been burned" so that "the intestine becomes... -
ARCHIVED How Do Your Loved Ones Deal With Your Celiac?
Laura posted a topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
I'm thinking about this question of how friends and family respond to a diagnosis of celiac disease and a gluten-free diet largely in response to Mo92109's topic on her friend who tells her she's a hypochondriac. Since we all have a lot of people in our lives, we experience many different responses, and I've often tried categorizing them in my mind, so that... -
Totally! But even better if you pry the cookies apart, sprinkle a little salt in, and put them back together and eat it that way. Get one to go, too! If they have cake when you're there, I'm going to be wicked jealous, though, because they never have when I've been there. The brownies are moister than they look, but as someone somewhere here said, taste...
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When I make my own teriyaki, rather than honey I use mirin, which is a sweet rice wine. I find that it give that characteristic type of teriyaki sweetness better than anything else. One heads-up - some kinds of mirin have soy sauce in them, so read labels.