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Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back...And How You Can Too | 
 enlarge | Author: Shauna James Ahern
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
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Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 26329
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0470137304
Dewey Decimal Number: 615.854
EAN: 9780470137307
ASIN: 0470137304
Publication Date: October 5, 2007
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"A delightful memoir of learning to eat superbly while remaining gluten free."
—Newsweek magazine "Give yourself a treat! Gluten-Free Girl offers delectable tips on dining and living with zest–gluten-free. This is a story for anyone who is interested in changing his or her life from the inside out!"
—Alice Bast, executive director National Foundation for Celiac Awareness "Shauna's food, the ignition of healthy with delicious, explodes with flavor—proof positive that people who choose to eat gluten-free can do it with passion, perfection, and power."
—John La Puma, MD, New York Times bestselling co-author of The RealAge Diet and Cooking the RealAge Way "A breakthrough first book by a gifted writer not at all what I expected from a story about living with celiac disease. Foodies everywhere will love this book. Celiacs will make it their bible."
—Linda Carucci, author of Cooking School Secrets for Real World Cooks and IACP Cooking Teacher of the Year, 2002 An entire generation was raised to believe that cooking meant opening a box, ripping off the plastic wrap, adding water, or popping it in the microwave. Gluten-Free Girl, with its gluten-free healthful approach, seeks to bring a love of eating back to our diets. Living gluten-free means having to give up traditional bread, beer, pasta, as well as the foods where gluten likes to hide—such as store-bought ice cream, chocolate bars, even nuts that might have been dusted with flour. However, Gluten-Free Girl shows readers how to say yes to the foods they can eat. Written by award-winning blogger Shauna James, who became a interested in food once she was diagnosed with celiac disease and went gluten-free, Gluten-Free Girl is filled with funny accounts of the author’s own life including wholesome, delicious recipes, this book will guide readers to the simple pleasures of real, healthful food. Includes dozens of recipes like salmon with blackberry sauce, sorghum bread, and lemon olive oil cookies as well as resources for those living gluten-free.
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Delightful and Delicious! December 3, 2008
Debbie Mullins (Paso Robles, Ca.)
The cover of Shauna's book caught my eye right away at the library and, picking it up, I leafed through it quickly. Just reading the end of the title "how I found the food that loves me back...and how you can too" and a few paragraphs instantly convinced me that I wanted to read the stories inside.
I do not suffer from CD as far as I know (although eating too much bread, cake and pasta has never agreed with me physically all that well) but I was interested.
WHAT a find this book was! Intelligently, conversationally written with vivid recounts of life situations; ups, downs, highs, lows and the quest for a richer, healthier, more abundant life and mental attitude with an emphasis on being able to change for the better in spite of difficult circumstance.
Shauna's writing captured me. Very descriptive and detailed yet an easy read I could relate to. I found it hard to put down.
Now I must mention the foods and recipes. Want your mouth to water like a dog eyeing a meaty bone? Well that was the nightly result with her catalog of fine food combinations she discovered and created in detail for you and I to revel in. Chapters are included on spices, vegetables, fruits, grains, oils, vinegars and how to combine them all into meals I never would have imagined (but am imagining now!).
I found her spending of her weekly entertainment money in fine food shops and farmers markets inspiring. What better investment can one make than to fufill and fortify one's body with the beautiful, nutritious foods we were always meant to eat?
One excerpt of her funniest moments was concerning food from her childhood (and mine) and old-fashioned TV dinners containing the "volcanically hot cherry pie dessert". So true, so true.
I have book-marked so many pages of recipes to copy in this book that I need to buy my own. I want to experiment with gluten-free foods because they sound light, delicious, desirable, healthy, satisfying and... seasonal which is a concept I just recently adopted. And because I love to cook for myself and others.
Shauna has opened up the food world for me by glorious leaps and bounds (Blackberry Sauce on Salmon?!?!--gotta try that) and I am grateful that I spied her book in the library that day. I think she's a wonderful and accessible writer.
 This Book is a MUST read! November 17, 2008
Nadine Hassouneh (Amman - Jordan)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
What a wonderful job!
This book gives the feeling of "you are not alone, i am here with you" to anyone diagnosed with Celiac Disease and/or following a Gluten Free diet.
To make a long paragraph short... it is worth reading and it does help a lot.
Read it, you wont regret :)
Best Wishes,
Nadine
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D. White (Keene, NH)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Simultaneously trashing the processed food she grew up on while admitting to buying organic corn chips from whole food, was the first nail in the coffin. She also described her vegetarian phase as a dismal decade and that her body was dying for protein. It is highly unlikely for an American vegetarian, or not to have a protein deficiency. She also bring up the archaic and now debunked myth that you must combine beans and rice at a meal to achieve a "complete" protein. I thought that this book would be based more on her experiences of celiac disease, instead I read about her eating full fat cheese, local milk, organic beef and other trappings of the bourgeoisie. Honestly, the food that she eats is so unhealthy it made me put the book down.
The Ultimate Point... October 26, 2008
WriterMom
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Within the past year, I was finally properly diagnosed with celiac. Even though I was saddened about what the author physically went through prior to diagnosis, I certainly can relate to everything she went through. When I read the book, I suddenly felt less isolated about the whole situation and felt that there was someone who actually understood what it meant to be gluten intolerant. (No person around me had it or could completely understand). I had an attitude turnaround - solely attributed to this book. I started experimenting with her recipes trying new tastes, new textures, new grains, new ways of thinking about food, and hitting the farmers' market. Frankly, I started eating a whole lot better (and through osmosis, so did my family). Speaking of my family, they are very picky eaters, but they have loved everything I have made so far. My husband actually BEGGED me to make the Barbecued Pork with Aromatic Jasmine Rice again. I've been married for over thirty years and, trust me, that's never happened before! (When that happened, I thought for a minute that the Pod People had come and replaced my husband with an enthusiastic model). The recipes, including Rosemary-Lemon Roast Chicken, Blackberry Sauce for Salmon, Shaved Fennel with Lemon Juice, and Popped Amaranth Cereal have become regular ones at our table. I question the taste buds of some reviewers of this book. Insofar as the author's writing prowess - how many books have the reviewers' written? The point is, our views are all subjective here, including mine - and each person is entitled to their own opinion. So, as a matter of record, I feel that the author wrote a fine book that will, undoubtedly, help a lot of people (as it did for me)...and isn't THAT the ultimate point? I highly recommend this book.
Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back...And How You Can Too October 24, 2008
Elliot
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is fantastic. I very much enjoyed reading this book, the way the author writes just makes you want to keep reading. She has several recipes and stories and has lots of information about being gluten free.
If you are having issues with gluten, i highly recommend this book.
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