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Good Grains for Gluten Free Living

Like many first diagnosed with Celiac disease, four years ago I struggled to figure out which grains I could eat. In my last semester of graduate school I learned that I was developing Celiac disease myself. While I had learned about the disease in school (after all, I was just a few short months from [...]

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Chemical Cuisine

Chemical Cuisine

Which would you rather eat – the dried apricot that has a slight tinge of brown, is a little dry and is showing signs of sugar crystals forming on the outside of the fruit… OR … the bright orange one – still vibrant despite the bag being opened months ago, plump and juicy with no [...]

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Really Reading the Ingredients

Really Reading the Ingredients

Want to know the single post powerful tool you have for making healthful food choices at the grocery store?  You probably already guessed from the picture above –it’s the ingredients list! About 60% of people completely ignore this little gem of information, usually tucked away in small print on the back of the package. I’m [...]

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Realwashing

After years of “functional food” being popular – people are rightly becoming increasingly skeptical of food being designed by scientists to be healthy.  More and more evidence is coming out supporting the idea that the body is incredibly sophisticated at picking out nutrients and vitamins.  No longer is a vitamin pill equal to an apple [...]

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A Foodie Opens Up on Learning to Cook for Food Allergies

Maybe you’re like me, a foodie at heart, most comfortable in your kitchen, working, experimenting, wrapping your heart into your food.  I have always taken great pleasure in whipping up simple meals, with real ingredients, with my own two hands.   With so many amazing ingredients within my grasp, the sky was the limit as to [...]

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