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Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back...And How You Can Too | 
| Author: Shauna James Ahern
Publisher: Wiley
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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You Save: $13.28 (53%)
Rating:  59 reviews
Media: Hardcover
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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Product Description
"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 ainterested in foodonce she was diagnosed with celiac disease and went gluten-free, Gluten-Free Girlis 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 recipeslike salmon with blackberry sauce, sorghum bread, and lemon olive oil cookies as well as resources for those living gluten-free.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 54 more reviews...
 Good for you Chick Lit July 16, 2008
Karin A. Rex (Lansdale, PA USA)
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
I downloaded the sample of this book on my Kindle ONLY because I'd been hearing about gluten-free this and gluten-free that and I knew nothing about the topic. I ended up enjoying the writing so much that I bought the book and further educated myself. I have no medical need to be gluten free, but I enjoy reading about food and this was just a plain good read -- chick lit that is good for you!
Gluten- free eating advice June 18, 2008
S. Axelrod
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
Great reading for those recently diagnosed with gluten sensitivity. A writing style that is pleasing and informative, with recipes that are original and enticing. Recommended reading.
The support I needed May 28, 2008
S. A. Linnert (Melbourne, FL United States)
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
I felt as if this book (and the writer) understood my life as a person devoted to foods who just so happens to have an allergy to gluten. Before reading this book, I felt alone in this disease. People seemed to have made the assumption that I was a freak who could not enjoy good eating. I believed them, that is, before I read this book.
If you are diagnosed with celiac disease or gluten intolerance, please read this book! In it you will find:
-how to embrace life and food in a way that you never thought was possible again.
-how to find grains that are naturally gluten-free.
-the importance of sticking to a gluten free living if you are diagnosed with a condition that prevents you from eating gluten.
-where gluten can be hiding.
-and the kinship of someone who is undergoing the same problems you are.
I didn't need an exhaustive recipe list that contained gluten free dishes. That is something I could find at any natural food market store. No, what I needed was support. Previous to reading this book, being gluten free meant living a solitary life where I had to face food allergy issues alone. Just from reading this book, I regained my passion for food, and I found the gumption to ask for gluten free dishes at restaurants.
As a side note, someone wrote that her descriptions of food from her childhood was senseless, but I don't believe it was. From my perspective, she was comparing a life that did not have any food restraints to the life she leads now that does contain diet restrictions. Ironically, the life she lead when gluten was allowed did not satisfy her stomach or palate. Once gluten was nixed from her life, she found freedom in eating foods that she would have traditionally avoided. I don't think this makes her bratty. She found her food identity in an unexpected place, a place she would have never imagined: gluten-free living.
Hits Home for Me May 18, 2008
Shirley Braden (King George, VA United States)
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have followed Shauna James Ahern's blog for over a year now. I heard her speak at the GIG conference in 2007 and was able to speak to her briefly. She's a genuine, engaging, and delightful person. So, I was anxious to read her book. My local bookstore didn't have a copy, so a friend loaned me hers and asked me to write any comments I had in the margin. (My friend was anxious to read my impressions.) I was diagnosed with gluten intolerance in 2003 after a lifetime of symptoms/illnesses. So, I found myself reading the book and saying aloud and writing in the margin, "Yes!", "That is so true.", etc. Shauna's journey to gluten-free parallels my own in that after years of numerous illness and many misdiagnoses I was absolutely thrilled to get a diagnosis. Like Shauna, once I got over the brief shock of what I could no longer eat, I focused on all the wonderful foods I could eat. I always tell folks that "real" food (think whole food) is naturally gluten free--meat, seafood, fruit, and veggies. Then there's even more food that's naturally gluten free (like most dairy) and one can make wonderful, simple recipes using GF ingredients. Shauna intersperses her fabulous recipes throughout her book. Her book is much like her blog--filled with honest, heartfelt storytelling and both a journal and a celebration of food and life. It's a quick, joyful read ... don't miss it!
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