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"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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This Book is a MUST read!	Customer Rating:
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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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...

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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	Customer Rating:
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.

Fun, touching, I love the food!	Customer Rating:
As a person who is perfectly capable of eating all the gluten I like, I appreciate the chance to try out some different food choices. I found the stories entertaining and the tone of the book very approachable.