Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back...And How You Can Too

Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back...And How You Can Too
by Shauna James Ahern

Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back...And How You Can Too
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Author: Shauna James Ahern
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-05
ISBN: 0470137304
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Wiley

Book Reviews of Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back...And How You Can Too

Book Review: Worth the read; two big flaws
Summary: 3 Stars

I love food and like to read about it, and I read this book in about two days. Ahern's descriptions of food are a real treat; as I read them I thought, "Hey, that's EXACTLY what that food tastes like." I also could relate a lot to her experience of growing up on a bland American diet and discovering new tastes in adulthood.

Her attitude about eating gluten-free is very good - I have researched many a restrictive diet and gluten-free seems most intimidating. She chooses to see the glass as half-full and looks at her restrictions as a gift that opened up a whole new world of food and healthy living.

The first problem with the book is there are not enough recipes. It's really more of a food memoir. The few recipes that are provided are not really mindful that a lot of GF eaters also need to avoid other allergens. I wish I could have combed through a book chock full of her recipes, culling out those that are also dairy, egg, and nut free.

The second problem with the book is Ahern's writing style. There is an arrogance that distances the reader. I'm sure this is more a function of being a first-born and child of a professor rather than a real personality flaw, but it's pretty hard to take at times. (Like when she tells about the proper pronunciation of quinoa then triumphantly proclaims something like, "We learn something new everyday." As if most of her readers didn't know how to pronounce quinoa). The other thing that drives me crazy about her writing is her overuse of the comma (,) as a literary tool. She puts commas in like too many crushed peppercorns and it is distracting!

The flaws cost a star each, but I still recommend it, especially to people on any kind of restricted diet.

Summary of Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back...And How You Can Too

"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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