FW: Bay Area Celiac News....April 2007

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Cooking classes, meetings, a seminar, a

race, and much more in this newsletter…

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Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007

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Subject: Bay Area Celiac

News....April 2007

BAY AREA CELIAC NEWS....APRIL 2007

MOUNTAIN VIEW EVENT THURSDAY, MAY 3, 7PM

Mid-Peninsula Celiac Support Group Meeting

A new support group led by a Magozzi will have

the first meeting at the home of Rohlfs in downtown

Mountain View

at 7pm, Thursday, May 3. The address

is 645 Sierra Avenue.

A simple vegetarian, gluten and

dairy free meal will be served. (Suggested donation $5)

The intention for the group is to support each other in

making the gluten free lifestyle as fun as possible. Some

proposed ideas are recipe exchange meetings, speakers,

cooking/baking demos, meals out, etc.

If you are interested please email a Magozzi

dmagozzi@...

(650-215-8715)

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SAN FRANCISCO

SEMINAR FRIDAY, MAY 4, 6:30PM

The Inflammatory Bowel

Diseases Center

at California

Pacific Medical

Center presents

A Patient Education Seminar on Celiac Disease

Friday, May 4, 6:30-8PM

Cathedral Hill Hotel, El Dorado Room, Mezzanine Level

1101 Van Ness (near Geary)

Special Guest speaker Dr. Pietzack

Assistant Professor, University

of Southern California

Keck School of Medicine,

Los Angeles

This seminar is open to all patients and their families.

Admission is free. Please visit the hotel web site

http://www.cathedralhillhotel.com/location.htm

for maps and directions. Parking is $5.00 per vehicle

with validation for up to 4 hours.

Contact if further information needed:

Boyd, Administrative Secretary,

Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Physician Foundation at Calif

Pacific Medical

Center

2340 Clay Street, suite 308

San Francisco, CA 94115

(415)600-8617

(415)600-1191 fax

BoydE@...

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NORTH BAY CELIAC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN UPDATE

SONOMA COUNTY HUMAN RACE MAY 12

Contact: Iscol, 707-824-5830, iscol@...

The North Bay Celiacs Team will participate in the

Sonoma County Human Race on May 12 in Santa

. Our team has already raised over $2,100 to

cover the costs of improving celiac awareness in the

North Bay medical

community, the general public,

restaurants and grocery stores. Join us by walking

with us behind the banner " Gluten-Free in Wine Country, "

running the actual race, or just come by our table in the

Human Race Marketplace from 7-11AM to sample free

goodies from our donors and sponsors, including

Celiac.com/GlutenFreeMall.com,

's Gone Crackers,

Running Rabbit Licorice/Sonoma Specialty Kitchens,

Sylvan Border Farm,

Blue Diamond Nut-Thins,

and others. We will also be distributing literature on

celiac disease and the gluten free diet. The Marketplace

is behind Herbert Slater Middle School

in Santa .

Call the Volunteer Center of Sonoma County for

directions and parking info: 707-573-3399.

Contact if you would like to meet up with our team.

If you would like to make a donation to our awareness

campaign, go to http://humanrace.kintera.org/northbayceliacs

or send a check made out to " The Human Race " to

Iscol, 7491 Kennedy Rd.,

Sebastopol, CA

95472.

We welcome donations of any size, even teeny tiny little

ones, or just notes of support. We are affiliated with the

Celiac Sprue Research Foundation and the Celiac

Disease Foundation, and donations are tax-deductible.

Feel free to call me with questions at 707-824-5830

or write to iscol@....

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MARIN CELIAC SUPPORT GROUP

NEXT MEETING SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 10AM

On Saturday, March 31 nine fellow Celiacs met for

the first time at Flour Chylde in Novato.

We introduced

ourselves, discussed our diagnosis (or lack there of),

and shared tips about where to eat and what we would

like to do in the future.

Our next meeting is set for Saturday, June 2 at Flour

Chylde in Novato

at 10AM. We also plan to meet in

August (date TBD). Our group is open to any Celiac

in Marin (and beyond). If you are interested please

contact Belingheri at Bel@....

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GLUTEN FREE COOKING CLASSES

FRIDAY, MAY 25, 6:30-8:30PM

" A Gluten Free Night in Tuscany "

Los Altos Whole

Foods

4800 El Camino Real Los Altos, CA 94022

Taught by Celiac and personal chef, a Magozzi,

and Guy, who has catered the Stanford Celiac

Conference for several years and sold gluten free baked

goods at local cafes.

This is a repeat class for those who were on the waiting

list for the first class offered last February. Class includes

hands on training in how to put together a multiple-course

Italian dinner that is naturally gluten free. Class also

includes lots of sampling and wine. To register please

call 650-559-0300 or go to www.wholefoods.com.

A new class will be offered at Los Altos Whole Foods

on Tuesday, June 14, 6:30-8:30PM, with details soon

to follow: " Gluten Free Pizza Making and Beer Sampling "

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MONDAY, JUNE 11, 6:30PM

The Wheat-Free, Gluten-Free Cook

$50 Demo

Draegers Cooking School San

Mateo (class# SM0611)

222 East Fourth Ave.,

San Mateo, CA 94401

http://www.draegers.com/DCS-summer07/Classes/SingleSubjects.html

Mallorca created and wrote the first

-Sonoma catalog and still writes for them

today. She was Beards West Coast editorial

assistant for several years and has been published

in numerous culinary publications. She has also

written, co-authored, illustrated or edited 12 cookbooks.

Menu:

Rice Flour and Almond Flatbread

Decadent, Two-Bite Teff Brownies

Almond and Lemon Cake

Quinoa Salad with Cucumber, Tomato and Mint

To register, please go to www.draegers.com/DCS

or

(650) 685-3704

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2007 CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION ANNUAL

EDUCATION CONFERENCE AND FOOD FAIRE

SATURDAY, MAY 19, 8:30AM-4PM

Good Samaritan

Hospital, Los Angeles, CA

Visit www.celiac.org to register.

Early registration ends April 30.

This year's program has something for everyone.

From the future of enzyme therapy to genetic testing;

the connection between our teeth and mouth and CD;

the latest on what is gluten free to how to cope with

being celiac. Our distinguished speakers include:

Chaitan Khosla, PhD, research scientist

Levario, JD, Director, American Celiac

Disease Alliance

Ted Malahias, DDS

Ottenstein, PhD, psychologist

Annette , PhD

Presenting A TASTE OF GLUTEN-FREE:

demonstrations and food tasting from top gluten free

bakers and chefs. In addition, there will be a

supervised children's program for children 5 and

older and lunch time sessions with Calvo, RD,

child psychologist Shahbaznia Alvarez, PhD

and sessions for the newly diagnosed and Young

Adults. Pietzak, MD, The Gluten-Free MD,

will have her two audio CD set and newly released

DVD available for sale.

For more information contact the CDF office at

818-990-2354 or visit the website www.celiac.org

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NOTE ON THE STANFORD CELIAC CONFERENCE:

Rohlfs has announced that she is unable to

offer the 8th annual celiac conference at Stanford

this year. Due to construction projects on campus

the facility used in the past is no longer available,

and she has not been able to identify other options.

will continue to work with the Celiac Sprue

Research Foundation and offer support when needed,

but she has requested that others take over the

responsibilities of organizing celiac events in the

Palo Alto/Stanford area.

We thank for her many years of volunteer

work for the Bay Area Celiacs and for organizing

the Stanford Conference for 7 years, beginning in

2000, as well as many meetings and events that

brought celiacs together for information, friendship,

and of course gluten free food!

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Link to local recipes:

Vic Dolcourt of Sunnyvale

writes that he and his wife

Hallie (not a celiac) are always happy to talk to people

and meet them. Vic likes to bake bread and shares

recipes on his web site:

http://home.comcast.net/~vhdolcourt/bread

(email vhdolcourt@...)

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More summer camp information (New

Mexico):

The Intestinal Health Institute (Dr Fine) is

pleased to announce the second annual Get On A

Mission Of Nutrition Gluten-Free Family Camp,

July 1-6, in Jemez Springs,

NM.

For more information please visit

http://www.intestinalhealth.org/Camp

or email camp@...

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SURVEY FROM WHARTON

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

MBA students at Wharton (University

of Pennsylvania) are

working on a project developing food and beverage products

for celiacs. They have asked for our participation in a survey.

The survey will help a company specializing in Quinoa and

Amaranth based gluten free products decide what products

to introduce next. The survey is entirely confidential and takes

about 10 minutes to complete. Go to the following link and

follow instructions. There is a chance to win a $20 Starbucks

gift card if you complete the survey and enter the lucky draw.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=245633756537

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MESSAGE FROM DANNA KORN, R.O.C.K. FOUNDER

As many of you know, People Magazine is doing a story about

celiac disease, and featuring some of the work I've done to

help people live (and love!) a gluten-free lifestyle.

Are there any of you who I've helped who have not yet responded

to me? If I've helped you in any way -- my books, on the phone,

through ROCK, speaking engagements -- please let me know

TODAY -- they're wrapping the story up today and tomorrow.

THANK YOU!

Danna (Wed, April 25)

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NOTE TO ALL BAY AREA CELIACS:

This mailing list was established many years ago, long before

Martha arrived in CA (and the internet) to connect celiacs living

in the San Francisco

region. There have been so many dedicated

volunteers working to help others learn the wonderful mysteries

of the gluten free diet, and we thank them all. As we all know,

our disease has become more popular, and new people are

joining us all the time. We welcome the enthusiasm of the

newly diagnosed and we encourage all of you interested in

making contributions to our local celiac community to contact

any of the people listed below to ask about opportunities to

volunteer. Of course any of you can decide to organize a

meeting or social gathering, and it can be announced in this

news....but it may be easier to arrange to work with others.

We do have someone working on bringing our web site up to

date, and we have heard from new people who want to start

groups. Many thanks! We look forward to new excitement

in our Bay Area Celiac world....in medical research, in new

eating adventures, and in new friendships among celiacs!

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Local Celiac Contacts:

Oakland

Ellen Switkes, 510-655-0215, ellen@...

East Bay/Tri-Valley ROCK

Ann Reigelman, areigelman@...

Berkeley

Schinnerer, 510-524-3774, jamesoutwest@...

Stanford/Palo Alto

Rohlfs, 650-625-1708 (home-evenings only), no email

a Magozzi 650-215-8715,

dmagozzi@...

Santa Clara Kaiser Group

Barbara Dodson, Barbara.dodson@...

San

Hersom, 408-723-0804, susan.hersom@...

Santa Cruz

Pam Newbury, 831-423-6904, pknewbury@...

North Bay

Iscol, 707-824-5830, iscol@...

Napa

Ann Lowe, 707-224-1469, madlowe@...

Quarterly meetings on the 3rd Saturday of the month

The next meeting will be on July 21.

Marin

Trudy Verzosa, 415-350-1244,

tverzosa@...

group Gluten-Free in Marin:

glutenfreeinmarin/

Margaret Fearey Walsh, msfw@...

Board member, National Foundation for Celiac Awareness

http://www.celiaccentral.org/

Santa

Chrysa Caulfield, DC 707-575-9009, DrCaulfield@...

Sacramento

Joan Leforestier 916-487-3459, oscar368@...

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