FW: SF Bay Area Celiac News....March 2007

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News....March 2007

SF BAY AREA CELIAC NEWS.......MARCH 2007

NORTH BAY EVENT THIS SATURDAY MARCH 31

Northern Marin (Novato)

Celiac Support Group Meeting

A new Celiac support group has a meeting scheduled for:

Saturday, March 31st at 10AM

Flour Chylde 850 Grant Avenue, Novato

(415) 328-5522

If you live in Marin and would like to attend please contact

Belingheri at Bel@....

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SANTA CRUZ

SATURDAY APRIL 7

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

The next meeting of the Santa Cruz Celiac Support Group

will be on Saturday, April 7, at 11am in meeting room 1 at

Dominican Hospital, 1555 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz.

The scheduled speaker cannot attend. For more information

please contact Pam.

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NORTH BAY CELIACS LUNCHEON APRIL 15

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

Our next support group gathering will be a luncheon at 1pm

on Sunday, April 15, at the home of one of our members in

Santa .

This will be a potluck; please bring a gluten-free

item to share, and an ingredient list or recipe. Feel free to

come without a dish if you are new to celiac disease.

CELIAC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN and the HUMAN RACE

MAY 12TH: We need your support! Our celiac support group

will be participating as a team in the Sonoma County Human

Race on the morning of May 12 in Santa

to raise money

for our Celiac Awareness Campaign, and to raise awareness by

being out there. The goal of our campaign is to increase awareness

in our region about celiac disease and the gluten-free diet in the

medical community, the general public, and grocery stores and

restaurants. On Human Race day, most of us will be strolling

along, not running or jogging, so people of all ages and athletic

abilities are welcome to join us for all or part of it. We plan to

have a banner that reads " Gluten-Free in Wine Country. "

Celiacs from around the bay are more than welcome to join us.

If you can't make it to the Human Race, but would like to show

your support, please consider an online donation to our campaign:

Go to http://humanrace.kintera.org/northbayceliacs.

Pledges of

any amount will cheer us on. The money will be held by

Stanford's Celiac Sprue Research Foundation for the purpose of

our awareness campaign.

For more info on any of these North

Bay activities, please

email at iscol@... or call her at 707-824-5830.

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NEW SUPPORT GROUP IN NAPA,

APRIL 21

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

Napa Celiacs are now holding quarterly meetings on the

3rd Saturday of the month with leader Ann Lowe.

The next meeting will be on April 21 at 10am, at the Queen

of the Valley Hospital, 1000 Trancas St., Napa.

We are

hoping to go from there to our local Raley's store for a tour

of their gluten free goods.

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SANTA CLARA KAISER GROUP APRIL 25

Contact: Barbara Dodson, Barbara.dodson@...

Our next Celiac Support meeting will be Wednesday,

April 25 from 6-8 pm in meeting room A-5 on the first

floor of the Kaiser Medical Office Building, 710 Lawrence

Expressway, Santa Clara. The Medical Office Building

is

the large building on the corner at Homestead.

We are a

Pediatric GI Specialty Clinic and therefore focus on the

needs of our younger patients and their families. Adults

and anyone interested in Celiac Disease are welcome.

You do not need to be a member or Kaiser to attend.

We have been asked to discuss the proposed Gluten

Free Labeling Law proposed by the FDA, and also Iron

and Calcium needs. We have time for more

" Questions for the Doc's " , so if there is something

you would like addressed, please let us know.

I have invited to attend and give us a

pharmacy update.

Please bring the children and teens! We love seeing

them and we will have activites for them during the first

half of our meeting.

If you would like to bring a GF dessert or appetizer

(include a list of the ingredients...no oats please) to

share, we love trying new foods. I do have some GF

products for you to try as well.

Please RSVP to Barbara, Barbara.dodson@...

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Note from Rohlfs, Stanford:

Babycakes sells gluten free chocolate pudding (rich

like fudge), flourless chocolate cake, and mousse at

Red Rock Coffee Shop, 201 Castro

St. in Mountain

View.

Babycakes also does custom orders:

www.babycakesdesserts.com ,

408-621-8566 (talk to ).

It's one of the few coffee shops that has a dessert we can eat,

and they're really good.

is open to making other GF

products; we just need to request them.

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NEW CELIAC COOKBOOK FROM DISTINGUISHED

LOCAL FOOD WRITER JACQUELINE MALLORCA:

THE WHEAT-FREE COOK

(Morrow Cookbooks, $24.95, on sale 3/13/07)

Mallorca, Beard's West Coast editorial

assistant for

several years and a renowned food writer in her own right,

discovered she was gluten intolerant more than a decade

ago. " When I was told I could no longer eat wheat in any

form, " says the author, " I was taken aback. And the diet

sheet I was given seemed calculated to bring on severe

depression. Torn between outrage and laughter, I decided

that if life had handed me a lemon, I was going to fight back.

I'd cook it. "

And that's exactly what she did but instead of stopping at

her luscious Almond Flour and Lemon Cake, Mallorca mined

cuisines and ingredients from England to Ethiopia to create

Spiced Apple Crumble, Toasted Quinoa Muesli, Asian-inspired

Corn Fritters, Rice Fettuccine with Arugula and Goat Cheese,

creamy Chestnut Soup with chicken croutons, decadent Teff

Brownies, and over 100 other gluten-free dishes for every

occasion.

Anyone unsure of how savory and tantalizing gluten-free

cooking can be needs only to compare everyday sauteed

chicken breasts coated in stale boxed bread crumbs to

Mallorca's, which are coated in ground hazelnuts and

Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese. Skeptics will become

converts when they taste dishes such as: Creamy Tomato

and Egg Curry, Braised Short Ribs with Sun-Dried Tomatoes,

Nut-Crusted Salmon with Mustard Cream Sauce, Chicken

and Quinoa, Moroccan style Goat Cheese Pizza with Rice

Flour Crust, Chocolate Eclairs

Its impossible to feel deprived when eating this inventive

cook's gluten-free hearth breads and baguettes, crusty

on the outside and light within, not to mention elegant

nut-flour cakes and pastries that would grace any

boutique bakery.

While supermarkets are stocking more and more

gluten-free products, grocery shopping can still be

daunting for those avoiding wheat. Mallorca

demystifies

the search and lists versatile alternatives, including:

Flaxmeal, one of the most nutritious plant foods

Whole grain rice flour, workhorse of the gluten-free kitchen

Quinoa, the " mother grain " of the Inca empire

Gluten-free oats (regular kind are often contaminated with

gluten in facilities that also manufacture wheat products)

Gluten-free spaghetti, fettucine, spirals and penne

Whether for food aficionados with celiac disease, those

with a wheat allergy, or simply health-conscious cooks

looking for a delicious new approach, THE WHEAT-FREE

COOK proves that there is indeed a world beyond wheat.

Note: Jackie will be giving a gluten-free cooking demo at

Draeger's in San Mateo

on June 11, 2007 at 6:30 pm.

More details later.

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Other Local Celiac Contacts:

Oakland

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

Stanford/Palo Alto

Rohlfs, 650-868-2315, krohlfs@...

East Bay/Tri-Valley ROCK

Ann Reigelman, areigelman@...

Bay Area R.O.C.K.

Velez, 650-216-6405,

kelly.velez@...

Berkeley

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

San

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

Marin

Trudy Verzosa, 415-350-1244,

tverzosa@...

Santa

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

Sacramento

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

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