Excellent Chronicle article re: cd

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What a lovely surprise to read the Chronicle's article " Overcoming the

hurdles of gluten intolerance, " by n Nestle, and find it to be a

fairly comprehensive and completely accurate introduction to celiac

disease. My only concerns include the references to those with celiac

not being able to eat the non-specific " flour, " and " bread, pasta,

crackers, " when, as we all know, there are many flours and gf breads,

etc., we can eat; and that the author spoke with a school chef who for

some reason hasn't been able to come up with a tasty gf cookie recipe,

when, in my experience, anyway, it is easy to substitute gf flours in

cookie recipes and the results are delicious; and the chef's inability

to find a gf bread substitute for sandwiches, so he uses a lettuce leaf

as a wrap, instead. Hmph, healthier maybe, but gf sandwich bread does

exist!

In any case, it is well written, well researched, and includes great

sympathy for how hard it is to " navigate the minefields of our food

production, labeling and institutional systems. "

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/31/FDTT17NK4F.DTL

Tristan