Product Description

"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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18235 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

From the Back Cover
"Give yourself a treat! Gluten–Free Girl offers delectable tips on living and dining 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 of the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness

"Shauna′s food explodes with flavor—proof positive that people who choose to eat gluten–free can do it with passion and power."
—John La Puma, MD, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The RealAge Diet and Cooking the RealAge Way

Do you, or someone you love, have to avoid certain foods? Imagine passing on the pizza during your honeymoon in Rome, or skipping the sugar cookies your sister makes at Christmas. Shauna James Ahern understands your pain—literally. After years of inexplicable exhaustion and endless medical tests, she found relief in her diagnosis of celiac disease. After giving up gluten, she learned how to live well and love food more fully. Now she can help you do it, too.

In Gluten–Free Girl, Shauna James Ahern shares the journey that changed her from a typical Gen–X processed–food junkie to a fun–loving foodie. She shows you how to say yes to a gluten–free lifestyle and embrace a whole new world of fresh foods and flavors. She shares dozens of recipes everyone will love, like salmon with blackberry sauce, chocolate banana bread, and lemon olive oil cookies.

Part memoir, part best friend giving advice, part cookbook, Gluten–Free Girl will put the spring back in your step and your diet, one delicious meal at a time.

About the Author
Shauna James Ahern shares her stories, photographs, and recipes on her blog, gluttenfreegirl.com. The site, which receives thousands of hits a day, won Global Best Food blog with a Theme in 2006. She has been featured in the New York Times, the Seattle Times, and Newsweek.

Customer Reviews

**LIVING** with coeliac/celiac - not existing
I love Shauna's approach to having coeliac (or celiac - she's American). Rather than treat it as a problem, when she finds out what has been making her sick for so many years she handles gluten-free living with such enthusiasm, experiementing with lots of diferent foods and grains which coeliacs can eat, and writes about it in such a way that makes you want to try it yourself. She pans the typical American way of eating, is very much a "foodie" and tells the reader much about her life (and love)!
For several years she has been writing a food blog 'gluten-free girl' and much of the material is similar - her life, after all! But I still enjoyed the book, although I did expect more recipes, but there are loads on the blog.
So if you, or someone you know has coeliac, and you don't have time to read approx 400 back-blog entries, or if you are interested in food anyway, buy this. You will enjoy it. Oh, and it's very well written. Shauna taught writing before she committed herself to this full-time.

Gluten Free A go-go
This books is fantastic for anyone starting to live a gluten free life. The book is charming, funny in places, and will make you tear up in others. The recipes are fantastic, and the author is amazingly encouraging. I highly recomend it.

I Ate This Book In One Sitting
This is not so much a recipe book as a well written account of Shauna James' extreme experience of celiac disease; from a plump child raised on white bread and ketchup, through extreme illness, to diagnosis with celiac disease. When finally diagnosed, she discovers a hitherto unknown passion for real food and tastes unknown to her.

The book oozes with the sensual feeling she has for each and every food group - except gluten. Scattered through it are recipes for some really great dishes, Fig Newtons were a revelation and the chicken with pomegranate molasses - oh-my-god!

Shauna is single for the most part. On this painful journey and then re-awakening to the wonder of food, she encounters the world like a child. And then she meets the chef and falls absolutely body and soul for him. I challenge you not to weep!

If you have been on the journey to diagnosis with celiac disease this book will tug at your heart strings like no other. Truly inspirational.