Product Description

Darina Allen uses her wealth of culinary experience to prove that gluten-free eating need not mean boring food. Darina and Rosemary have created over 100 tempting gluten-free dishes, including those that usually contain gluten, for example, chicken and tarragon pie, buckwheat lasagne, ricotta, spinach and parmesan tart, apple tart, tiramisu, chocolate brownies, soda bread , banana bread and granola. There are recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner, soups and salads as well as breads and cakes-making it the only gluten-free cookbook you will ever need.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21199 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

About the Author
Darina Allen is Ireland's favourite food ambassador. She runs the world-renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School in Ireland which she founded in 1983, and holds several cookery demonstrations for coeliacs at the school. Previous books include the award-winning 'Irish Traditional Cooking', 'A year at Ballymaloe' and 'Darina Allen's Ballymaloe Cookery Course' Darina lectures and travels extensively, and her outstanding work as both teacher and cook has placed her firmly on the international culinary map. Rosemary Kearney runs her own catering business, Rosemary & Thyme. She has a degree in Food Science and has trained as a chef at the Ballymaloe Cookery School. She now teaches annual cooking courses for coeliacs at Ballymaloe, which are regularly oversubscribed. Coeliac UK is a national charity that supports coeliacs and other patients whose quality of life can be improved by following a gluten-free diet. It is committed to provide information, educate people and promote and commission research into coeliac disease.

Customer Reviews

A Reliable and Inspiring Book for Gluten-Free Eating
This is a great cookbook for anyone who eats gluten-free.
The majority of these recipes are reliably excellent. Particularly for the bread and baked recipes.
Only the crumpet recipe didn't work out so well. Still delicious just not very crumpet like.
I would particularly recommend the recipes for soda bread, tomato bread, banana bread and pancake mix.
The book is well presented and easy to follow.
A gem in the world of hit and miss gluten-free cooking.

Gluten Free But Not in ANY way healthy - Totally misleading
This healthiness of this book extends no further than it coming close to a photograph containing a piece of onion on the cover! Healthy gluten free cooking...unless you live on a diet of dips and soup this is NOT in any way healthy and should be avoided like the plague

My personal trainer fiance has recently been diagnosed with a wheat/gluten allergy and so desperate to serve something other than lean grilled chicken and vegetables i invested in some 'healthy' gluten free cookbooks. I may as well not have bothered, whilst all the recipies meet gluten dietary requirements and look relatively appetising there isn't a single main dish in here that i can or would want to persuade him to try. They are all way to high in salt sugar and saturated fat. The worst offender contained 31g of saturated fat per portion, well above the 20g RDA - unless your not planning to eat anything else for a day and a half how is this healthy?? Many dishes contained well above the RDA of saturates per portion. How Coeliac UK can support this utter nonsense is beyond me, i initially was really impressed to see solutions for wheat free mince pies and other classic dishes, however they shouldn't come at the expense of your health. Coeliac UK should be trying to help people find credible and healthy alternatives to gluten intolerance, however this book is nothing short of grossly misleading and falsely advertised. It gives me serious doubts on the quality of information they provide and what authority they are making their decisions if this is what they deem as healthy.

SLightly disappointing
My 8 year old daughter has just been diagnosed with celiac and got this book to give me some insperation has to what to give her. It was full of good information regarding the disease but found some of the recipes a bit too fancy for a normal family meal.