Blog for 2010

One of the Corporate Food Industry’s major-league players (I worked for a different one), ARAMARK – gets the G-Free message!  In recognition of May being National Celiac Awareness Month, they are serving G-Free meals at the 12 Major League Ballparks they service, HOORAY! I’m...

Can someone please explain to me why Starbucks, the folks who just got on the Gluten-Free snack wagon, would add GLUTEN to their new Frappuccino blend?  Melissa from Coffee City did an article about the issue – thank goodness, because my local barista has no idea what the hell is happening....

I started growing tomatoes in grammar school, in a small flowerbed that was MINE.  I’ve spent the last 20+ years of my life working on tomato-growth mastery, plus engaging in debates on hybrid vs. heirloom, summer salad vs. caprese – the world’s big problems.  I then found...

Use this G-Free Foodie Guide to help navigate the world of Drive-thru & Fast Foods Restaurants. Looking for something more than Fast Food?  Use our Gluten Free Restaurant Search Engine to find places to eat safely G-Free in your area! Arby’s: Many of Arby’s meats, salads...

Use this G-Free Foodie Guide to help navigate the world of Natural Sugars & Sweeteners. Agave Nectar: super-sweet syrup that is a bit thinner than honey, made from sap of the blue agave plant.  Contains more calories per tsp. than sugar, but 2/3 cup of Agave Nectar can be substituted...

My grandpa is an Italian Farmer – like his father before him.  He is a major influence in my life, producing certain behaviors, including but limited to: an irrational fear of the number four, an unending quest to grow perfect tomatoes, the need to plant fruit trees every place I live,...

The question that comes up most when people hear about G-Free Foodie is the same one that comes up when I order a meal after a game of 20 questions:  Why are you doing that? Well, the answer is the same in both cases: because I have to, because it’s what’s best for me. I went on...