It's the holiday season, which means someone gave you cookies (or maybe you baked), and you, being the nice person you are, have decided to share them with your co-workers ( Read more... )

Seth Ellis Chocolatier

Wow.

ETA: These guys also make sunbutter cups, so for anyone allergic to sunflower, the xcontamination risk is probably equivalent to that of any more traditional chocolatier (damnit!). But I figure they're a useful resource if you're just looking for PN / TN free.

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(xposted to nopeanut_adults)

I recently stumbled across Home Free Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies for the first time. They're a little spendy--works out to almost $1 per cookie--but oh, my god, they're delicious. They label incredibly carefully, specify risks, and in addition to being PN and TN free, are made in a sesame-free facility. Allergy ( Read more... )

1. If a package says "allergy free" or "allergen free," what does this mean about the product ( Read more... )

I love granola bars, but there are no commercially available brands that I can safely eat: the few types that are nut-free all contain either sunflower, sesame, or both. Fortunately, I hang out at a forum populated largely by other people with equivalently fun combinations of food allergies, many of whom are chock full of useful information-- ( Read more... )

Is there some secret fad, to which I am not privy, of my favorite 'villains starting cooking blogs? First there was touchofscarlet, with Full Gastronomic Tilt; now another good friend has started up Another Diabetic Feminist's Baking Blog, which is pretty much exactly what the title implies. Both are excellent blogs, by the way, by folks who are both excellent ( Read more... )

Whoa! My friend Leigh has a really kickass new food and cooking blog, which you should go check out, especially if you're in the Asheville area (Leigh is a compendium of wisdom on good local eatin', although thus far she has neglected my very most favorite Asheville restaurant. That's okay, though--there's always a really long wait ( Read more... )

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Glossary of Terms:
LTFA - Life-Threatening Food Allergies or Life-Threateningly Food Allergic
FA - Food Allergies or Food-AllergicRecently, someone on a food allergy community I frequent asked (in context of yet another "Allergy laws are stupid and paranoid and making kids dependent hypochondriacs" article), posted the following ( Read more... )

(link xposted to nopeanut_adults, but I'm sticking it up here, too, because this seems like pretty important info)

Whoa, fuck.

Moral of story: If you live in the U.S., don't buy cheap olive oil. EVER.