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• 1. Ray Sanchez  |  September 16, 2009 at 2:52 am

  I saw you Facebook page through mutual friends. Where is the first place a person should start to be Gluten Free? If you had one book to read about the subject what would it be.
  thx,
  Ray

• 2. theglutenfreelab  |  September 16, 2009 at 5:29 pm

  Hi Ray,

  Thanks for checking us out! There are lots of tips for being gluten-free. While it’s certainly a change of mindset, it’s not necessarily a difficult change, especially when you’ve got a few tricks up your sleeve! If you’re local, hopefully you’ll be able to come to our GF event in October to learn about said tricks (more about that later…keep checking the blog for details!), but for starters, we LOVE the gluten-free aisle at Andy’s Produce in Sebastopol. We’re also huge fans of the rice-coated fritto misto at Rosso in Santa Rosa and the gluten-free menus at the Stark’s restaurants (Monti’s, Willi’s & Willi’s Seafood, and Stark’s Steakhouse). In terms of books, of course be on the lookout for The Gluten Free Lab’s upcoming cookbook in 2010. Since that’s not on shelves yet, we’ll recommend any of Bette Hagman’s cookbooks. To learn more about Celiac disease, gluten intolerance, and how to cope in general, look for The First Year: Celiac Disease and Living Gluten-Free: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed.

  Let us know if you have other questions or if concerns pop up in your day-to-day life, we’re happy to be a go-to resource for our fellow GFers.

  -aa

• 3. Ronni Alicea  |  November 3, 2009 at 5:42 pm

  I am a dietitian that works with GF diets. I also do consulting for a few food companies and have samples for show and tell. If you let me know where to send them I can arrange Enjoy Life Food samples and a toast-it bag to demo how they can make travel a little less stressful!

  Ronni

• 4. theglutenfreelab  |  November 3, 2009 at 6:54 pm

  Thanks, Ronni, we’d love the chance to hand out some Enjoy Life Food samples at our meet & greet on November 11! I can get you the information you need for shipping if you’d like to email us privately at theglutenfreelab [at ] gmail.com.

  -aa

• 5. Shannon Scott  |  December 18, 2009 at 11:36 am

  I hope your site continues to grow…

  I’m a foodie and home-chef in Petaluma that’s been shopping & cooking gluten-free for 8 years. Son (age 10) & wife are celiacs, daughter (age 12) & dad are not.

  But, we all eat gluten-free…

  Shopping tip # 1 – Whole Foods offers a 10% discount when you purchase there products by the case .

  Shopping tip # 2 – Amazon.com sells many gluten-free on their website at VERY competitive pricing. Plus many of the items we buy (flours) can qualify for free shipping. We find that Amazon can beat WF (even with the 10% case discount) in price for many items.

• 6. the gluten free lab  |  December 18, 2009 at 11:39 am

  Thanks for the tips, Shannon, these are sure to be helpful to lots of our readers!
  -aa

• 7. mims  |  December 28, 2009 at 9:20 am

  I wanted to put in a plug for Gluten Free Baking Classics by Annalise Roberts, full or wonderful recipes for making staples like bagels, doughnuts, cookies, breads, etc.

  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1572840994/ref=ox_ya_oh_product

• 8. gluten free sue  |  January 4, 2010 at 9:02 pm

  The problem with most gluten free cooking and baking is the high glycemic flours. I am looking for some healthier options.

• 9. theglutenfreelab  |  January 4, 2010 at 9:04 pm

  We’ll keep that in mind when choosing our twelve flours for ten!

• 10. josh  |  January 22, 2010 at 1:51 pm

  is it possible to put Jackson’s Bar & Oven on the restaurant list? P.S. we now have GF beer!

• 11. theglutenfreelab  |  January 22, 2010 at 1:58 pm

  Thanks for the heads up on the GF beer! And consider yourselves On The List.

  -aa

• 12. Billie J Boyd  |  January 28, 2010 at 9:38 pm

  I would like to get on your emial list to receive any postings etc.

• 13. theglutenfreelab  |  January 29, 2010 at 8:08 am

  NEW FEATURE! Click on the “Sign Me Up” button on the right side of the screen to receive The Gluten Free Lab’s blog posts directly in your email box. Woo!

• 14. Nina  |  February 2, 2010 at 2:47 pm

  Hi Aly, Heather, and Molly , your site is really great, I love it.
  I wonder if you know any Gluten Free Comercial Kicthen Facilities in California, Ventura County, or any site that have information and resources to certified comercial GF Kickens around this area. Thank you, Nina.

• 15. Kandis Kozolanka  |  February 15, 2010 at 2:34 pm

  This rocks, I look forward to your recommendations and triumphs. Nice to know you are here in the community. thanks. Kandis

• 16. Kate M.  |  February 23, 2010 at 11:52 am

  Hi ladies, I’m reaching out on behalf of The Bohemian in Santa Rosa. We’re hoping to do a small piece on you guys in the coming weeks and I was hoping to get some phone time with you to talk a little bit more about your group and blog. If you could reach out to me via email I’d love to set up a time. Thank you!

• 17. Debbie  |  March 19, 2010 at 3:27 pm

  Hi ladies, I just found this site. Maybe you can help me? I’m just starting a new business and I have been looking for a gluten-free kitchen to make my products in Sonoma or Marin County. Do you know of one that I can rent space from? My products were designed for my 3 boys who have so many allergies that even many of these wonderful gluten free foods are not an option. My father owned Italian Bakeries in the city many years ago when I was a little girl and I spent a lot of time in the bakery, even working in the retail store as a teenager. My dad has since passed away a year ago and now I want to continue his legacy only with allergy free foods.
  My products taste wonderful and have no gluten, wheat, soy, eggs, dairy, peanuts, garlic, peas, lentils,……and how can I make anything without all this, but I was forced toand I finally perfected them. Please let me know if you know where I can go so I can get these to people, especially kids, with tons of allergies!!!

  deb

• 18. theglutenfreelab  |  March 22, 2010 at 3:18 pm

  Hi Deb,

  Welcome to The Gluten Free Lab, we’re happy to know ya! We don’t know much about commercial kitchen spaces, although it sounds like you have a lot of know-how in your genes. Let us know when you go commercial with your products, we’d love to promote you!

• 19. Kevon Arthurs, ND  |  March 25, 2010 at 9:15 am

  Hi I found you in the bohemian and am so excited. I am a naturopathic medical doctor and have 18 years of experience in the treatment of gluten/gliadin sensitivites. Group support is key!
  Please contact me 707-888-7727. Love to help!

• 20. theglutenfreelab  |  March 26, 2010 at 11:16 am

  Thanks for getting in touch with us, Kevon! Would love to have a conversation with you about how we can support one another, we’ll be in touch.

• 21. donna  |  May 15, 2010 at 7:53 am

  Sift Cupcakery is doing gluten free Wednesdays! They make amazing cupcakes now in 3 locations: Cotati, Santa Rosa and Napa
  I bet if they have enough requests they may do more GF free cupcakes!

  http://www.siftcupcakery.com/Home_Page.html

• 22. theglutenfreelab  |  May 15, 2010 at 8:14 am

  We’re on the same wavelength, Donna! Earlier this week we wrote a post about Sift’s GF Wednesdays!

• 23. Mmm Buono!  |  May 15, 2010 at 12:20 pm

  Ok, I’ve finally got my new company started. Here is my web site……still a work in progress, http://www.mmmbuono.com.
  I’ve got gluten-free, soy-free, egg-free, dairy-free and peanut free products available like Multi-Seed Sandwich bread, Corn bread, Coconut Macaroons (to die for), Almond Macaroons, Breadsticks and my famous Pezzi! You can get them all at drop off locations in Novato, San Francisco, and in Tara Firma Farm weekely produce boxes in Petaluma and more to come. I’m working on getting into some Farmers Markets and really soon hopefully into Oliver’s Markets.
  I’m on my way!!!
  deb

• 24. Mmm Buono!  |  May 15, 2010 at 12:23 pm

  Saw your post and would love to help those living without. I’ve got bread, corn bread and Italian cookies all without gluten-soy, egg, dairy and peanut. My son has these problems and that is what got me started on all of this. I want to bring better tasting foods to those “LIVING WITHOUT”. Where are you located?

  deb
  Mmm Buono!
  707 292-8958

• 25. Mmm Buono!  |  May 15, 2010 at 12:24 pm

  Here’s my site so far……www.mmmbuono.com

  deb

• 26. Clay Daulton (aka Ben?)  |  May 16, 2010 at 2:10 pm

  Hello Ladies!

  I finally logged on and I LOVE the site!

  What a great project and a resource for us G-Free folks. Your forays will surely help to keep me inspired in the GF city of Boulder, CO, certainly one of the great GF cities anywhere.

  P.S. If you want me to do some “Freelance reporting”, please let me know. I’d be happy to do a GF Boulder report!

  Love,

  Clay

• 27. kathleen white  |  May 17, 2010 at 7:32 am

  Hi Heather,

  I am a friend of Donna at Relish. Do you want to talk about speechless Cakes? I searched speechless cakes and show your message! funny, wb at katyydesign@comcast.net. I need a logo.
  best, kathleen

• 28. auntjayne  |  June 10, 2010 at 1:38 am

  Hi
  I have just found your blog and I wanted to tell you I am quite impressed.
  I even signed up for your updates.
  Keep up the good work!
  Aunt Jayne

• 29. Lorna Johnson  |  June 25, 2010 at 2:15 pm

  hi there – I noticed you have a cookbook coming up soon – I am curious if you will be self publishing? I’m a book printer just down the road in Petaluma – doing both hardbound and softbound (sewn and glued) books. If you are self publishing, I would LOVE to work with you on your cookbook. Best, Lorna

• 30. Karen  |  August 3, 2010 at 10:50 am

  My son collected your dig in: sweets cookbook at the Gluten Free fair last Friday…..and we did not pay for it. Please send me your address so I can follow thru.
  Thanks,

• 31. Kaila  |  August 15, 2010 at 9:48 pm

  Hi. This website is awesome, but I was wondering if you ever look into some dairy-free stuff as well?? Ive been lactose intolerant for years, but just found out I have celiac as well. I need some help with eating out! Any suggestions?

  Thanks!

• 32. theglutenfreelab  |  August 16, 2010 at 8:50 am

  We have a few recipes on this blog that are dairy free and gluten free — just search for posts with the “vegan” tag to see what’s tasty AND GF/DF!

• 33. Corinne  |  November 1, 2010 at 3:53 pm

  Great blog. Thanks for the recipe for the chocolate almond sandwich cookies. I’ll have to add these to my plans for Chocolate and Almond Theme Week! I’ve eaten a different (gluten-free) chocolate item each day for over 4 yrs. Just goes to show, there are lots of things to eat out there w/ no wheat/gluten. best, Corinne, CCE (Chief Chocolate Eater) at chocolate banquet (http://chocolatebanquet.blogspot.com)

• 34. Mary Kay  |  November 15, 2010 at 9:26 am

  Can’t wait to see your cookbook. My go-to-baking coobook is called “Gluten-Free Baking” by Rebecca Reilly. She is a pastry chef on the east coast. Her receips are flawless and my family cannot tell that they are GF.

• 35. Deb  |  November 30, 2010 at 4:22 pm

  Hey, I just wanted to let you know I checked out the GF pizza at Jackson’s with another GF friend of mine – it was awesome, but we both had bad reactions – I loved the pizza and would love to try again, but I’m a bit afraid. Have you heard this from others?

• 36. theglutenfreelab  |  November 30, 2010 at 4:30 pm

  Oh no! We’re sad to hear about your bad reactions to the GF pizza at Jackson’s…We’ve heard from one other reader who had a negative reaction, but we haven’t experienced it first-hand, despite the scores of pizzas we’ve eaten over there. (Any others out there who’ve had a bad reaction who aren’t speaking up??) Since there isn’t a dedicated gluten-free kitchen at Jackson’s, it’s kind of a crap shoot as to who is preparing your pizza, how much knowledge they have about keeping ingredients & utensils separate, and how detailed they will be in sweeping out the pizza oven between baking a gluten pizza and baking a gluten-free pizza. When The Lab dines out at restaurants that aren’t exclusively GF, we generally alert our waitstaff to our disease/allergy/intolerance prior to dining with the hopes that they let the kitchen know, but we accept the fact that there’s always a chance some wayward gluten will make its way into our food.

• 37. Debra Baretta  |  December 1, 2010 at 10:18 am

  Hi girls,

  I wrote to you back in March or April when I was just setting up my new gluten free business. Just wanted to let you know that Mama Baretta Italian bread and cookies can now be found at SANS Gluten Free Grocery Store in San Rafael, Oliver’s Markets and coming soon to Andy’s Market. I’d love to get samples to you for your review. Let me know how I can do that!

  deb – Mama Baretta

• 38. theglutenfreelab  |  December 9, 2010 at 11:44 am

  Fantastic news! We’d love to give your products a try. If you’d like to drop them off or ship them, we’re at 134 North Street in Healdsburg.

• 39. Anna  |  January 15, 2011 at 3:59 pm

  Do you know of any Gluten Free Commercial kitchens in Sonoma or Marin County that rent space?

• 40. theglutenfreelab  |  January 15, 2011 at 4:08 pm

  We’re not sure. It’d be worth it to check with any local gluten-free brands that are based in the county — McNish’s Gluten Free Goodies, Pamela’s Products, Zix Cookies, Bliss Bakery, etc. Or you could check with North Bay Celiacs to see if they have any knowledge of regional GF commercial kitchens. Good luck! And let us know what you find out!

• 41. alisa stratton  |  January 28, 2011 at 8:57 am

  In addition to avoiding gluten, I have a severe soy allergy, so no soybean oil, no shortening, etc. I am wondering if your products include vegetable (soybean) oil, or perhaps canola, which is generally safe for us soy-allergic folks? You also mention grapeseed oil, which sounds like a wonderful alternative…
  Glad that a FB friend made me aware of you. I live here in beautiful Santa Rosa.

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• 43. Corinne  |  February 11, 2011 at 1:42 pm

  FYI, I bought some acorn flour from the woman in Martinez (who makes it herself from acorns from local oak trees). Lovely gluten-free alternative. She makes biscotti with it. I’ve made some g-free souffle-type dessert items; sweet cornbread + acorn bread; popovers, other items with it. Very nice.

• 44. theglutenfreelab  |  February 11, 2011 at 1:45 pm

  Oooh, that sounds yummy! Do you know if the woman who makes the acorn flour has a business name or a web presence?

• 45. Corinne  |  February 11, 2011 at 2:27 pm

  Yes, here is some info. on local (Bay Area) source for acorn flour from Sue Chin.
  http://buyacornflour.com/contact.html

• 46. Corinne  |  February 11, 2011 at 2:37 pm

  I forgot to add…Acorn flour, I learned recently, is quite common in Korean dishes, noodles, etc.
  Example:
  http://www.myepikorean.com/2008/02/acorn-noodles.html

  Seems like some of these recipes that also may contain rice (ok) or wheat (not ok) could easily be adapted to fit gluten-free needs. I’ve enjoyed what I’ve concocted so far. Look forward to hearing from others.

• 47. jennifer  |  February 16, 2011 at 2:28 pm

  Aly—-how could I have missed this!! I am following you now!

• 48. theglutenfreelab  |  February 16, 2011 at 2:31 pm

  you are so cute! thanks for tracking me down & following me!

• 49. Deb Baretta  |  February 22, 2011 at 10:51 pm

  I’ve got products at Andy’s Produce in Sebastopol and Oliver’s Markets in Santa Rosa and Cotati. All of my products are gf, soy free, vegan, peanut free and some are even corn and yeast free. I am here in Penngrove and if you don’t find what you want at those stores you can always order on line and pick up at Jave Amore in Penngrove. We were just at North Bay Celiac support group this past Sunday with samples and we will be doing a bread demo in the next couple of weeks at Andy’s Produce. Check the website for up coming demos.
  We will be doing samples at the Penngrove Fitness Fair on April 2 and we will probably have samples at the GIG meeting in Marin on April 11.

• 50. Deb Baretta  |  February 22, 2011 at 10:52 pm

  I will ship you some product. Who do I send to? Gluten Free Lab? and what is the zip??
  deb

• 51. Amber  |  April 19, 2011 at 8:47 pm

  You guys got to update your local restaurant list. There’s Wild Goat Bistro, Avatar, and Extreme Pizza in Petaluma with gluten free items.

• 52. theglutenfreelab  |  April 20, 2011 at 9:17 am

  You’re right! We’ll work on getting some fresh links up there over the next couple of days…

• 53. Chris  |  May 24, 2011 at 7:29 pm

  nice blog! love the information stuff… really helpful in pointing me in the right direction…

• 54. elizabeth moskow  |  June 6, 2011 at 7:20 pm

  Hey ladies!
  Great BLOG. My friend from culinary school Jeff Mall suggested I take a look. I am more than impressed.

  Molly, I see you might be interested in my blog/project
  strangerthankitchen.com

  I haven’t let the cat out of the bag yet on it though that all items i’ve made are totally gf.

  Let me know what you think!
  and BRAVO!

• 55. theglutenfreelab  |  June 6, 2011 at 8:17 pm

  Thanks for checking us out, Elizabeth! We took a peek at both of your projects & it looks like we’re kindred spirits of the food world. Here’s hoping our paths cross one day up here in Healdsburg, CA or somewhere just as delicious.

• 56. Zaida Palilla  |  January 19, 2012 at 11:29 am

  Good info! Waitin’ for more!

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