"You
can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes, you just might find
You get what you need."
-
The Rolling Stones
Living
and eating well with celiac disease is often a matter of networking,
The following are some of my favorite links to loving, learning
and assuring an abundant and joyful gluten-free life.
Join
A Club…
Celiac Disease Foundation, www.celiac.org
CSA,
www.csaceliacs.org
GIG® www.gluten.net
Canadian Celiac
Association, www.celiac.ca
R.O.C.K.
(Raising Our Celiac Kids) www.celiackids.com
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Be
Well Read…
Living Without Magazine, www.livingwithout.com
Gluten-Free
Living, www.glutenfreeliving.com
Mayo Clinic Article -- What is Celiac Disease?
www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=DS00319
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Chat,
Blogs, Fun…
Chick Lit for the gluten-challenged, www.celiacchicks.com
 Izzie’s
SillyYak shirt from No More Cupcakes & Tummy Aches and
other whimsical accessories, www.silly-yak.com
Information, News, Event Calendar, Resources, Discussions
www.celiacforums.com/
Monthly
e-mails, information, recipes from Scott Adams, www.celiac.com
St.
Johns Celiac Listserv Newsgroup
Highly recommended, The Newsgroup is sponsored by St. John's
Medical Center.
To
subscribe send an e-mail to the following address:
listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
In
the body of the letter put the following:
SUB CELIAC followed by your first and last name:
e.g., SUB CELIAC Jax Lowell
And
remember, no flaming.
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Food,
Glorious Food…
The Amazingly Talented Connie Sarros and her shelf of cookbooks
can be found at www.gfbooks.homestead.com
Run by Beth Hillson, gluten-free goddess, celiac advocate
and friend, The Gluten-Free Pantry is a treasure trove of
baking mixes– brownies, breads, pie crust, cookies and
bagels that have appeared on Good Morning America –
www.glutenfree.com
The Whole Foods Market Gluten-Free Bakehouse is coming to
a store near you. For locations and information:
http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/products/gf_bakehouse.html
For gluten-free recipes and products, go to:
www.wholefoodsmarket.com/healthinfo/list_gf.html
Rebecca Reilly not only writes cookbooks, she teaches the
art of gluten-free baking in former bank now home to a four-star
culinary school. Torte Knox in Hawley, Pennsylvania,
www.torteknox.com
The now legendary Bette Hagman is the original Gluten-Free
Gourmet. Her books have been the inspiration for a generation
of celiacs. www.henryholt.com
Once
upon a time, Mr. Ritts was just another neighborhood bakery
until yours truly walked in and asked for something gluten-free,
then explained what that was exactly. Several years later,
it’s headquarters to a mail-order empire. I live one
black away. Am I one smart cupcake? www.mrritts.com
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Raise
Celiac Awareness!...
American Celiac Task Force, www.celiaccenter.org
The National Foundation for Celiac Awareness, www.celiacawareness.org
Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University www.celiacdiseasecenter.columbia.edu
University
of Chicago Celiac Disease Program
(I don't readily have a web address. I'll try to find
it.)
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“Do
I have it…or do I not?
They told me once, but I forgot.”
Prometheus Laboratories www.prometheuslabs.com
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Take
one and call me in the morning…
Gluten-Free
Vitamins www.freedavitamins.com
Compounding Pharmacy www.pinepharmacy.com
A free guide to gluten-free prescription and over-the-counter
drugs, www.glutenfreedrugs.com
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"I
get by with a little help from my friends."
-The Beatles
Still
Puzzled? Love a Good Mystery?
Visit the creators of Berkeley Prime Crime’s Crossword
Mystery Series (and the world’s first gluten-free crossword
puzzle) -- Cordelia
Biddle and Steve Zettler, aka Nero Blanc
Jane and Peggy and their wonderful children Sophie and Joe
were the real-life inspiration for Mothers. Click the
graphic above or the link below to see Jane's gorgeous hand-tinted
photos.
www.krenskyphotos.com
The
Art of Jane Kirkwood,creator of Izzie O'Brien
(No More Cupcakes & Tummy Aches).
Click
thumbnail to view full image.
Jane
Kirkwood, is a gifted painter illustrator, painter, portraitist,
photographer and graphics designer whose work has been exhibited
at Soho’s Ariel Gallery, The Art Gallery at Lincoln
Center, Washington Square East Gallery, The American Craft
Museum, and Long Island’s East End Arts Council. Her
freelance work includes illustrations for The Nation,
House of Arden and the Arts and Entertainment Network, The
History Channel.
Her
newest illustration project, with brother Robert Kirkwood,
is Birdle and Sprey, Craig Rosenberg's charming environmental
children's tale about a baby turtle and a newly hatched osprey.
She lives and works on Long Island’s North Fork, where
she and Jax summered as children and began their lifelong
collaboration.
For freelance rates, prices, information on portraits (no
sitting required, she works from photographs) or to commission
your own “homage” to your favorite painter. Or
just to say hello and give her your feedback, write to Jane
Kirkwood at noko2000@optonline.net.
She'd love to hear from you.
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Jax’s
Book Club
I'm
no Oprah, but the way I see it, whether reading or writing,
life is too short for all the good books in which to
lose (and find) ourselves for a while.
Revolutionary Road and The Easter Parade by
Richard Yates
Runaway Stories by Alice Munro
Unless by Carol Shields
Child of My Heart and Charming Billy by
Alice McDermott
Bird by Bird by Annie LaMott
Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
Sailing Alone Around the Room, Poems by Billy Collins
The Man Who Found Time by Jack Repcheck
Reading Lolita in Tehran, a memoir by Azar Nafisi
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Birds of America, Stories by Lorrie Moore
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
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