Will I ever be able to eat bread and other bakery items that don’t taste like celiac friendly cardboard? That’s one of the first questions that every celiac asks. The triumphant answer is YES! It’s not easy —but it can be done.There are three types of bakeries and my goal is to write a “Successful Celiac’s Guide” for each one of them:

Many local bakeries gluten friendly products. Many of them providesa café of some sort to accommodate those who don’t wish to take their treasure home. I’ve published my “Successful Celiac’s Guide to Retail Bakeries and Cafes” even though the list is far from complete. Today is 2/5/08, and my goal is to have this list up-to-date by the end of this month.

  My next “Successful Celiac’s Guide” will focus on wholesale bakeries: firms that sell their products on-line and/or rely on retails stores to bring them to you.

  Finally, I will prepare a “Guide” talking about the firms that make it possible for us to bake gluten free at home. We need baking mixes, celiac friendly flour, cookbooks,  other baking supplies, as well as bread machines and blenders.

  I need your input to complete these projects. You have access to information (particularly facts about gluten free outlets in your local community. Please e-mail me at gfceliac@gmail.com if you have information that the celiac community needs to know about. Obviously, this is a big project which will take some time. It will be helpful.