A delightful memoir of learning to eat superbly while remaining gluten free.

--Newsweek magazine

Give yourself a treat Gluten-Free Girl offers delectable tips on dining and living with zest-gluten-free. This is a story for anyone who is interested in changing his or her life from the inside out

--Alice Bast, executive director National Foundation for Celiac Awareness

Shauna's food, the ignition of healthy with delicious, explodes with flavor--proof positive that people who choose to eat gluten-free can do it with passion, perfection, and power.

--John La Puma, MD, New York Times bestselling co-author of The RealAge Diet and Cooking the RealAge Way

A breakthrough first book by a gifted writer not at all what I expected from a story about living with celiac disease. Foodies everywhere will love this book. Celiacs will make it their bible.

--Linda Carucci, author of Cooking School Secrets for Real World Cooks and IACP Cooking Teacher of the Year, 2002

An entire generation was raised to believe that cooking meant opening a box, ripping off the plastic wrap, adding water, or popping it in the microwave. Gluten-Free Girl, with its gluten-free healthful approach, seeks to bring a love of eating back to our diets. Living gluten-free means having to give up traditional bread, beer, pasta, as well as the foods where gluten likes to hide--such as store-bought ice cream, chocolate bars, even nuts that might have been dusted with flour. However, Gluten-Free Girl shows readers how to say yes to the foods they can eat. Written by award-winning blogger Shauna James, who became a interested in food once she was diagnosed with celiac disease andwent gluten-free, Gluten-Free Girl is filled with funny accounts of the author's own life including wholesome, delicious recipes, this book will guide readers to the simple pleasures of real, healthful food. Includes dozens of recipes like salmon with blackberry sauce, sorghum bread, and lemon olive oil cookies as well as resources for those living gluten-free.

According to the National Institutes of Health, three million Americans suffer from celiac disease, the most severe form of gluten intolerance. Living gluten-free means having to give up traditional bread, beer, pasta, as well as the foods where gluten likes to hide-such as store-bought ice cream, chocolate bars, even nuts that might have been dusted with flour. However, Gluten-Free Girl shows readers how to say yes to the foods they can eat. This smart and indispensable book is written by award-winning blogger Shauna James Ahern, a reformed processed-food eater who had to transform her diet when she was diagnosed with celiac disease. Enlivened with funny accounts of the author's own experiences, the book guides readers to the simple pleasures of eating healthful food that is full of flavor. Even readers who can eat gluten will find connections with this book. Part memoir, part advice, and all inspiring, it includes dozens of great recipes. Gluten-Free Girl will publish in time for National Celiac Awareness Month in October.

Shauna James Ahern (Seattle, WA) shares her stories, photographs, and recipes on her blog, GlutenFreeGirl.com. Her popular Web site, which receives thousands of hits a day, won Global Best Food Blog with a Theme in 2006.