Category: Allergy Information
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WW: Learn Something New: Maple Syrup
The very first known instance of the word maple (though, at the time it was “mapul”) was in Chaucer’s The Knight’s Tale in Canterbury Tales where it is just part of a list of all the trees in the woods. Maple trees (genus: Acer, Latin for sharp, as in the points of the leaves —…
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A Year In Review, 2012
First full year post-apocalypse. How have we done? Let’s chat. MK’s Take: I know that we haven’t been online for a year, but the original genesis for this blog was a discussion Denise and I had sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas of 2011. I was really unhappy with the allergy diagnosis. I felt like I…
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Whatever Wednesday Product Review: Earth Balance Mindful Mayo
Mary Kate’s Take: I’ll start off by telling you that, as a midwesterner, I grew up on Miracle Whip, not mayo. Throughout my pre-allergen life, I used both, pretty much inter-changeably, and never much thought about it. I was never a rabid lover of mayo, nor was I a hater — mayo/MW had its…
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Welcome and the Basics
Q: Who is this blog for? A: Anyone who has a food allergy, or anyone who has a friend or family member with food allergies who wants to cook for them. WARNING: Recipes are free of allergens the authors share in common (dairy, egg and hazelnuts), but recipes may contain one or more of the…