Eating out with Food Allergies: Tasting Menu at George Restaurant
Is it possible to try a tasting menu when you have a list of food allergies as long as your arm? That was the challenge we presented to George Restaurant in Toronto during our vacation. They went for it and this is the story. Amuse bouche When The Boy and I first started dating, we…
Virtual Food Adventures for People with Food Allergies
I spent over 30 years of my life being nauseated. It arrived along with my juvenile arthritis, and stayed put until 10 years ago when I started Biologics. One of the best and incompletely unexpected add-ons to my disease being controlled is a humongous reduction in nausea. An unfortunate and unexpected (likely coincidental?) increase in…
Eating out with Food Allergies: Do’s and Don’ts for Restaurant Staff
Eating out when you have food allergies is an adventure akin to playing Russian roulette. Funnelcake at the fair. Thankfully, no nuts in the booth. It’s not Russian roulette because restaurants don’t try to accommodate you — they do – but because the staff in restaurants have a varying understanding of what food allergies mean….
Evidence vs. Experience
I have what can best be described as a crapload of allergies. Some of them have been around since I was a kid — if I ate too many grapes or apples, I’d get hives — but others are new additions. First came kiwi, then 15 years ago certain kinds of nuts arrived, taking with…
Mass Hysteria
A couple of months ago, there was a bit of a thing when someone said that the concern about nuts and nut-free zones was showing all signs of flirting with mass hysteria. Dr. Nicholas Christakis, who himself allergic to nuts, was quoted as saying that the efforts of schools to declare themselves completely nut-free, including…