Gluten-Free Brioche. Photo by Stephanie Stiavetti.
The blog world knows Carol Blymire for her cooking her way through The French Laundry Cookbook (how I became acquainted with her). She's now documenting her adventures in avant-garde home cooking in her new blog, Alinea at Home. By day, she's a communications and public policy consultant in D.C. Day and night, she lives with celiac, a disease that prevents the body from digesting gluten, diagnosed after years of tests for ALS and MS and the like when her dermatologist noticed some rashes and said she probably had celiac. Celiac sources say 3 million suffer from it. One in 4 is genetically predisposed to the disease. No one knows what engages the gear that activates it. Millions are likely undiagnosed. Until Carol went on a rant about what she goes through (I was likely being insensitive)—I had no idea what ... well, more people, chefs especially, ought ...
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