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by Stephanie Hapner (Author)
This comprehensive cookbook is a dream come true for people with food allergies-offering 301 mouth-watering allergen-free recipes that are real-people approved and real-life tested. Recipes are free of corn, dairy, wheat, barley, rye, gluten and peanuts, and depending on recipe ingredient choices, free of casein. Easy-to-understand allergen icons code each recipe for quick selection in the full-color book. Also included are handy guides to introduce alternative ingredients, shopping tips to save time and money, tips to stock an allergen-free pantry, a crash course in label reading, and much more This book is allergy-free cooking everyone loves with easy, healthy and delicious mealtime solutions. The Hapner family was forced to revolutionize their diet when the author's son was diagnosed with a rare disease making it critical to avoid food allergens. But Stephanie Hapner quickly decided it wasn't practical to prepare one meal for her son and another for the family, so she embarked on a journey to create the flavorful allergy-free food her son deserved to eat. Through experiments that would inspire a chemist, she mixed a little of this and a little of that until she fashioned allergy-free food everyone loves. The book offers recipe variety in every food group and for every meal and occasion-for adults and children. What others are saying about the book: "I highly recommend this book to all food-allergic patients " -Peter M. Rothman, M.D., Fort Wayne Allergy & Asthma Consultants Inc., Fort Wayne, Indiana "...Practical, workable and should be available to everyone with food allergies." - Julia Cunningham, R.N., Las Cruces, New Mexico "...'Stephanie Hapner has the energy and enthusiasm of a Rachel Ray and the attention to detail of a Martha Stewart.' ...Nutritious, flavorful recipes the whole family can eat ... guides that take stress out of shopping...." -Kathy Soland, MS, CCC, Speech/Language Pathologist, TherapyWorks Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma "...Stephanie Hapner keeps taste in all her creations using food alternatives, pairing a serious love of food with serious attention to the needs of allergy sufferers . . . ." -Chef Michelle Matsey, trained in Deauville, Normandy, France "...Sweet, kitchen-tested, comprehensive resource ... yummy and home-cooked foods ... clearly doable by an ordinary person... A beacon of hope . . . ." -Susan Fekety MSN, CNM, True North Health Center, Falmouth, Maine
