Sorry for the belated post, but I’ve just returned from my honeymoon!  I’m now a married woman!  More on that later.  Here is your New York City GF news for August.

Al Roker bakes Gluten-Free Cupcakes

“Weatherman Al Roker told newscaster Ann Curry he’d made gluten-free cupcakes (with tapioca flour and rice flour) for his son Nicholas’s 9th birthday, which he shares with Mandela.” source: Bloomberg News.

DogFish Head adds a new Gluten-Free Beer to the Mix

In November, DogFish Head Craft Brewery will release their gluten-free concoction, Tweason’ale.  This is great news for gluten-free beer lovers, whose options are pretty limited. source: Bloomberg News.

Joan’s GF Great Bakes suffers from Fire

This news makes me really sad.  Joan’s makes some of the best frozen GF bagels out there.   I am keeping them in my thoughts and hope you do too! source: Long Island Herald

Babycakes at Rockaway Beach

Get your sugar fix while suntanning at the 97th Street Beach, where a half-dozen vendors share space.  source: New York Post

Sample Gluten-Free Bread on August 21

One of the NYC Celiac Disease Group’s members, Karen Freer, has just started a line of fresh gluten-free rolls, called, Free Bread.  She’s having  a tasting at her home and Meetup Members are invited to join!  source: NYC Celiac Disease Group

One of the tragedies of being gluten-free and living in New York City is not being able to enjoy the bagels.  I used to look forward to the hearty breakfast of a sausage, egg, and cheese bagel sandwhich from Ess-A-Bagel on weekend mornings.  Now, I sneak bites of the cheesy sausage from my fiance’s when he gets them.

Of course, I’ve tried frozen gluten-free bagels.  Udi’s makes a good bagel, although it seems a little too bready and not chewy enough.  I recently was introduced to Joan’s Bagels.  Joan makes par-bakes her bagels, freezes them, and then lets you bake them to your desired doneness.  This makes for an incredible texture, but they had the dreaded xanthan gum after taste.

I didn’t think that fresh gluten-free bagels existed, but I was proven wrong.  Vic’s Bagel Bar in Murray Hill makes gluten-free bagels because Vic was diagnosed with a gluten allergy 6 months after opening his bagel shop.  They make their bagels first thing in the morning as to not contaminate them with the gluten-full bagels.  I’m pretty pumped about this.  I haven’t tried a bagel from Vic’s yet, but I plan to before leaving New York City!

News

The New York Times Features Gluten-Free Goodies

The NYT has occasionally had some pieces on being gluten-free, but they have been mostly health related like Q&A in the Wellness Blog.  Around November, they featured a gluten-free chef and her Thanksgiving recipes.  Yesterday’s article by Melissa Clark was different.  It was about food.  It wasn’t about nutrition or health-benefits, it was about baking and flavor.  It quoted Shauna James-Ahern, the Gluten-Free Girl and Erin McKenna of Babycakes, two well-known voices and bakers of gluten-free.  I am excited that this article ran, it means that gluten-free food really has come a long way.

NYT: Gluten-Free: Flavor Free No More

Gluten-Free Food Labeling Summit in Washington a Success

The 16-layer cake was baked and built, and participants met with lawmakers and the FDA.  Read more in Forbes.

Celiac Vaccine Passes Phase I of Trials

Read my post about this.

Upcoming Events

Walk for Celiac Disease: Sunday, June 5 in Whitestone.  Sign up here

Pasta Night at Cafe 82: Monday, June 6- RSVP hereDinner at Lilli and Loo-: Tuesday, June 7- get on the waiting list here

Columbia Celiac Disease Center Roundtable: Wednesday June 29 – pre-register here

From Groupon:

$7 for $15 worth of treats from Tu-lu’s Gluten-Free Bakery!

From Erin at New York Celiac Disease Meetup Group:

What: Gluten Free Book Signing & Vendor Fair

When: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 4:00 PM-7:00PM

Where: Whole Foods Market – Union Square
4 Union Square South
New York, NY 10003

Stop  by at any time between 4 and 7pm.

It’s gluten free month and Whole Foods Market Union Square has all the products you’re looking for and more! Join local author Nicole Hunn for a signing of her book Gluten Free on A Shoestring with a cooking demonstration & tasting from a recipe in the book by our Culinary Demonstration Specialist.

To learn more about our author visitwww.glutenfreeonashoestring.com or see Nicole Hunn on http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/health&id=8109479

Gluten Free vendors will line the isles throughout the day.

Some of the vendor guests include:

Asherah’s Gourmet

Caveman Cookies

Emmy’s Organics

Kathy’s Foods

Tumeric Alive

Andean Dream

Mary’s Gone Crackers

My Dad’s Cookies

Pamela’s Cookies

Tasty Bite

Dr. Praeger’s

Gilbert’s Goodies