Gluten Freebird

Like any Washingtonian, I both love and hate the National Mall.
It’s a grand time-killer for a budget-strapped afternoon and a great way to unload visitors, but when it comes time to eat…..Well, I wouldn’t want to go down in history as the person in charge of creating that meal plan.
For years, we griped about flaccid [...]

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Behold: A tale of happily ever after, Burmese-style.
If there’s one thing this gluten intolerance has done, it’s eliminate my faith in the restaurant community. I’ve come to assume that restaurants will serve me, but not go out of their way to include me. That means that they can make a dish and withhold soy sauce [...]

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I am back and just starting to process our amazing West Coast vacation. The trip wound through Sonoma and Napa, Palo Alto, and San Francisco before leaping up to Portland and Seattle.
It was a food-filled romp from the start – our first dinner was at the epic Cyrus (I wish I had pictures) – that [...]

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First off, apologies. I have been swamped with deadlines and travel plans over the past few weeks. While I haven’t been posting, I have been eating, so you’ll get an onslaught of recipes, images and recommendations asap.
I’m currently in New York, so I’ve been enjoying gluten-free bites from a bevy of cuisines. First up: [...]

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Restaurant Week is back. In years past, it was a week of $20-something lunches with $30-something dinners. Nowadays, the week is often 2 weeks or even a month and that dinner has become $35.08 rather than the expected $30.08. I’ve gone to more than my fair share of restaurant week meals (it was a part [...]

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Sure, it’s easy to sometimes feel like D.C. doesn’t have it as good as NY, but my visit nearly convinced me of it — New York was the best eating I’ve had in ages.
Here are some snapshots of my bites apart from BabyCakes and Chinese food.
I like to think that the original yogurt at 40 [...]

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I trekked up to New York for work this week. New York may be hot, busy, and gritty, but it’s also a gluten-free mecca. I started plotting my meal plan ages ago and boy did it work out nicely.
Gluteneer and I finished up the cleanse with a rocking gluttonous affair on Friday night. There was [...]

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