How did the Allergy Free Cookbook come about?
It’s the book that I couldn’t find when I needed it. When my child was diagnosed with severe egg, peanut and tree nut allergies, the books available were grim with lots unappetizing-looking dishes. None of them seemed to celebrate food. Many of them also had created ‘one size fits all’ allergen-free concoctions, as if not being able to eat one or two things meant having no choice about the rest. There should be dishes, I felt, that people could eat together without even realizing they were dairy-free or gluten free or egg-free or nut-free. Q: What have been your biggest challenges caring for a child with food allergies? The biggest challenges were not how Archie, who has coped amazingly, dealt with it so much as other people’s reactions. There’s so much to explain to people to make sure that he can eat safely and not all of it is intuitive. The challenge is working out just how much I need to tell each person: what you need to tell your child’s school or an airline will be different fr
