Beyond Rice Cakes: A Young Person's Guide to Cooking, Eating & Living Gluten-Free [Paperback]

Vanessa Maltin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 29, 2006

This ingenious health guide offers hilarious first-person tales of the trials and tribulations of living with celiac disease, including the often embarrassing side effects and surviving college without beer. Author Vanessa Maltin uses her own personal experience with celiac disease to help you cope and offers tips for a gluten-free lifestyle that is easy and fun to maintain.

• Easy-to-make recipes including snacks, finger foods, soups, salads, main dishes, and desserts
• Cooking tips from Christina Pirello, Emmy Award-winning TV personality and best-selling author of Cooking the Whole Foods Way
• Advice from experts for managing a gluten-free diet at home, in the workplace, at college, and on vacation

“Beyond Rice Cakes is a must-read for people with celiac, their friends and families. The Gluten-Free Girls’ tips and recipes are more than strategies for simply coping with celiac. They promote an approach to gluten-free living that is full of adventure, innovation, and joy.”
—Alice Bast, executive director of the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness

“Gluten-free cooking has never been easier!! With a small amount of time, limited ingredients, and basic kitchen utensils, Beyond Rice Cakes makes cooking easy and enjoyable for even the most cooking-delinquent college freshman.”
—Lee Tobin, team leader, Gluten-Free Bakehouse, Whole Foods Market

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About the Author

Vanessa L. Maltin is the director of outreach and programming at the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness. She was diagnosed with celiac disease as a young college student after writing an in-depth article on the condition for the Palm Beach Post. She now lives in Washington, D.C.

Product Details

• Paperback: 233 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (August 29, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595404243
• ISBN-13: 978-0595404247
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #972,147 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Vanessa Maltin is the author of Beyond Rice Cakes: A Young Person's Guide to Cooking, Eating & Living Gluten-Free and The Gloriously Gluten-Free Cookbook: Spicing Up Life with Italian, Asian and Mexican Recipes.

Vanessa is the Food & Lifestyle Editor of Delight Gluten-Free Magazine, a publication geared towards people with food allergies, celiac disease and other medical conditions relating to food. Additionally, she consults for a variety of gluten-free food manufactures and is an active member of the Advisory Board of the Celiac Disease Program at Children's National Medical Center.

Vanessa has appeared on numerous television shows as a gluten-free food and celiac disease expert including Planet Green's Emeril Green, CNBC's On the Money and CNN's Newsroom with Heidi Collins. She has been interviewed and quoted in U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Washington Woman, Supermarket News, Publix Greenwise Magazine and numerous other local newspapers. Additionally, she writes the Celiac Princess blog (www.CeliacPrincess.com), which receives thousands of visitors every month.

Vanessa received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the George Washington University and a Culinary Arts degree from the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City. Additionally, she holds certificates in the Practical Applications of Food Allergy Guidelines and Nutritional Analysis for Federal School Breakfast & Lunch Programs.

Previously, Vanessa was the Director of Programming and Communications for the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness. In this role, she was responsible for the foundation's programs including the Gluten-Free Cooking Sprees, continuing education programs for medical professionals and chefs, media outreach and strategic partnerships with corporations. Previously she worked as a health care reporter for the Advisory Board Company's Daily Briefing and for Cox Newspapers, where she covered health care, politics, immigration and other breaking news for major newspapers including the Palm Beach Post, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Dayton Daily News. In her spare time she enjoys cooking, playing the flute, ballroom dancing and pursuing anything related to improving celiac disease and gluten-free awareness.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This cookbook is "OK", March 13, 2007

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Leslie (Columbia, SC) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Beyond Rice Cakes: A Young Person's Guide to Cooking, Eating & Living Gluten-Free (Paperback)

This cookbook does have a lot of good information in it which is nice...and it has few recipes which I will probably try to use.... but I wouldn't say that it will be the one with the most bent pages. :)

I'm only 23, so I would imagine that I will qualify as a "young person", but some of the recipes were so basic that they probably shouldn't have been included. However, that being said, there are a few that are worthy of being included in our "rotation".

I like the fact that she is increasing Celiac awareness and that she provides bonus information. I just wish that there were some juicier recipes in there!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Very Basic, February 6, 2007

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This review is from: Beyond Rice Cakes: A Young Person's Guide to Cooking, Eating & Living Gluten-Free (Paperback)

I found the book to be very basic yet informative. It had some good recipes, but I guess I was expecting a little more.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond Rice Cakes, July 18, 2007

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Betsy Bowman (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beyond Rice Cakes: A Young Person's Guide to Cooking, Eating & Living Gluten-Free (Paperback)

A wonderful book for all and especially for people who live alone both young and old. Disregard Maltin's "young person" focus. Regardless of your age you will enjoy reading the book and using the recipes. Maltin writes with a practical and humorous view of reality. There are a lot of great tips and good advice in addition to the recipes. I am a senior citizen who lives alone who has cooked a lot of complicated recipes--this is one of my favorite books.