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GLUTEN-FREE COOKING SPREE COMES TO ATLANTA
National Foundation for Celiac Awareness and CNN Newsroom Anchor Heidi
Collins host Gluten-Free Cooking Spree with top chefs, doctors and
news reporters
Atlanta, GA – October 16, 2007 – Prominent chefs, medical
professionals and CNN news personalities will take over the kitchens
at the CNN Center on Friday Oct. 19, 2007 at 7:00p.m. to compete in
the creation of unique gluten-free meals in an effort to raise
awareness of celiac disease and the gluten-free diet. The competition
will be hosted by the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness (NFCA)
and moderated by CNN Newsroom Anchor Heidi Collins, a fellow celiac
disease sufferer and the NFCA spokeswoman.
Celiac disease is an autoimmune digestive disease that damages the
villi of the small intestine and interferes with absorption of
nutrients from food. Celiac sufferers can maintain a normal lifestyle
by following a gluten-free diet, which means excluding wheat, barley
and rye.
NFCA will pair prominent Atlanta-area chefs with medical professionals
and CNN news reporters for the competition onto teams of three. Each
team will be tasked with cooking a delicious gluten-free meal. The
judges for the event will be Joy Johnston of Atlanta.About.com, Dr.
Cynthia Rudert of the Atlanta Women's Medical Alliance and Riley
Collins & Ryan Flynn (kids with celiac). Instead of a cash prize
awarded to the winning team, a donation will be made to advance local
celiac disease awareness projects.
The participating chefs include: Lamar Thomas of East West Bistro,
Robert Gerstenecker of Park 75, Eric Mulville of Maggiano's Little
Italy, Ritter Jones of Ritter's Restaurant, Chris Lee of The Real Chow
Baby and Leeann Chin of Leeann Chin Restaurants.
The participating medical professionals include: Spencer Rozin of
Gwinnett Health System, Andrea Welter of Dekalb Medical Center, Gerald
Erickson, Jr. of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Jeffrey Lewis of
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Lisa Robbins of Robbins Health Care
Alliance, Glen Lewis of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, and Ronald
Ito of Gwinnett Internal Medicine.
The participating CNN news personalities include: CNN Chief Medical
Correspondent Sanjay Gupta, CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers, CNN Newsroom
Anchor Don Lemon, CNN Meteorologist Rob Marciano, CNN.com Anchor
Reggie Aqui and VP of CNN Productions Mark Nelson.
The Gluten-Free Cooking Spree is open to the general public and
tickets are available through the NFCA website: www.celiaccentral.org.
VIP Admission: $150 General Admission: $75 Student/Child: $35. All
attendees will watch the teams prepare their meals and will be able to
taste all of the dishes. Gluten-free food, dessert, beer and wine will
be served.
Other event sponsors include: Bob's Red Mill, CNN, Anheuser-Busch,
Pamela's Products, Whole Foods Market, Wegmans, Revolution Health,
Quest Diagnostics, Bell & Evans, The Brazilian Cheesebread Company,
SOYJOY, TH Foods/Mr.Krispers, Thai Kitchens/Simply Asia, Mary's Gone
Crackers, PureFit, Foods by George, and Gluten-Free Passport.
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The National Foundation for Celiac Awareness (NFCA) is a non-profit
organization dedicated to raising celiac awareness and funds for
research. NFCA is made up of professionals, medical specialists, and
volunteers—all dedicated to working with leading researchers around
the world to better understand celiac disease. Visit
www.celiaccentral.org or call 215-692-2639 for further information.
Visit the Celiac Web Page at Http://www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/index.html
Archives are at: Http://Listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?LIST=CELIAC
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