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I would to like to comment on your unfortunate and in-embarrassingly-bad
taste article on the front page of this past Weekend section entitled Let
Them Eat (Gluten-Free) Cake.

Believe me that those of us who are afflicted with the necessity of having
to carefully screen our foods, do not like having to do so.  Spend a week
with any one of us scouring food lablels in stores and grilling (no pun
intended) befuddled chefs and wait-staffs on food contents and you would
realize what a curse it is...and it doesn't end in a week, it is life-long.
I hope you don't think we enjoy having to be so careful.  Try eating on
an extended flight, train trip, bus tour or cruise and you will get an
idea of why we always have to pack 1/2 clothes and 1/2 food.

To lump us in with finicky or picky eaters is the crassest of bad taste
(again, no pun intended) on the part of The Wall Street Journal...of whom
I would have expected much better.  In fact most us try to be almost too
nice be taking our own food to events, letting the host/ess know our
problem, and/or eating around foods that are poisonous (yes, poisonous,
not just irritating) to us.

For some, we face a food allergy; but for some, like in Celiac disease
(Gluten autoimmune disorder) we face fatal complications.  Let's see if
you publish a snide article on the humor to be found in non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma.  I doubt it.

I think an apology is in order...and not buried in the 'letters to the
editor' section, but right where you published this abomination, on the
front page of the Weekend section.  Or maybe it will be crowded out by an
article on how annoying those wheel-chair and crutches-bound people are
when one is trying to hold a sit-down dinner party.

Jeryl Cordell