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Re. other sensitivities:  Your wife is far from alone in dealing with
multiple sensitivities, I'm sorry to say.  My son is now or has been at
various points celiac as well as allergic to dairy, soy, eggs, nuts, beans,
citrus.  Our solution was to cook Asian, esp. Thai which used fish sauce
rather than soy sauce, but this does rely on rice as a base, and African,
some of which uses bread from alternative flours as well as fufu (the mash
of various starches, cassava, potato, or yam which has seen a lot of dis-
cussion recently on the list).  This made new recipes more of an adventure
than a trial of deprivation.  Of course it also made shopping and cooking
a part- to full-time job for a few months, plus rearranging storage to make
room for more spices and ingredients, new herbs in the garden.  I am full of
admiration for those who manage all of this (and contribute to the list)
with a larger household or unflexible work schedules.  One shortcut we have
found are latke mixes, and there are a number of potato starch flour
recipes scattered among various Jewish cookbooks which are not shortcuts
but which might be helpful.
 
I was set to post some recipes to the list not from specifically gluten-
free cookbooks.  As an academic I have become accustomed to copyright laws
which allow photocopying of excerpts for educational purposes, but do not
wish to offend those who want quite rightly to protect the intellectul or
professional property of authors of cookbooks.  My sense, however, is that
is that when we are faced with many cookbooks which only have a few recipes
we can use, most of us are going to resort to friends and the public libraryfor
 cookbooks anyway.  What I would like to propose is sharing one or two
recipes from a given cookbook in response to specific queries, and giving
full attribution (inc. ISBN # if possible) to the source if there are
enough recipes to justify our purchasing it.  Also, there are a number of
us who must have trouble affording multiple cookbooks (and therefore also
are not going to have enough income to claim deductions), and I forone
would be grateful for the occasional sharing of recipes, and cannot
imagine an author begrudging the information s/he is attempting to
disseminate being shared in this manner -- it is part of the rationale for
public libraries, after all.
 
Elizabeth