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I just returned from vacation in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.  What a 
refreshing vacation it was - most of the restaurants we went to (and we 
forgot our list of places at home on the kitchen table so we just walked 
in to restaurants and tried our luck) were completely familiar with 
celiac.  Many even had a note on the menu saying that they could adapt 
for coeliacs.  Some had gf printed next to the items on the blackboard.  
All of the restaurants treated me like a valued customer, and I did not 
become ill even one time.  The only times when we did not have good luck 
getting served were when the waitstaff were recent immigrants with 
little knowledge of English.  It was obvious right away if they did not 
understand, and we moved on to another establishment.

The major museums had lovely cafeterias with excellent food, and GF 
options everywhere.  Lunch was huge at these places, salmon, potatoes, 
choice of 2 salads, and sometimes a chocolate roulade with whipped cream 
filling - all GF.  Amazing!

We traveled with United in business class, and requested a gluten free 
meal.  The meal was great. 

A few noteworthy items -

At a restaurant called Cornucopia, they have a GF wrap for sandwiches 
that is actually good!  It was made of carrots, zucchini, apple and 
linseed, and looked like a sort of orange fruit leather, cut in a square 
shape. It was quite thin, not tough, and really nice for rolling up a 
salad.  It seemed to be a custom item that was made for them and we did 
not see it at any other venue, but it was worth replicating, for all of 
you who like to experiment.  The food at this restaurant is sort of 
hippie-vegie.  Lots of chewing and lots of vegies, but that wrap thing 
was an awesome break-through in GF sandwich making.

Here is their website - http://www.cornucopia.ie/menu.asp?id=4

The rock star Bono's brother has opened a place called Nude - it has 
great soups that are GF.

A restaurant called "Eden" was excellent and expensive, and another one 
called Ely's Wine Bar was also excellent - they use local produce and 
meat.  A place called 101 Talbot was also fabulous - very busy.  And a 
Nepalese restaurant that I can't remember the name of was also really fine.

There is a new baking cookbook out - Great Gluten-Free Baking by Louise 
Blair.  Lots of interesting little baked goods to try in this book, 
including some of the Irish specialties that we enjoyed.

I had a vacation from celiac, in a sense, in Ireland, since everywhere I 
went I had a choice of foods and was treated like any other customer.  
My family had a vacation from celiac too!

Alice

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