Re: eating out

For the most part, we have had servers and restaurant managers try very
hard to be accommodating. Sometime they mess up--either because they can't
imagine the severity and the danger in cross contamination, or because they
think they've done the right thing, but have made a human error--just like
I have in sometimes missing ingredients after thinking I'd read very
carefully.  I would say that things have gotten better for us in terms of
cooperation ata restaurants over the last 2 years especially as awareness
has increased, thanks to FAN and others.

But we leave in a big metropolitan area.  When I travel around the country,
especially in smaller more rural areas, they often don't have a clue what
I'm talking about.  I've found that in areas where Whole Foods and similar
stores are,and where there is a good college community, that there is more
success venturing out all around.

For that reason, our someday dream of living "in the mountains" could
probably only happen in CO or CA, but probably not in the south (where I
grew up)

Good luck.