<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Carl asked about distilled vinegar. As you figured out, there's controversy in the celiac community about this. The CSA has it on their no-no list. I'm a chemist and a celiac. I have no problems eating distilled vinegar in commercial products like pickles and relish. I don't cook with it at home since I have other options. However, if I were to restrict myself on commercial products, I'd cut out a lot of things I want to buy and eat. I do not eat anything with malt vinegar which may be flavored with malt mash, I don't know enough about this to be confident that it's ok. Distillation should remove all gluten and other proteins which stay behind with the vinegar passes through the distillation column, so it shouldn't matter if the vinegar is distilled from wheat, corn or potatos. I haven't visited a commercial vinegar plant, so I have no first hand knowledge of the distillation process, but I'm certain that it's every bit as efficient as we do in a lab and probably much more so. I know there are celiacs who have problems with distilled vinegar who say that they have no problems with other types of vinegar, and if you are one of those, certainly, avoid it. However, people have problems eating lots of specific foods that have nothing to do with celiac. I would not make similar statements about distilled liquor becuase I suspect that some of the "mash" is used to flavor the ethanol that's distilled over in manufacturing. Good luck, Ellen Switkes