Gluten-Free Recipes for the Conscious Cook: A Seasonal, Vegetarian Cookbook (23 page)
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Authors: Leslie Cerier,Kathie Swift Ms Rd
Tags: #Cooking, #Vegan Cooking, #Vegetarian, #Vegetarian & Vegan, #Vegetarian Cooking, #Gluten-Free Diet, #Low-Fat Diet, #Milk-Free Diet
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Alb-Gold North America Inc
Attn: Egon Flad, General Manager
P.O. Box 1353
444 E. 82nd Street #14C
New York, NY 10028
212-861-7212
This German company, which is dedicated to organic agriculture, makes and distributes a full line of pastas, including gourmet pastas made from rice or a combination of rice and corn.
BC KELP
P.O. Box 274
Prince Rupert, British Columbia
V8J 3P3, Canada
250-622-7085
BC Kelp offers a delicious variety of kelp in flakes, powder, and whole form, as well as wakame, kombu, seaweed fertilizer, and sea vegetable bath products.
Bob’s Red Mill Whole Grain Store
5000 SE International Way
Milwaukie, OR 97222
800-349-2173
Bob’s Red Mill offers a wide variety of gluten-free products: whole grains, flakes, flours, and more—including nut flours. Their website also offers recipes and links to forums and FAQs on gluten-free cooking. Most natural food stores and many well-stocked supermarkets carry a wide variety of products from Bob’s Red Mill, but if you can’t find what you’re looking for, you can order from the website.
Frontier Natural Products Co-op
P.O. Box 299
Norway, IA 52318
800-669-3275
Frontier offers a full line of fair trade, certified organic dried herbs, spices, vanilla, flaxseeds, sea vegetables, and more.
glutenfree.com
P.O. Box 840
Glastonbury, CT 06033
800-291-8386
This is a good source for gluten-free grains, flours, pastas, condiments, baked goods and other prepared foods, and more, including recipes, resources, and information.
Gluten-Free Mall, Inc.
4927 Sonoma Highway, Suite C1
Santa Rosa, CA 95409
866-575-3720
This is another good source for gluten-free grains, flours, pastas, condiments, baked goods and other prepared foods, and more, including recipes, resources, and information.
Gold Mine Natural Food Company
7805 Arjons Drive
San Diego, CA 92126
800-475-3663
In addition to offering grains, flours, beans, sweeteners, sea vegetables, miso, umeboshi products, and kudzu, Gold Mine is also one of the few sources for Ohsawa pots, a type of ceramic crock used to cook grains in a
pressure cooker
.
Living Tree Community Foods
P.O. Box 10082
Berkeley, CA 94709
800-260-5534
Living Tree offers a full line of nuts, seeds, and nut butters, as well as dried fruits, honey, dulse, dried shiitakes, olives, and olive oil.
Lotus Foods, Inc.
921 Richmond Street
El Cerrito, CA 94530
866-972-6879
Lotus Foods is doing an amazing job of bringing wonderful, exotic heirloom varieties of rice to Westerners while supporting sustainable agriculture around the world. We have Lotus to thank for Bhutanese red rice, black Forbidden Rice, Jade Pearl rice, and Madagascar pink rice. They also offer other intriguing varieties of rice, as well as stainless steel rice cookers.
Maine Coast Sea Vegetables
3 Georges Pond Road
Franklin, ME 04634
207-565-2907
This is a one-stop shop for all of your sea vegetable needs: dulse, smoked dulse, digitata (kombu), kelp, laver (wild nori), and more, as well as sea vegetable snacks and seasonings. Their website also offers lots of great sea vegetable recipes.
Maine Seaweed Company
P.O. Box 57
Steuben, ME 04680
207-546-2875
This small, family-owned business offers hand-harvested sea vegetables, including dulse, kelp, laver (wild nori), and digitata (kelp). They also sell seaweed for use as a fertilizer.
Navitas Naturals
9 Pamaron Way, Suite J
Novato, CA 94949
888-645-4282
This is a great source for cacao powder, cacao nibs, goji berries, maca powder, coconut oil, hempseeds, and more.
Nutiva
P.O. Box 1716
Sebastopol, CA 95473
800-993-4367
Nutiva is a good source for hempseeds, hempseed oil, and coconut oil.
She Sells Seaweed
Kacie Loparto
207-546-6449
Kacie offers dulse, kelp, kombu, wakame, nori, and a soup mix.
Selina Naturally
Four Celtic Drive
Arden, NC 28704
800-867-7258
Celtic, Hawaiian, Portugese Sea Salts.
Shiloh Farms
191 Commerce Drive
New Holland, PA 17557
800-362-6832
Shiloh Farms offers a wide range of grains, flours, beans, nuts, seeds, sea salts, dried fruits (including goji berries), and healthy sweeteners such as maple sugar and date sugar.
South River Miso Company
888 Shelburne Falls Road
Conway, MA 01341
413-369-4057
South River uses time-honored traditional methods to make some of the most intriguing varieties of miso currently available. In addition to typical mellow and aged misos made from brown rice, millet, chickpeas, and adzuki beans, they also offer dandelion leek, garlic red pepper, and sweet white miso.
The Teff Company
P.O. Box A
Caldwell, ID 83606
888-822-2221
Who would have thought Ethiopia and Idaho have much in common? As it turns out, Idaho’s Snake River Plain offers cropland similar to that where teff is grown in Ethiopia. If you can’t find teff at local stores, you can buy both brown and ivory whole teff and their flours online from the Teff Company.
Farmer’s Markets
To find a farmer’s market in your area, check the following links:
- Local Harvest’s CSA web page:
www.localharvest.org/csa - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers Markets web page:
www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/farmersmarkets
Community Supported Agriculture
Here are a few resources that can help you find a CSA in your area:
- The Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association’s CSA web page:
www.biodynamics.com/csa.html - The Eat Well Guide:
www.eatwellguide.org - Local Harvest’s CSA web page:
www.localharvest.org/csa - Rodale Institute’s Farm Locator:
www.rodaleinstitute.org/farm_locator - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s CSA web page:
www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/pubs/csa/csa.shtml
The Organic Center
The Organic Center is a great source of information on the health benefits of organic foods and agriculture, including scientific research on these topics.
Leslie Cerier
, “The Organic Gourmet,” is a national authority on gluten-free cooking and baking. She cooks and teaches all over the United States and specializes in whole foods and organic cuisine. She is author of several cookbooks, including
Going Wild in the Kitchen
. Cerier is a chef, educator, environmentalist, photographer, and recipe developer, and is sought after by health professionals and private clients for her expertise in local, seasonal, organic cooking for health and vitality. Visit
www.lesliecerier.com
for more information.
Foreword writer
Kathie Madonna Swift, MS, RD
is a registered dietitian and a licensed nutritionist. She is codirector of Food as Medicine, a professional nutrition training program. A frequent lecturer, teacher, and consultant, Swift is chair of nutrition at Complementary Care, a dietetic practice group representing dieticians in complementary and alternative medicine.