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Allergies challenge, but cooking is still my love language.

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AlexandraLynch

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HI! I'm a 48 year old woman from Indiana with an interest in historical cookery (focus is Anglo-Norman) and partners with various food allergies and intolerances. (An intolerance won't kill you, you'll just wish you were dead.) I'm intolerant of fructose, and have a condition that means I avoid eating legumes in general and most cruciferous vegetables. And I avoid nightshades because they make my arthritis pain worse. My boyfriend has had weight loss surgery and now cannot do a lot of bread, pastas, sugars, etc. My girlfriend, who lives with us, has an anaphylactic allergy to tree nuts and problems with less-than-fully-cooked egg, and she has nightshade issues as well. 

 

But I figure that just because I can't dip my bread in honey or make them chicken with an almond milk-pomegranate sauce, that doesn't mean that I can't enjoy cooking on a daily basis and learn to do it better.  I'm looking forward to participating in these forums and learning and becoming a better cook. 

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Welcome to eGullet, AL, from another Alex. Cooking well with no restrictions is easy. (Well, not easy easy, but you know what I mean.) Cooking well with multiple restrictions is a creative challenge. You came to the right place.

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

"...in the mid-’90s when the internet was coming...there was a tendency to assume that when all the world’s knowledge comes online, everyone will flock to it. It turns out that if you give everyone access to the Library of Congress, what they do is watch videos on TikTok."  -Neil Stephenson, author, in The Atlantic

 

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Welcome to eGullet, Alexandra.  It's a good place to be to find recipes and help with your somewhat challenged cooking life.  

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learn, learn, learn...

 

We live in hope. 

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