Our next monthly meeting will be at a local restaurant on the West Side. We will be meeting at Brio, 200 Crocker Park Blvd. Westlake, OH 44145. There is a parking deck for free parking behind Brio on the opposing corner. We will meet at 6:30 p.m. Brio has a gluten free menu including several entrees and gluten free pasta. The phone number is 440-250-8630.
View the menu: https://www.brioitalian.com/gluten_free-at-crocker_park_village.html
Please RSVP so we’ll know you will be there.
Recently Gluten Dude posted a campaign at Kickstarter to raise money to establish a mobile app for the Celiac Disease community.
Check it out. Share it forward. Donate if you are able.
Want to learn more about Celiac Disease? There are several upcoming meetings in addition to the one in Columbus.
The University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center is presenting New Frontiers in Therapies for Celiac Disease on Saturday, November 23, 2019. The symposium agenda runs all day. Register online. The meeting is open to physicians, researchers, dietitians, nurses and patients.
The Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University Medical Center is planning their biennial symposium on March 6-7, 2020. This meeting is open to professionals and patients. Save the date. Check back for agenda and registration.
The 19th Internation Celiac Disease Symposium is planned for September 30th – October 3rd, 2021 in Sorrento, Italy. No details yet. But it is not too early to start planning.
Bob and Ruth’s Travel is offering a Venice river boat cruise in September 2020 on Uniworld’s S.S. La Venezia .
Schar has partnered with Celiac Cruise and Royal Caribbean on a sailing to the Bahamas in January of 2020. Schar’s dietitian, Meghan Donnelly, will be attending the sailing to answer any nutritional questions.
Celiac Cruise also lists a Danube river cruise March 2020 on AmaWaterways AmaViola. According to the Celiac Cruise website the cruise will be 100% gluten free.
I recently sailed on a different Uniworld itinerary and had a plentiful variety of delicious gluten free food.
Let us know if you have recently sailed or plan to take one of these cruises.
Good Morning America had restaurant gluten free pizzas tested for gluten. Spoiler alert: some have gluten.
A study published in May 2019 showed higher rates of gluten detection in restaurant pizza and pasta than other menu items. Eating out is an ongoing challenge.
