Sunday, May 18th, 2-5pm

City of Manhattan Beach
on the 13 th Street & Metlox Plazas
2nd Fields of Green Free Community Event!

Fun for the whole family, including performances by the SqueeGees children’s musical group, children’s activities, food samplings, professional athlete appearances, exhibitors (like us!) and educational speakers all inspiring healthy eating, healthy living, and the awakened athlete.

You can order any of The Sensitive Baker’s products to pick up at the event, and a portion of the proceeds will go to benefit GrowingGreat, a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring children and adults to adopt healthy eating habits. GrowingGreat provides comprehensive nutrition education and school garden programs to 1,000’s of elementary school students in Southern California.

To place an order please call The Sensitive Baker 310-815-1800.

For more information about the event,
call the GrowingGreat office 310-939-9216.

Hope to see you there!

SAVE THIS DATE:
Saturday May 3rd,
Moseley-Salvatori Conference Center
Good Samaritan Hospital
Los Angeles, California
9:00 am to 4:00 pm

This conference is always the event of the year for the gluten-sensitive and those of us who love you guys.

And this year’s speaker / guest list reads like a veritable Who’s Who of West Coast Celiac Disease. Here’s who they’re featuring:

Michelle Pietzak, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine. Dr. Pietzak will speak twice, once on Testing for Celiac Disease, and once on Follow-up Care for Diagnosed Celiacs.

Martin F. Kagnoff, MD, Director, Wm. K. Warren Medical Research Center for Celiac Disease, will lecture on Current Research at the center.

Danna Korn, Founder of R.O.C.K. (Raising Our Celiac Kids), author of “Living Gluten Free For Dummies” & “Cooking Gluten-Free for Dummies”; will talk about Living and Loving the Gluten-Free Lifestyle. She’ll also do a book signing - if you’ve worn out your copy of Living Gluten Free for Dummies (I know mine is about shot!) this is a good time to upgrade to an autographed edition.

Shauna James Ahern will have the luminous Gluten Free Girl available, and Karen Fine will promote her book for children, How I Eat Without Wheat. (Do you know Karen flew helicopters for the Navy for a few years? Is that cool or what?!)

There’s lots more going on as well - those are just the local heroes! But, speaking of local heroes, let us not forget to mention that the Celiac Disease Foundation itself is THE national organization providing support for celiacs and their families, and it’s founded right here in Studio City. Being part of a support group and getting the advice of a registered dietitian are considered to be the two top factors that correlate to a successful life as a celiac, living gluten-free. (I can’t quote my source offhand, but I’m sure I read that somewhere.) And note, please, that they’re also providing registered dietitians to answer your questions, right here at the conference.

Furthermore, the CDF promotes awareness of CD, in many different groups of people, from doctors so that they’ll diagnose more people correctly, to food manufacturers so that they’ll produce more safe food. They’re giving away the 2008 Champion for Celiac Disease Awareness Award - my vote is for whoever got them to take the barley malt flavoring out of the Rice Chex cereal!

Take a look at the program on the CDF website here. You can register online here. Do it now, the price goes up on the 11th. (Why wait? You know you’re going.)

Oh, and I almost forgot. Your Dinner Secret will be there and they’ll be sampling out our brownies. And, we’re providing our breadsticks for the luncheon. In fact, the whole day you will be plied with gluten-free goodies, from every gf-manufacturer in the country. (Why would you even think about not going?)

(And, why do I suddenly feel, like, Amish or something?)

Reminder that the next support group meeting of the CDF Westside Connections will be this coming Sunday, March 9th at 2:00 and 4:00 at our bakery in Culver City. We’ll be providing tea and sandwiches and other Sensitive Baker goodies.

$10 donation to the CDF is appreciated.

Edited to say: We are totally booked! Let Suzanne know if you’d like to get on a waiting list:

Suzanne Frieder
CDF Connections Leader, West LA to
sfrieder@earthlink.net

We hope to see you there!

Shauna James Ahern, gf- blogger and author, honored us today with a visit to celebrate her new book, Gluten-Free Girl.

We worried the turn-out would be as dismal as the weather on this rainy Super-Bowl Sunday, but to our delight, Angelinos packed into our little retail area to meet Shauna and take home autographed copies of her book.

[One woman told me she had called bookstores all over the city but they were all sold out, she finally found a copy in Borders El Segundo yesterday, where she purchased it and brought it with her because she was worried Shauna would run out. Luckily, supplies sufficed, and I was able to score a copy for myself at the end. Yes!]

See more photos of the event ….. Read the rest of this entry »

For those of you who can’t get pictures;

Shauna James Ahern

Author of Gluten-Free Girl

is coming to The Sensitive Baker

for a book signing

Sunday February 3rd at 1pm

Brownies will be served.

See Shauna’s blog at glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com.

It’s Gluten Free Day
Wednesday January 9th at
Plaza El Segundo’s Whole Foods Market!
(map)

Lots of GF samples to taste, a market tour cooking demo and more!

Also part of the program; from 11am-Noon Peggy Curry of Growing Great will continue her series of GF-cooking classes, “Gluten Free and Loving it!” This class will include a cooking demo and focus on eating more nutrient rich “whole foods.” You do not need to be gluten free to enjoy this class!!! Don’t miss out in the fun!

Menu: Juicing, Cole slaw, peppers and onions, quick veggie lentil soup and more.

Coming soon to Whole foods Plaza El Segundo, The Sensitive Baker’s wonderful GF breads and desserts!

(Really. Now that the holidays are finished, I am all over it.)

Last night was the first night of Channukah, and today we featured Star-of-David cookies - ta da!

Unfortunately those churros we hoped for didn’t happen. The cake lady was sick Monday and spend all day Tuesday making back-ordered bundts. This was all she could do today, because we’re busy getting ready for Eugenie’s cooking class tomorrow at the California Integrative Hyperbaric Center.

Eugenie is bringing the cutest little gingerbread houses to assemble and decorate in the class, and demonstrating a cake recipe (with a sample cupcake for everyone). That’s a lot of gingerbread, because last we heard the class was completely full.

If you tried and couldn’t get in, don’t despair! Eugenie is bringing extra gingerbread dough (soy-free) and sugar cookie dough (not) for sale at the low! price of $10/lb.; and extra packages of cupcakes. (6 chocolate or 6 vanilla $14, 6 vegan chocolate $17, 6 vegan vanilla $18.) (Not so low, I know. And the only soy-free one is the eggy vanilla. But that’s the best one. )

Eugenie joins Peggy Curry this
Thursday, November 29th from 11-12 at
Plaza El Segundo’s Whole Foods Market:
(map)

for a GF-cooking demo,
“Gluten Free and Loving It!“

Peggy Curry of Growing Great will demonstrate family-friendly recipes - no lecture COOKING ONLY! Learn ways to incorporate many alternative flours and alternative dairy products in your everyday cooking. Taste delicious samples! Receive wonderful recipes!

(See Growing Great on CNN’s Headline News, on YouTube!)

The Menu:

• Seasonal fruit salad with pomegranates & persimmons
• Coconut Pancakes (Peggy’s kids say they taste better than Krispy Crèmes!!! )
• Roasted seasonal vegetables with Vegan Parma crumble
• Hazelnut crusted sautéed white fish (John Dory or filet of sole)
• Festive baby green salad with candied nuts and shaved goat gouda
• Coconut pumpkin squares with coconut sorbet
• The Sensitive Baker’s quinoa cranberry cookies!!!***

***Eugenie from The Sensitive Baker will be demonstrating a wonderful and simple GF/vegan desert!

Coming soon to Whole foods Plaza El Segundo, The Sensitive Baker’s wonderful GF breads and desserts!

When I was a little girl, a slice of birthday cake, whether it be someone else’s or my own was certainly one of my favorite treats. However, I remember, even with my childish naivete feeling a little bit of guilt as I licked the last of the frosting from the plate. My little brother, who has a severe corn allergy never got to enjoy the cake and was stuck on his birthday with my mom’s homemade gingerbread cake. Betty Crocker mixes were full of corn flour, corn syrups and my brother had to stoically avoid them. Knowing what I do now about how unhealthy corn syrups are, I wouldn’t eat a Betty Crocker cake if you paid me, but looking back that cake was an important part of my childhood.

So, today as a baker for adults and children with food allergies and special diets, I keenly understand the joy that a “custom” cake can bring…especially when your name is written on it in frosting. A couple of weeks ago, I loaded up my car with several GF-CF-Soy Free -Vegan cakes and drove to Irvine to deliver them to the California Integrative Hyperbaric Center, a facility for children affected by autism. Like my brother, these children can’t have traditional cakes and it was wonderful to see them enjoying a big piece. Seeing how happy cake made the parents and the kids, was touching and nostalgic.

It is a privilege to bake for people and every cake that I make is validating and special to someone. If you can’t have gluten, dairy, eggs, soy….no worries….you can still have cake! Who knew?!

by Eugenie on 5/21/07

By the middle of the day our pretty white tablecloth was covered in blueberry syrup stains, but nobody seemed to mind as they crowded around our table to taste hot belgian quinoa waffles….

So began Eugenie’s entry after the Celiac Disease Foundation Conference at the end of May. She continued….

I was a little star struck when I met the Celiac Chicks (check out their blog: www.celiacchicks.com). I have been reading their blog ….
It was also really great to meet Cameo LeBrun, the founder and president of Crave Bakery in San Francisco. Cameo started Crave in 2003 ….

Oh! So many of my heroes, all in one room! I’m definitely going to the CDF Conference next year if I have to sleep in a hotel for shabbat to do it!