{"id":197,"date":"2008-04-01T20:05:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T03:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/01\/foodlab-gathering-la-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-09-23T15:52:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T22:52:25","slug":"foodlab-gathering-la-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/01\/foodlab-gathering-la-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Foodlab Gathering: Los Angeles, CA, 3\/17\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foodlab<\/a> is an internet mailing list for sharing recipes, tips, support and more while discovering and living with food allergies\/intolerances. Monica started the list a couple of years ago, after realizing that off-topic discussions of food allergies were starting to take over a parenting list. Most of the folks on Foodlab (the active posters anyway) are parents whose kids have food intolerances and many of the parents have reactions themselves.<\/p>\n

It’s an international list, with most subscribers living in the US. Monica lives in Los Angeles, and I got to meet her when I was in LA for Expo West last year. This year, we planned a potluck and invited all local Foodlab members. Unfortunately, there were some last minute cancellations, but we had a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

\"Miriam,<\/p>\n

(Miriam, Cyndi, Jessica, Monica)<\/p>\n

Monica and Matt, and 3.5 year old son Donovan, hosted the event. Jessica came with 2 year old daughter Roxie. And Michael and I (Cyndi) were there with barely 3 year old Miriam.<\/p>\n

\"Monica<\/p>\n

(Monica & Jessica)<\/p>\n

\"Cyndi<\/p>\n

(Cyndi & Monica)<\/p>\n

Our first order of business was to go through the several supermarket-sized bags of samples and literature I’d brought from Expo West to share.<\/p>\n

\"Jessica<\/p>\n

(Jessica, Roxie, Monica)<\/p>\n

Next we started cooking.<\/p>\n

\"Jessica<\/p>\n

(Jessica making vegan curry)<\/p>\n

\"Jessica<\/p>\n

\"Jessica<\/p>\n

(Jessica & Cyndi making tortillas)<\/p>\n

And then we ate.<\/p>\n

\"Miriam,<\/p>\n

(Miriam, Donovan, & Roxie ready to eat, with Michael in the background)<\/p>\n

All of the food was amazing. We banned any ingredient that none of us could eat (dairy, gluten) and anything that would cause a problem for someone if they got a trace (soy, canola, orange, egg, chocolate). We allowed but discouraged foods that one or more people had a problem with (reaction or a choice) but where a trace wouldn’t matter (meat, corn). And it was a given in this group that everything would be fresh and free of food additives.<\/p>\n

\"Curry\"<\/p>\n

(Jessica’s vegan curry)<\/p>\n

Here’s what we ate:<\/h2>\n

Monica:<\/h3>\n

Olive bread<\/a>
\nCrab cakes<\/a>
\nMisc pre-dinner snacks (veggies & chips)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jessica:<\/h3>\n

Keifer (non-dairy keifer grains fermenting apple juice)
\nCurry
\nHummus with eggplant
\nCashew cream with fresh strawberries (similar to my recipe<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cyndi:<\/h3>\n

Pickled red onions<\/a>
\nCorn tortillas<\/a> (made on site with Jessica)
\nHalibut ceviche<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Foodlab is an internet mailing list for sharing recipes, tips, support and more while discovering and living with food allergies\/intolerances. Monica started the list a couple of years ago, after realizing that off-topic discussions of food allergies were starting to take over a parenting list. Most of the folks on Foodlab (the active posters anyway) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,63,66,62],"tags":[48,7,6,49,8,81,47,11,51,77,113,34,33,5,12],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-food-commentary","category-meals","category-travel","tag-asian-food","tag-dairy-free","tag-egg-free","tag-ferments","tag-gluten-free","tag-latin-food","tag-los-angeles","tag-lowcarb","tag-photos-family","tag-photos-food","tag-photos-friends","tag-raw","tag-seafood","tag-vegan","tag-vegetarian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}