Comments on: Celiac disease on the rise, Jimmy Buffett’s new restaurant, a $246,250 lunch

By: Scott Hayden

Scott Hayden — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:17:58 +0000

Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder and unlike allergies it does not improve with time. The writer of this article should take the time to do more research.

By: Kevin Baker

Kevin Baker — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:22:26 +0000

Please advise the writer of this article that celiac disease is not “an allergy to gluten.” It’s FAR worse than that. Splitting hairs? No, because if you think it’s an allergy, you might decide to keep eating gluten and just tolerate your “allergic” reaction. Later on, when you discover it’s led to cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, anemia, etc. etc. it will be too late.

By: Michael Gyovai

Michael Gyovai — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:04:01 +0000

Janet hit the nail on the head. Like the rest of Ontario and Canada, Celiac’s love food as much as the next and as good as the improvements to food, like bread has been, we are still not there yet.
With more and more children becoming Celiac around the time they start going to school, we need food for these children that resemble, smells and tastes like Wheat-products. With the possibility of getting diabetes and forms of cancer, we need help from the professionals like Marc Thuet to help use with access to quality gluten free food so that we are not temped to stray to wheat products that will cause us long-term pain. Most adults can do it but you try to keep a child away from the cookie dish??

By: Janet Dalziel

Janet Dalziel — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:05:26 +0000

Thank you for the coverage of celiac disease and the link to the Globe article. I would love to challenge Marc Thuet and any other fabulous Toronto chef out there to make a really good, tasty, chewy, crusty gluten-free bread. Nobody has done it yet, even in France. After that, we’ll get to croissants. Celiacs love good food, probably appreciate it even more than others because we miss out on so much of it. We’d go to restaurants, with our families and friends, a lot more if they could really feed us what we crave. I’m tired of watching others chomp down on good bread when I have nothing.