The Gluten-free Chicano is a monthly La Bloga feature, the fourth Tuesday of the month.
The Gluten-free Chicano Browses Hispanoparlandia • Restaurant Ratings
Michael Sedano
Gluten intolerance creates an incessant quest for more information about the condition and especially products and new recipes suited to a gluten-free diet. The Gluten-free Chicano, as with many a chicana chicano, is happy to be not confined to English-language media. There’s a world of useful information and recipes in hispanoparlante resources.
La Bloga readers with friends or familia who prefer Spanish text will find useful websites in Spain, Argentina, Venezuela, and Mexico. See for yourself; do a search for "celiacos de" and fill in a country name. (Links above).
As in Unitedstatesian gf websites, the sites feature a variety of puro news, advertorials, food lists, blogs, recipes, pop up advertisements, Q&A.
Browsing these is a good way to glean cooking tips. For instance, The Gluten-free Chicano might give this recipe a whirl, linked from Celiacos de Mexico:
Me acaban de pasar una receta de unos panquecitos (muffins, mantecadas, panqueques, o no sé con qué otro nombre los conocen, pero son panecitos de dulce) que yo adapté para hacerlos sin gluten y que les comparto por si los quieren hacer, para su deleite personal.
Recently, a friend tipped The Gluten-free Chicano to Guillermo Osuna Hi’s twice-weekly Noroeste viewpoint column, Puerto Viejo, and Osuna’s piece “La celiaca…” It’s an engaging essay that provides an informative introduction to the worst form of gluten intolerance, celiac disease.
Here’s Osuna Hi’s introduction:
El titulo de la presente colaboración no refiere el sobrenombre de alguna afamada chica porteña de cascos ligeros; tampoco es el mote de algún hijo del arcoíris que de manera notable haya escrito su nombre dentro del variadísimo catálogo de homosexuales mazatlecos de bien ganada fama pública y mucho menos, es el alias de alguna de esas dementes que deambulan por nuestras calles, para vergüenza del sistema y cuyas tristes figuras reflejan la frialdad e indiferencia de las instituciones oficiales de salud.
Nada de eso. La Celiaca es una enfermedad de la que poco escuchamos; de esas que se esconden bajo las faldas de otros síntomas, lo cual, provoca que el organismo afectado sufra graves daños.
Osuna Hi tracks the earliest Western medical diagnosis of gluten allergy to 1st century physician Areteo de Capadocia. Colorful as the opening lines, the column's listing of symptoms comes gently but to the point.
By: Erica Olsen,
on 5/20/2009
Blog: Librarian Avengers (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: story, Avenging, racism, San Francisco, bus, MUNI, 24 Divisadero, commute, Pepper spray, public transit, Add a tag
listing of grievances:
- Two stupid girls have a hair-tearing fight on the bus
- Liquid and curly fries fly everywhere
- The guy in front of me puts up his arm, so I do too
- The fighting high school girls roll out the door as it stops
- I continue listening to my podcast, because, meh, stupid girls
- People start coughing and opening windows
- PEPPER SPRAY! Hooray!
Interlude
- The guy in front of me has pepper spray in his eye
- I have some on my face
- The fighting girls are long long gone
- We all have to get off the bus
- We are coughing
- We are annoyed
- The 24 bus comes roughly every three years
- Why can’t they fight on a busier route?
Interlude
- My cheek hurts and I want to go home
- I get a cab
- I tell the driver what happened
- He immediately asks “What race were they?”
- I ask him what that has to do with anything
- He tells me he is interested in “Sociology”
- I say anyone who knows a damn thing about sociology knows better than to draw from a single data point
- I tell him that we aren’t going to talk any more
- He tells me he isn’t racist because he campaigned for Obama
Interlude
- I stiff him on the tip and go inside to take a shower
- Stupid girls
- Stupid pepper spray
- Stupid racist cab driver
Orale-- gracias for the recipe and restaurant reviews regarding Gluton Free eating. Very important! Y tambien gracias for the Occupy poems---
I meant to write "gluten" free pero hmmm . . . I also like the spanglish sound of glutOn!