Article: A gluten-free diet challenge: Celiac disease offers big problems to cooks because gluten allergy bars many common items from recipes.

Byline: Lisa Abraham

Mar. 7--No pizza, no cake, no pasta, no cereal -- not even a slice of bread. This isn't the latest carbohydrate-free diet craze, it's the reality millions of Americans face when they are diagnosed with celiac sprue disease -- an allergy to gluten, found in wheat and other grains. An estimated one in every 133 Americans is suffering from this digestive tract disease, which makes cooking and eating a challenge.

Fairlawn resident Connie Sarros found out just how daunting a task cooking for a celiac disease sufferer could be when her father, Chris Petrackis, was diagnosed in 1993. He was overwhelmed by the number of items that had to be ...

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