The Art of Gluten-Free Living: Three Essentials for Being, Eating, and Living Well

By Patricia Wilson

Interior designer and award-winning artist, Patricia Wilson, shows you how to master the art of gluten-free living for celiac. Master the art of being well by learning how to interpret your body's messages, retrain your brain, and listen to your heart. Master the art of eating well by learning how to adopt fresh perspectives, interpret food labels, and identify the best foods for the celiac diet. Master the art of living well by learning how interior design and color influence our sense of well-being. In this guide she reveals her personal strategies to help you turn your kitchen and your life into a beautiful work of art! Patricia shares her practical tips for travel, dining out, packing lunch, attending events, and entertaining.

 

Guide to the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection

Why and How to Keep a Lifestyle Journal

How to Shop and Cook for the Celiac

How to Convert Recipes

Sample Shopping List

Over 75 Recipes with Menu Guide

Guide to Bath, Body, Beauty and Cosmetics

Guide to Interiors and Color for Well-Being

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jan 29, 2015
• ISBN: 9781452598413

Patricia Wilson

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Copyright © 2014 Patricia Canfield Wilson.

Design by Patricia Wilson.

Author portrait by Jack Wilson.

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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

ISBN: 978-1-4525-9840-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4525-9842-0 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4525-9841-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014919897

Balboa Press rev. date: 01/27/2015

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Art of Being Well

Celiac, Digestion, and Immunity

Keeping a Lifestyle Journal

For Women

Fresh Perspectives

Body-Mind-Spirit Connection

A Guide to the Energy Centers

Detox and Forgive

A Guide to Crystals

The Art of Eating Well

Reading Labels

Other Names for Gluten

Shopping Guide

Sample Shopping List

The Creative Kitchen

Converting Family Recipes

Recipe Guide

Breakfasts

Salads and Dressings

Appetizers, Dips, Relishes, and Salsas

Soups and Stews

Vegetables

Sauces and Gravies

Meats and Seafood

Fruit and Desserts

Menu Guide

Birthdays

Thanksgiving Dinner

The Art of Living Well

Dining Out and Travel

Life, Lunch, and Business

Entertaining

Bath, Body, and Beauty Guide

A Guide to Cosmetics

Super-Sensitive Souls

The Interior Design Influence

A Guide to Interiors and Color

Conclusion

Notes

Resources

Fine Art Image List

End Notes

For Jack,

in celebration of our beautiful relationship with food

perfection

I am surrounded

by the storm that caused

a great and angry destruction

of misunderstandings

regret.

I rise above

the storm and see

a most beautiful and sacred swirl

a creation of colors, wholeness

perfection.

~ Patricia Wilson

Acknowledgments

To my entire team at Balboa Press, I offer my deep gratitude for your expertise and professional guidance in my book project.

Thank you to my friend, Tony Zenner, gifted hair chemist and designer, for your contributions and influence on my path to health, beauty, fashion, and textiles. My family and I value the time we have been fortunate to spend with you and Paula.

I am very thankful for my friend, Peter Paul, award-winning designer, creative director, amazing artist, and my good friend. I admire you and never cease to learn from you. Thank you for your expert eye, guidance, and influence in my career and in this project.

To my parents, I am so very grateful that you gave me such strong foundations in food, cooking, and life. Thank you, Mom, for all of your help with the recipes, and especially thank you for being my best friend. It is my honor to share our family favorites with the world. Dad, thank you for making beautiful handmade porcelainware for our table.

I love and appreciate the beautiful women in my family for your strength, wisdom, and cooking talents: Aunt Joanna Renko, Aunt Judy Brown, and Grandma Annie Canfield.

Much appreciation goes to my entire family for being so conscientious of my special diet, going above and beyond in thoughtfulness: thank you to the Gansers, Krajnaks, Canfields, and Wilsons. Thank you to my brothers-in-law, Steve Wilson and Scott Woodfall, for teaching me about maple syrup.

Our dear friends, Julie and Robb Bingham, contributed delicious recipes, and I am thankful to preserve the memory of our dinners together in this special way.

I have eternal gratitude for my spirit guides and their ceaseless love and guidance led by Karl and my father.

To my husband, Jack, gifted architect and humanitarian with a huge heart, I am deeply thankful for you. Thank you for the gifts of you, us, and all that is our life, and especially for encouraging me to take my talents out into the world.

Thank you all!

~ Patricia Wilson, RID

Introduction

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves … And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Every day we eat to sustain ourselves. We pack lunch, go out to dinner, take clients out for cocktails, attend the office luncheon, have friends over for dinner. How do we adjust when we need to eat gluten-free? Where do we start?

The word ‘free’ means liberation. A truly gluten-free lifestyle is one that is free of worry, limits, toxins, and suffering. Food, which ironically causes digestive upset, is the treatment. We begin by shedding old habits and reinventing ourselves with fresh, new perspectives.

I am not a professional in the fields of nutrition, cooking, or healthcare. I am a registered commercial interior designer who was born with celiac. You might wonder why a designer wrote a book about food and the body. I wrote it to help you, and to make your journey a little easier. When I was a child in the 1960s, celiac was unheard of in our town, and I think it is fair to say in most American towns. My parents spent years trying to have my ailments identified. As an adult, I continued my search for answers, finally receiving a diagnosis in my early thirties. In the 1990s, the term gluten was relatively unknown. I launched into research because I needed to become an expert. Although I was fortunate to have talented parents who cooked from scratch, I did not know how to cook and needed to teach myself.

Years after I had mastered the celiac lifestyle, I met my husband, Jack, who needs to be conscientious of his diet in ways that are different than my diet. Again, I researched food and health. Within the past two decades, a wealth of fascinating information has come into existence on celiac, brain science, heart science, epigenetics, and alternative methods of healing, as well as disease prevention. Research, a large part of design work, is a passion of mine, and I will always continue to love learning. I wrote this book to share what I have learned so far and to inspire you to explore your kitchen, even if it is uncharted territory.

Celiac is genderless, and the material in this book is for both men and women, however, to avoid the awkward he/she, I have used alternatively he, she, or the celiac. Learning the gfree lifestyle requires education, so I designed the book as a resource guide, although I encourage you to continue to research on your own to really learn about your unique and special needs and because celiac research is an ongoing effort. I felt that to offer a guidebook that would truly be of value and inspiration, I needed to combine the different aspects of living in one book. Food is only one component of life. Being well and living well are two other significant components. In addition to recipes and a basic understanding of gluten, I felt it necessary to include a simple understanding of the human body and the body’s energy centers. The impact of color, the influence of interior design, and the role of beauty are all important for living well and with quality. On first glance, these elements might seem to be unrelated to celiac. However, to really experience life on a deeper level, I wanted to show you from my designer’s perspective how I integrate these various aspects of living. I believe that everything is integrated and that nothing is separate.

The body-mind-spirit connection is a holistic view that I hold very dear, especially with regard to health and well-being. I have shared my interpretation of the body’s energy centers (chakras). There are also energy centers in architectural environments. Since living in the built environment directly affects us nearly every single moment of every day, I have included my interpretation of interior design as it relates to a healthy lifestyle. As a professional designer and artist, I truly believe that art, color, and fine design are essential for living with high quality, especially a lifestyle that is conducive to healing and peace of mind. I have included some practical suggestions on design and color so that you can turn your dining table and your life into a beautiful work of art. Also, I have interspersed some of my own affirmations throughout, in italics, that you may wish to adopt.

I wondered why I had celiac, as all celiacs probably wonder. I feel that my answer is so I can fulfill my divine purpose without the needless interruption of unnecessary illness caused by food. That would elevate my purpose here on