While dining out can be challenging for people who suffer from food allergies, restaurant staffers have become more adept at accommodating diners’ special needs — and with good reason. Studies suggest that four percent of the U.S. adult population and about four to six percent of children have a food allergy. Are you among them? Weigh in [...]
Celiac Disease
Daily Dining Poll: Restaurants and Gluten-Free Dishes
Should most restaurants have gluten-free menu items?online surveys
Dining Trends for 2010: Next Year’s Menus Will Feature Feel-Good Food
It’s hard to predict every dining trend that takes hold in restaurants around the nation, but Restaurants & Institutions magazine has come up with a list of things you’re sure to spot on menus in the upcoming year. You may already have seen a lot of these movements and trends gaining momentum in your neck [...]
Dealing with Food Allergies When Dining out
The Atlantic features a thoughtful piece on the many challenges dining out presents for people with food allergies. The writer, Alyssa Rosenberg, suffers from an allergy to tree nuts, and navigating a menu is a perilous process as the wrong order could potentially kill her. Ms. Rosenberg isn’t alone; according to The New York Times, [...]