How To Contact

Connie Sarros, 3270 Camden Rue, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44223
Phone: 330-929-1651
e-mail: gfcookbook@hotmail.com
URL: www.gfbooks.homestead.com

Connie has written and published four cookbooks:

• Wheat-free Gluten-free Dessert Cookbook
• Wheat-free Gluten-free Reduced Calorie Cookbook
• Wheat-free Gluten-free Cookbook for Kids and Working Adults
• Wheat-free Gluten-free Recipes for Special Diets

All ingredients listed in her cookbooks have been approved by CSA/USA (Celiac Sprue Association), GIG (Gluten Intolerance Group), and NIDDK (National Center for Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases).

She has spoken to Celiac Disease Support Groups throughout the country.

Gastroenterologists and dieticians throughout the country hand out fliers about Connie's cookbooks to their patients who have been diagnosed with Celiac Disease. Some of these doctors include:

• Dr. Joseph Murray, Mayo Clinic, Department of Celiac Research and Head of Department of Gastroenterolgy
• Dr. Charles Halstead, author of "The Many Faces of Celiac Disease", in The New England Journal of Medicine
• Dr. Peter Green, Columbia University, Department of Celiac Research
• Dr. Aaron Brzezinski, Cleveland Clinic, Head of Department of Gastroenteroloy

Connie was the St. John's University Listserv representative for Northeast Ohio for four years.

In November, 2001, Connie was a speaker at the 14th Annual Celiac Disease Convention in Columbus, Ohio She was a featured panel speaker at the October, 2002 CSA/USA National Convention in Omaha, Nebraska and will be a speaker at the 2003 GIG Convention in Denver, Colorado.

Danna Korn, author of Kids with Celiac Disease and founder of the nationwide support group R.O.C.K. (Raising our Celiac Kids), has just published a new book, Wheat-free, Worry-free ; Connie wrote the recipes that went into that book. Shona Bloom's new Handbook for Newly Diagnosed Celiacs features recipes from Connie's cookbooks.

Connie is a writer for the new Scott-Free Newsletter, and she has a regular column in the Clan Thompson Newsletter entitled "Cook's Corner" where, besides featuring her recipes, there is an "Ask The Cook" section where readers write in their culinary concerns for Connie to answer.

She has written articles for newspapers and magazines about gluten-free cooking and/or how to get additional media coverage for celiacs, and will be the featured guest on four radio programs this year. Some of her printed articles appeared in The Englewood Independent, Star Beacon, Gluten-Free Living Magazine. In March, 2002, the Cleveland Plain Dealer interviewed her extensively for an article on Celiac Disease.

Her WFGF Cookbooks have been written up in more than a hundred Celiac newsletters. Her recipes were featured in the summer, 2002 issue of Living Without.

In 2001, one of Connie's recipes was selected for publication in Cooking Light Magazine.

Gluten-free catalogs carry her books: Gluten Free Trading Co., Ener-g Foods, Gluten Free Pantry

Libraries and health food stores throughout the country carry her WFGF Cookbooks.

Connie is in the process of writing a fourth gluten-free cookbook for celiacs who are also diabetic, autistic, vegetarians, vegan, or are allergic to corn, soy, nuts, lactose, casein, rice, eggs, yeast, and more.