Annalise Roberts co-writes a newspaper column, ""The Food Philosopher,"" and the website foodphilosopher.com. She works with a variety of celiac support groups in the New York metropolitan area, including the Westchester Celiac Sprue Support Group and a group run by the Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey. She is a resource contact for Bergen County, New Jersey for the Celiac Sprue Association. (CSA is the largest celiac organization in America and has more than 10,000 members.) She teaches gluten-free baking at local community schools in New Jersey.
<br> Gluten-Free Baking Classics contains a recipe for chocolate chip cookies that Gourmet magazine claimed were 'perfect' and 'dared anyone to detect that they weren't made with traditional wheat flour.' I took the challenge and tried a test recipe on chocolate chip cookie-lovers...only to find that Gourmet was right and I didn't have enough taste samples to keep up with their enthusiastic appetites. <br>--Sue Ade, Morris News Service <br> [Roberts's] kitchen tested recipes make her baked goods lighter, and fluffier than the rest. <br>--Donna Gray, Calgary Herald <br> We were captivated by these perfect chocolate chip cookies, [with their] crisp yet yielding texture, and we dare anyone to detect they weren't made with traditional wheat flour...[the] rich but light...cake loses nothing from the absence of white flour. <br>-- Gourmet <br> This remarkable cookbook contains mouthwatering recipes, the directions are easy to follow and the hints are a welcome extra bonus.