Thank you!
Thank you to every reader who sent us impassioned pleas and suggestions for recipes that must be made gluten-free, from shoofly pie to tater tot hot pot to red velvet cake. You missed your comfort foods and the ease of eating them at family gatherings and birthday parties. Thank you for trusting us to make these recipes right for you.
Thank you to every person who helped us arrange potlucks in community centers, church basements, and people’s homes across New England and down the length of California. We loved sharing food and laughter with you.
Thank you to Jovial Foods, Bakery on Main, and Attune Foods for sponsoring our road trips as well as providing gluten-free pasta, granola, and cereal for everyone who attended our potlucks. We love your food and your companies.
Thank you to Lauren Volo for her clear, sumptuous photographs, April Flores for her meticulous choice of props, and Mariana Velasquez for her incredible food styling for the photo shoot for this book. You made this food truly beautiful.
Thank you to the entire team at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for your hard work and close attention to detail, especially Jacqueline Beach, whose kind, gentle urgings to make the manuscript as clear as possible made this book much better.
Thank you to Justin Schwartz, as always, for insisting we pay close attention to every detail of every recipe and pushing us to write this book. We cannot imagine creating a cookbook without you editing it.
Thank you to Stacey Glick for being the best darned agent we could ever imagine. You’re our constant cheerleader and guiding voice.
Thank you to Claire Moncrief for coming into our professional lives just when we needed you most. You provided us with direction and so many laughs those long days in the studio. Without you, we wouldn’t have boxes of Gluten-Free Girl flour blends available for sale by the publication of this book.
Thank you to the 1563 people who backed our Kickstarter campaign to bring those flour blends to the market. The community came together to make magic happen and we are so grateful.
Thank you to our good friends who cheered us on, tested recipes, tasted dishes, and watched the kids when we were really in a crunch. Adrienne and Michael, Trish and Clint, Tracy and Kim, Anna and Michael, Tita and John, Gypsy and Steve, Andy and Dana, Richard and Mary, Alison and Scott, Sharon, and Sara and John—you are our community.
Thank you to our darling children, Lucy and Desmond. You are the light of our lives and the reason we work so hard. (Lu, this book is why Mama sometimes had to be on the computer at night when you came downstairs, supposed to be asleep, wanting me to read one more book. Let’s make beignets again.)
Thank you, finally, to all the loyal and generous readers of Gluten-Free Girl. You’ve changed our lives in an extraordinary fashion.