55KRC & What’s Hot Radio: Gluten-Free and Glorious

So here’s where the lovefest begins – with savvy foodies like Erin and Shauna, for whom gluten does happen to be a bad thing. They’ve tailored their lives to accommodate their sensitivities, and they’ve never been happier.

Listen to the gluten-free radio show here.

For me, it was like getting sucked into a fascinating round of Double Jeopardy! Just one fact after the other coming right at me, and I never even knew the right questions to ask. When we invited Erin Swing Romanos, The Sensitive Epicure, and Shauna James Ahern, The Gluten-Free Girl, to join us on our weekly food-focused radio lovefest, What’s Hot with Molly, Kelly, and Caitlin, I knew I had a lot to learn about the buzz word “gluten,” but I had no idea about how much I had no idea.

Very generally, gluten is a protein found in wheat, barley, rye, oats, and spelt; specifically, there are all sorts of very particular clarifications. It has become overwhelmingly prevalent in our modern food culture, and it shows up in places you’d least expect it. In and of itself, gluten is not a bad thing…unless it’s a bad thing.

So here’s where the lovefest begins – with savvy foodies like Erin and Shauna, for whom gluten does happen to be a bad thing. They’ve tailored their lives to accommodate their sensitivities, and they’ve never been happier. Listen in for an hour of deeelicious chatter on Italian corn pastas, Frito-Lay chips, the most nutritional food in the world, and what’s up next for cake. (Fans of Jeopardy! fun facts will be particularly delighted by mentions of Ethiopia, stats including “23 million,” and The Hardware Store with no hardware; dig in.)