ABOUT ME
Who am I? I am a Seeker, a Woman who is on her way in search of the Truth. I have learned that the answers depend on the depth of the questions, so I pay more attention to the questions I ask than to what answers I find. I’m looking for questions, not answers. I read, I learn, I write, I create. I became a nutrition technician to ask the best questions for ready-made answers, in a rigorous manner. I create gluten-free and dairy-free recipes wondering where the limit is, in a dizzying mix of ingredients, amazingly discovering unprecedented tastes and flavors, like in a fairy tale that addresses the senses. Sense and Sensibility.
If the wheat did not exist, we humans would not be extinct. Sure, the world would have been different, but humans would have lived on Earth and not starved to death. When the hunter-gatherer discovered the wheat and turned himself into a farmer, the wheat became man’s master, along with his younger brother, the rice. Wheat put his “slave”, the man, to work hard: he plowed the land, sowed, reaped under the scorching July sun, built great “palaces” for His Majesty The Wheat, invented all sorts of tools and substances so the wheat might flourish, and the wheat paid in with fine food, as a good master. He was ruthless with other grains that also wanted a share of the market, tolerating only rice, which feeds a quarter of the world’s population, because he could not enter the rice-dominated area.
But what do you know? Now some of the slaves are revolting. They say that the Great Master is no longer what he once was, but now he is fat and puffy, ruthless and careless with slaves, whom he hurts and makes sick. And those slaves have allied themselves with his enemies, the pseudo-cereals, and they want to dethrone him. The Great Millet and The Mighty Buckwheat, The Tiny Amaranth and The Exotic Quinoa, even the annoying Chia, all came together and want to help people get rid of their dependence on the Almighty Wheat. It’s a hard and uneven fight, and it’s just the beginning. Pseudo-cereals are looking for allies among humans. More and more of them deserted from slavery and joined the fight. I’m one of them. With my weapons, writing, kitchen scale, camera and personal example, I fight on the front against oppression consisting of intolerances, allergies and autoimmune diseases triggered or maintained by modern wheat through its representative, gluten. For 10 years I have been proving that one can live without wheat, even if it is the dominant cereal. Even if some are skeptical, I am living proof that I eat healthy and feel good, even though I have had ankylosing spondylitis for over 30 years, and I live as active a life as I can without eating wheat.
Who am I? Seeker, Fighter, Apprentice and Teacher. Welcome to my fairy tale!