About me
I am a professor of Italian at St. Thomas Aquinas College in Rockland County, New York. In addition to teaching 100 students a year, I write articles and books usually about Dante and music. I just published a very different book: The Gluten-Free Guide to New York.
I have been gluten-free for several years due to hyperneuropathy. I have gluten-intolerance, or gluten sensitivity, while my daughter has celiac disease. She has been gluten-free for five years.
When I went to college at Columbia and graduate school at Harvard, almost 20 years ago, I had never heard of gluten-free. Even then, however, I should have gone gluten-free instead of undergoing four operations for nerve problems.
Now people all around me are going gluten-free — my students, my neighbors, my close friends– and they all feel so much better!
As more and more young people go gluten-free, we need to focus on the issue of celiacs at college. And thus the blog is born. College students, please share with others your gf experiences. Parents and prospective college students, please use their advice and suggestions!
