This was a new experience for me, dealing with gluten and food issues...since one of my good friends has celiac disease.
A lot of the stuff I take for granted would nuke him. When we were delivering his sailboat last spring, we were fortunate to find a small market that had a huge gluten-free section about five minutes from where we had the boat. This was a real eye-opener for both him and me. Fortunately, awareness of celiac disease and related food-borne problems is better, and there are now alternatives for many traditionally gluten-laden foods. Rice-based pastas are a good example. While some of these aren't quite up to the flavorful standards of what they're replacing, they provide a reasonable alternative at least.
My favorite moment from the delivery last spring was when Mary was making lunch the first day, chicken salad IIRC. Unbeknowst to John, we had bought some gluten free sandwich wraps. She offered him a wrap for lunch, and he tried explaining he couldn't eat it... then we explained, that he was wrong... it was safe for him to eat—since we had bought him some gluten free wraps, so that he wouldn't be forced into making his own meals when we were having sandwiches or wraps... I think that if he had had to make his own separate meals, it would have created some distance between all of us on that delivery.
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You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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