The best way to study another culture is to live in it. But if you can’t travel, meeting people of a new culture through their food is the next best thing. The University of Delaware has a weird schedule where the month of January and a bit of February turn into an optional 5-week Winter… Continue reading Grade A Dining Experience
Another November, another wonderful FARE Summit! Last weekend, I had the opportunity to return to FARE’s annual conference to speak about going to college with food allergies. This year, two more college students (Aly and Caroline) joined our panel in addition to Allison and Anna, who spoke with me last year. Together, we formed a… Continue reading Conference A-FAREs
This past weekend I had the opportunity to go to a FARE Hometown Heroes Walk in Wilmington DE. I had previously gone to a FARE Walk in 2014 when it was at the Camden Riversharks Stadium, but these two walks were very different in terms of scale and function of the event. Back in 2014,… Continue reading Feeling #FAREaware
Today is an incredibly special day for so many reasons. Not only is today Mother’s Day, but it’s also the beginning of Food Allergy Awareness Week, and I think that these two events go hand in hand. As a child who grew up with food allergies, a big part of my “growing up” dealt with… Continue reading To Mom: My First Allergy Advocate
Imagine living in a world where each meal you eat might be your only meal for the next two days. Where you must scavenge for anything to get you by so that you can have some slim chance to be able to beat the cycle of poverty to make life better for you and your… Continue reading Food Allergies and Food Insecurity