• NEW COMPLEMENTARY THERAPISTS' DIRECTORY
  
  Our new complementary therapies practitioner directory is taking slightly longer to compile than originally anticipated as we are including information and links to the professional body/bodies for each therapy.
  We hope for a launch date in early May.
  
  ARTICLES, REPORTS AND RECIPES
  
  Allergy and total allergy
  
  
• Formulae for adult consumption
  Following on from Sarah Merson’s article on infant formulae, Sarah and two Foods Matter subscribers, Isobel Bracewell and John Scott (both of whom live on infant formulae) look at how these foods can help adults with severe or total food intolerance.
  
  
• The hidden menace of lupin flour
  Dr Harry Morrow Brown takes a look at this dangerous food which can cause death and should be more widely understood, especially by peanut allergics.
  
  Dairy allergy/intolerance & Infant and Child Illnesses
  
  
• Soya Infant Formulae
  Parents may chose a soya formula for ethical or cultural reasons - or because their baby cannot be breast fed and cannot tolerate the standard cow’s milk formulae. But are they safe?
  Following on from her investigations last month into hydrolysed and elemental cow’s milk formulae, Sarah Merson now checks out the soya versions.
  
  Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
  

• MCS - an overview
  At the age of 11 Matthew Hogg was diagnosed with CFS/ME and his illness eventually included allergies, multiple chemical sensitivity, irritable bowel syndrome/gut dysbiosis/candida,
  and various mental and emotional problems including depression, anxiety and insomnia.
  He has now created a website - www.ei-resource.org - which includes a feast of other articles, research reports and useful information.
  
  Travel - New York and France
  

• Dining allergen-free in NY
  Sloane Miller writes and edits www.allergicgirl.blogspot.com
  detailing her adventures in allergen-free eating while Foods Matter looks at the great range of holidays on offer at the
  Chateau de Villars in the northern Dordogne.
  
  
• Staying in a free-from chateau in the Dordogne
  Foods Matter looks at the great range of holidays on offer at the
  Chateau de Villars in the northern Dordogne.
  
  Book review
  
  
• They are what you feed them by Dr Alex Richardson.
  How food can improve your child's behaviour, mood and learning.
  
  

New Recipes

• Fish soup
  Wheat, gluten, corn, dairy, nightshade & egg free; can be soya free
  A very easy, but impressive soup which could be served as a dish on its own or as a starter.
  
  
• Pasta and curly kale salad with pumpkin seeds
  Dairy, corn, nightshade & egg free; can be wheat & gluten free
  Curly kale is delicious but you do need to be very careful to remove all its stems which are very tough. Wecombined it with a spelt pasta.
  
  
• Aubergine and smoked haddock burgers with red pepper salad
  Wheat, gluten, dairy, corn, soya & egg free
  An unusual way of using aubergines...
  
  
• Rhubarb and ginger cake
  Wheat, gluten, corn & soya free; can be dairy free
  This cake is particularly delicious served warm as a dessert - you can pour the lovely juice over it or drink it as a dessert wine! But, if you do not finish it as a dessert, it still tastes great with a cup of tea the next day.