Why So Gluten Free?

Gluten-free Raspberry Vanilla Cake

If you've spent any time around the Moon, you've probably noticed the trend of gluten-free baked goods coming out of the kitchen. The Harvest Moon Crew has two motives for doing this:

~The first motive is because they love customers, including those who have celiac disease which causes a severely adverse reaction if the person eats gluten. I've come across a number of people who have this problem, and it always makes me thankful for my ability to, unlike them, eat quite liberally. I mean, doesn't it just break your heart when you see a child eyeing a brownie and then his parents tell him, "No no dear. I know that looks good, but it will hurt you if you eat it."? Because some- well, most- things have gluten, there are people who can't enjoy what the rest of us take for granted.

Gluten-free Raspberry Chocolate Cake

~The second reason why they continuously churn out gluten free products is because of a growing awareness of gluten intolerance in the general public and not just those with celiac disease. There's a trend of people researching gluten-free living and starting to question if that may be the solution to many of their present health problems. Research on the topic of whether gluten is harmful or helpful seems to vary. I'm not sure who to trust on this topic and therefore leave it to your discretion and research. But I will say that the popular consensus both professional and lay health-nuts give is that a gluten-free life is a happy life.

So there you have it. Go out and tell your gluten-free friends (either by choice or requirement) that there is a place that is baking up a storm of appetizing, edible, gluten-free stuff to stuff yourself with! And that place is called The Coolest Place on the Planet (a.k.a. Harvest Moon).

~The Harvest Crier~