Food Allergy and Celiac Guide to Eating Out and Traveling Wins Best Books 2006 National Award
CHICAGO, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ — The “Multi-Lingual Phrase Passport,” part of the “Let’s Eat Out! Your Passport to Living Gluten and Allergy Free” series, wins Best Books 2006 National Award in the Language Guides category from USABookNews.com.
The innovative pocket-sized guide empowers travelers with food allergies, celiac (an auto-immune disorder reflected in a permanent intolerance to gluten, the protein found in wheat, rye and barley), and those following specialized diets to safely eat outside the home. The award-winning “Passport” includes over 1200 food allergen phrases about corn, dairy, eggs, fish, gluten, peanuts, shellfish, soy, tree nuts, and wheat to confidently travel in foreign language-speaking countries.
These considerations outline ingredients, food preparation techniques, dining requests, breakfast dishes and health statements. Each phrase has been translated into French, German, Italian and Spanish by a professional translation service and validated by native speakers to ensure accuracy and contemporary cultural idioms.
Additionally, “Let’s Eat Out! Your Passport to Living Gluten and Allergy Free” (R & R Publishing) has been recognized as a USABookNews.com award- winning finalist for Best Health/Diet Book. Based on 4-plus years of research, this first-of-its-kind book is the foundation of the “Let’s Eat Out!” series. Designed to help people dine out safely, whether around the corner or around the world, it is also a 2006 Benjamin Franklin Award finalist for Best Health Book and Best First Book Non-Fiction.
The nearly 500-page full-color book is co-authored by Kim Koeller and Robert La France who collectively have traveled over 2 million miles and dined in 30-plus countries on four continents. Koeller, with an MBA in International Management, is a celiac businesswoman managing over a dozen food-related allergies while eating 80% of her meals away from home. La France is a restaurant industry veteran, with a passion for the culinary arts, who brings a unique understanding of how restaurant staffs can accommodate guests with special dietary needs.
USABookNews.com, the premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses, judged over 1200 entries in 120- plus categories. Winners and finalists included Simon & Schuster, Warner Books, R & R Publishing and other independent presses.
“This recognition is a tremendous honor. It is also an important validation of our mission to create pioneering educational resources that enable the 300 million people who manage specialized diets across the Western World regain their quality of life,” said Koeller. Added La France, “‘Let’s Eat Out!’ empowers individuals with the knowledge they need to be able to dine out and travel anywhere in the world with confidence and ease. More importantly, awards such as these help promote global awareness of food allergies and celiac/coeliac so they become universally understood and an accepted way of living.”
For more information, visit http://www.allergyfreepassport.com/ or
http://www.glutenfreepassport.com/. The series is available from R & R Publishing (http://www.rnrpublishing.com/), wholesalers, distributors, online and local bookstores worldwide.
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