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Just because you have food allergies
doesn't mean you have to give up eating

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the foods you love.  My name is Jessica
Gray Schipp and I am the writer of

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#AllergicToEverything®.
It's my first cookbook and I really am

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allergic to everything. Wheat, gluten, soy,
eggs, shellfish, corn, oats.  In November of

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2012, my body was literally shutting down
on me. I had been dealing with miserable

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symptoms for about three years.
Everything from styes to hives to

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conjunctivitis to a swollen face. I was
going to see every single type of doctor

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that I could think of. Everything from
dermatologists, to GI specialists, to

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allergists and my body had just had
enough. And after enough trips to the

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emergency room and to urgent care
centers, I finally realized that the only

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choice that I had was to cook.  Everything.
I learned to read labels and research

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the thousands of names
ingredients hide under. For the last six

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years I've been cooking and writing. At
the end of the day nobody should have to

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spend five hours figuring out the best
way to make a muffin.  And what started as

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a mode of survival reconnected me with
what I love most about food,  how it

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connects us with each other.
It makes memories. The book became more

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than just a collection of recipes. It
turned into a one-stop resource, cookbook,

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and lifestyle guide for people like me
with multiple food allergies.  I need your

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help to make #AllergicToEverything® be all that it can be.  You're

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not only funding a cookbook, but you're
helping a community of food allergy

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collectors who don't have another
resource like this one. Please support my

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campaign,
please keep cooking for the allergics you

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love, and please share my story.

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Very ready.

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Okay.

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Okay, sorry [giggles].

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Cut.

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Totally. Mmm.

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Mmmmm.

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That is so good [giggles].

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It's perfect on a cold night too.

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Mmm.

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I love it, so into it.

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[cheers]

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...to Chef Jess!

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Cheers to Jess.

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Chef Jess.