taste magazine

Gluten Free

Recipes!!!

Tastes

In this edition you can find...

International Food

Healthy Living

The Food Magazine

Tastes - The Food Magazine

Credits

Tastes—The Food

Magazine

Vice President / Editor in Chief — Gabriel Garcia

Group Managing Editor — Luisa Li

Art Director — Marcela Fonseca

Editorial

Features Editor — Luisa Li

Senior Editor — Marcela Fonseca

Associate Editor — Gabriel Garcia

Tastes is published by Grupo Nacion Media

Tastes—The Food Magazine

Table of Contents

Features

Gluten Free Foods

What is celiac disease………………………..4

What ingredients should avoid….. ………..5

Healthy Foods

Definition and diet…………………………...6

Why the people prefere fast food instead of healthy fodd…...7

International Foods

Livyan food…………………………………....8

Homus recipe serves 3-4…………………..9

To the reader ……………………………..10

Refferences…………………………………11

Page 4


Gluten Free Foods

What is celiac disease?

Celiac disease is a disorder that causes problems in your

small intestine when you eat gluten, a protein found in

wheat, rye and barley. Gluten is poison to people with

celiac disease.

What does gluten do to people who have

celiac disease?

Gluten damages the small intestine of people who have

celiac disease. This damage keeps your body from taking in many of the nu-

trients from the foods you eat, including vitamins, calcium, protein, carbohy-

drates, fats and other importante nutrients. Your body can´t work well wit-

hout these nutrients.

In which foods gluten is found?

People with celiac disease should avoid the following foods:

Bread, cakes, pretzels, muffins, pancakes, couscous, pizza, all Bran,

sauces thickened with flour, any foodd made with flour, drinking cho-

colate, salad dressings, White pepper, malt vinegar, gravy powders,

etc.

In this section of the magazine you will find some receipes for those who ne-

ed a Gluten free diet.

Turkey Burgers with Feta and Dill

Ingredients (serves 2)

1/2 lb extra lean ground turkey

1 Tablespoon chopped fresh dill 2-3 oz fresh feta cheese, crumbled

salt and pepper to taste

Spicy Sweet Potato Side

1 teaspoon grapeseed oil (you can sub olive oil) 2-4 shallots, sliced

2-3 jalapenos, sliced 1 medium sweet potato, grated

salt and pepper to taste romaine hearts

In a bowl, combine turkey, dill and feta. Shape with your hands into two burger patties and set aside.In a medium non-stick skillet, heat oil

over medium heat. Add shallots and jalapenos and sauté until the shallots are soft and beginning to caramelize (about 10 minutes). Add

the shredded sweet potato and stir until the sweet potato is warmed through (about 3-5 minutes).Heat grill (or your grill pan/george

foreman for my fellow Nyers) and cook the burgers over med-high heat. (quick tip – I like to make turkey burgers a little thinner than

burgers made with beef to make sure they cook through without losing too much moisture)Serve with gluten-free bread or hamburger

buns.


What do costaricans know about gluten? By Marcela Fonseca

Celiac disease is a very new illness in Costa Rica and in the world. People always confuse this disease

with stomach ache or other digestive problems. For example, some symptoms of celiac disease are

abdominal bloating and pain, chronic diarrhea, vomiting, constipation and weight loss. These problems

are usually related as normal consequences of bad digestion.

Therefore, other worst problems appear like unexplained iron

deficiency anemia, fatigue, bone or joint pain, arthritis, bone

loss or osteoporosis, depression or anxiety, missed

menstrual periods and infertility or recurrent miscarriage. As

a result of these symptoms, the person has to visit the doctor

and ask for specialized exams, like blood test or intestinal

biopsy to diagnose the celiac disease.

Once the person is diagnosed with celiac disease the lifestyle

has to change immediately and has to begin with a gluten free

diet. The most commons foods that include gluten are any

kind of bread, pastas or any that contents wheat, rye and

barley. In this specific kind of diet there is not enough information for the people consequently has to

begin a process of education to the population.

For example, if a celiac patient decides to eat outside there

are not many options in the market. Almost all the fast foods

contain wheat, rye and barley in their preparations. Rye and

barley is not consume very often by costaricans, but in the

case of wheat it can be found in: bread, cakes, pasta, fried

chicken, ¨empanadas¨, pies, tortillas, any kind of meat that is

breaded and many kinds of desserts. Hopefully, there are new

kinds of flour and pasta for celiacs in the national market and

the products have been increasing the presence in our

supermarkets and stores.

It is a big challenge to the restaurants in Costa Rica, to

prepare a specialized menu for the celiac disease patients in

order to attract them to visit their restaurants. In Costa Rica

there is one restaurant in Escazu that offers a gluten-free

menu. I think that the government has to force the restaurants

to include in their menus the information of the amount of

calories and if it includes wheat, rye or barley to make an

easier way to choose the right food for the consumers.

Finally, It is important to mention that in Costa Rica we do

not have many information about the celiac disease and

we have to learned a lot of this illness. Tastes The Food

Magazine is compromised with our readers to give them

the right information and new recipes that make their life

easier and delicious.


Healthy Food

Definition and diet...

Most of the people mistakenly think that to eat healthy food is to consume only vegetables and fruits, when actually is necessary to feed with a diet balance. Inci-dentally, to clarify the meaning of “diet” how is a regulated selection of foods namely not only vegeta-bles and legumes.

Some tips to eat healthy…

Weekly healthy Menu

Plan your meals by the week or even the month. Is important that you take a few

momentsto plan the dishes of the week, and if is possible cooked and safety in a

containers on the refrigerator. Careful with pre-cooked dishes. Delicious, fast

and economically they are. But see the informational nutrition chart first to

determinate the nutritional value. Take the food to work. If you are that they

work full-time is a excellent idea to take home food and not by junk food Go for

the healthiest fast food restaurants. Try to select restaurants that have a healthy


Healthy

Food

Why the people prefer fast food instead of healthy food? By Gabriel Garcia H.

Nowadays our life it is becomes to be much accelerated, for different reasons that indirectly affect our everyday life. One of the most important, that is affected is part of our bodies, with the type of food that we consume. Hamburgers, chips, canned soft drinks and snacks are examples of fast food that usually we eat and replace for healthy food that have more nutritional benefits. People has the erratic thought that to eat healthy food is expensive and very complex, however is more easier than you can imagine. Sometimes, we need to kwon how to buy intelligently. The supermarkets have days of fruits and vegetables where you can find special prices and offers in very nice quality of products. Just take few minutes in your house to prepare a healthy menu instead of fast food. This is one of the reasons that people prefers this kind of food.

There is other that knows about healthy food but they do not have enough time to prepare and go at the supermarket in days mentioned so they choose fast food rather than healthy food because is most quickly and easy. Obviously they aware about the calories, fat and little nutritional value but in spite of it consume to satiate their hunger. Also, other important reason that why the people prefer

fast food instead of healthy food are the very nice and interesting advertisings that restaurants of fast food have, speaking of the best known, besides that benefit to eat healthy food compares with fast food does not have comparison in nutritional facts terms. To conclude, healthy food must be a compromise of every restaurant that sell a complete menu. How everybody knows, this idea it could be a magical petition, therefore if we wants to eat healthy food, we need to begin cooking ourselves food or if we are going to eat in a restaurant try to select a dish lower in fat. Also if you have problems of overweight check yourself with a specialist and starts to eat more healthy. Do it.


Libyan is nation from the north of Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north. This country is the fourth largest country in Af-rica and also they have the highest life expectancy with 77.65 years. The Libyan econ-omy it depends on the oil sec-tor. In addition on that 95% of their exports are from petro-leum that is why Libya is one of the richest countries in Africa. In this country the agriculture is limited because they pre-sent an unfavorable climatic condition and poor soil, as a result Libya imports about 75% of its food. Libya culture revolves around their popular traditions with music festivals and dance, the folk music is typically Arab.

Libyan cuisine is generally simple but not less taste. Libyan food is probably the most popular and well know out of all the middle-east cuisine and it can be find around the world. These recipes have the perfect mix of products such as fish, meat (lamb and camel), vegetables and fruits. Their four traditional ingredients are the olives, palm dates, grains and milk. As a result Libyan

food is not only healthy food, but they also have a great taste. One of the most popular and traditional food from Libya is the couscous, this was made from the hard part of the durum, but nowadays in-dustries treat this product and is sold in markets. Other very fa-mous and traditional food is the Lebanese breads, especially the flat Pita bread is an integral part of home-made Lebanese food. The flat Pita is use to eat with a very delicious and famous dip called Hummus. In the Libya the alcohol consumption is illegal that is why the typically drink is the tea especially black tea or refreshing teas.

International

Food

Libyan Food

International Food


In Costa Rica to find Libyan food is very easy, for example in the supermarket sells the flat Pita and different type of breads. Here in Costa Rica Libyan restaurants now are more popular for their spe-cial, tasty and different kind of food. In these restaurants we can find vegetarian plates and also recipes with lamb. Some Libyan restaurants that can we mention here in Costa Rica are for exam-ple Lubnan, this is located in the Paseo Colon in this place they offer a great variety of Lebanese food beside the make traditional dance presentation; Sash is other restaurant where people can taste Libyan food in a place that have a unique decoration repre-senting Libya culture, this is located in Rohrmoser; Nikklas is also a restaurant but here they specialize in fast food like lamb ham-burger and hummus with flat Pita. In conclusion there are no ex-cuses to not taste the Libyan food For the ultimate hummus dish, follow these simple instructions: Drain the chick peas and rinse well, then put in a saucepan with plenty of water and cook over high heat till it starts boiling, then lower the heat and simmer covered for about one and a half hours, or until the chick peas are soft to the touch, alternatively, use tin-ned chick peas ( 2 tins of 445g each). Drain the cooked chickpeas and put in a food processor with all other ingredients till they beco-me a soft paste. Empty in a flat dish and decorate with some pars-ley leafs and drizzle with good quality olive oil. Serve with warm pitta bread.

Hummus recipe serves 3 – 4

Ingredients

2 cups dry chickpeas (to be rinsed and

drained before use) soaked in water and

1/2 tsp.

3 cloves of garlic crushed

1/2 cup tahini ( sesame seeds paste )

1/4 cup lemon juice

Salt & pepper

Garnish

1 pinch smoked paprika

1 t e a s p o o n f r e s h p a r s -

ley or 1 teaspoon fresh cilantro, minced


Healthy Foods

You the reader, at the end of this article you could be able

to identify how to eat healthy and economically inside or

outside of your house, besides to identify and select

different food rich in vitamins, proteins and carbohydrates.

Start tomorrow eating healthy.

Gluten Free Foods

The information related to this topic will guide the reader to

find how food can make the person sick or suffer a disease.

Besides, includes the type of food that has to be avoid by

the celiacs. In addition, includes an example of a recipe

that is Gluten-Free.

International Foods

For all the food fanatics out there and also for the one how

like to discover exotic and a taste different food, this is the

perfect food magazine here you can find to newest, healthy

and international. To taste international food and know a

little about the country is not necessary to travel distance.

This magazine offers an easy way to prepare delicious

international recipes.

To the reader


Gluten Free Foods

Familydoctor.org: http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/digestive/

disorders/236.html

Celiac disease: http://www.celiac.com/

Gluten Free—Diet http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/gluten-free-diet/my01140

Healthy Food

PIC Daily. http://pic.tv/daily/2011/08/05/5-tips-to-eat-out-healthy/

Food &Drinks innovation Network. http://www.fdin.org.uk/

Food as Food. http://www.foodasfood.com/

International Food

Lebanese Recipes. (2001). Recuperado el 25 de Octuber de 2011, de http://

www.lebaneserecipes.com/Hummus.htm

References

Phoneo: 555-555-5555

Fax: 555-555-5555

Email: [email protected]

San Jose, Costa Rica


taste magazine

Documents

foods gluten

food magazine tastes

symptoms of celiac disease

marcela fonseca celiac

glutenfree bread

gluten free diet

gluten free recipes

international food healthy