Judith Nichols

Chow Bella took a bite out of the holidays earlier this month with our annual "Eating Christmas" event at Crescent Ballroom. No worries if you missed it -- catch the essays here through the holiday season. The Kellers, like most people in Winifred, Kansas, in the 1940s, grew their own...

A taco is the no-brainer choice for gluten-freers. In fact, almost any Mexican food option usually will work because corn is the go-to grain south of the border. But you have to be careful, because some restaurants use corn tortillas that include wheat flour. I've had it happen more often...

I'm a longtime food truck fan, from way before food trucks were cool. During college in Hawaii, I regularly ate out of trucks parked on the Manoa campus. I ordered what Hawaiians call "plate lunches": an entrée served with two scoops of rice and one scoop of macaroni salad. It...

A delicious surprise appeared in front of me last month when a friend brought me some gluten-free doughnuts from Urban Cookies Bakeshop at 4711 North Seventh Street. Gluten-free doughnuts don't have the springy lift of traditional glazed doughnuts. They have a consistency more like a cake doughnut, which is really...

When you're gluten-free, your friends and family are always looking out for new places to go out for a meal together. It's a great gift to get a phone call or e-mail suggesting a new place to eat, sit, and share the day's events. Recently, as I switched jobs, many...