At 22, Danielle Walker was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory disease that attacks the colon. A simple blood test revealed a long list of food sensitivities. This set her on a years-long trial-and-error quest to fashion a diet that required minimal digestive processes, which she details in inviting, conversational prose.
Walker follows her grain-free and gluten-free cookbooks with this unflinching chronicle of dealing with an autoimmune disease and her path to discovering food’s “amazing power to heal.”