Name: Wine & Sign Party and Dinner Buffet
Start: 2014-09-27T18:00:00-0700
End: 2014-09-27T22:00:00-0700

Wine & Sign Party and Dinner Buffet

We invite you to join us for the “Wine & Sign” Cocktail Party & Book Club Saturday Night, September 27, 2014. As a part of our conference, we would like to celebrate the many FABulous book authors we have in our community! We will allow our published authors to display their books, sell their books, or sign the copies you already own.

For our attendees: Bring your home copy if you want to have it signed, or you may leave a comment here for an author prior to the conference if you would like to pre-order a book then pick up your copy during this event! We look forward to having you join us for food, wine, conversation and books!

Speakers

Kyle Dine

Educator and Musician, Anaphylaxis Canada

Kyle Dine is a trusted food allergy educator and musician who performs allergy awareness assemblies across North America. He educates students in elementary schools about allergies, anaphylaxis and what they can do to help maintain an allergy-safe school environment. He has multiple... Read More →

Authors and Artists

Debbie Adler

Owner, Author, Sweet Debbie's Organic Cupcakes

Debbie Adler is the owner of the nationally renown bakery Sweet Debbie’s Organic Cupcakes located in Los Angeles. In addition to owning her bakery, Debbie is the author of the critically acclaimed cookbook, Sweet Debbie’s Organic Treats: Allergy-free & Vegan Recipes from... Read More →

Dr. Donna DeCosta

Founder and CEO, FoodASC

Donna DeCosta, MD is a radiologist and the married mother of two sons with life-threatening food allergies. Her desire to help other families navigate the challenges and risks of severe food allergy led her to create and publish , A Little Bit CAN Hurt: The Shocking Truth about Food... Read More →

Erica Dermer

Blogger, Celiac and the Beast

Erica Dermer is founder and head celiac in charge of Celiac and the Beast. She started her website because she felt like she had a new and humorous voice to bring to the gluten-free table, and desperately needed some celiac catharsis through writing and blogging. With a background in marketing and market research and development (including the food and... Read More →

Henry Ehrlich

Author, Food Allergies: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Western Science, and the Search for a Cure

Henry Ehrlich is co-author of Asthma Allergies Children: a parent’s guide with Dr. Lawrence Chairamonte and Dr. Paul Ehrlich, board-certified pediatric allergists, and editor of AsthmaAllergiesChildren.com, which they founded in tandem with publication of the book because “medicine moves faster than print.” A former corporate speechwriter, Henry has also published books on speechwriting, adoption, sleep medicine (co-author), business quotations, and edited Children’s Allergies and Asthma: one of nature’s dirt... Read More →

Dr. Paul Ehrlich

Partner, Allergy and Asthma Associates of Murray Hill

Dr. Paul M. Ehrlich was educated at Columbia University, trained in pediatrics at Bellevue Hospital at NYU, and allergy and immunology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He is a partner at Allergy and Asthma Associates of Murray Hill, clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at... Read More →

Alisa Fleming

Author, Go Dairy Free

Alisa Fleming founded the largest dairy-free website, GoDairyFree.org, in 2004, which is now host to over 2 million unique special diet visitors per year. She has since written and published the best-selling dairy-free book, Go Dairy Free: the Guide and Cookbook for Milk All... Read More →

Laurel Francoeur

Owner, Greenlaurel Solutions LLC

Laurel Francoeur graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science and a minor in Philosophy. She is also a graduate of Suffolk Law School and has been a practicing lawyer since 1996. She is a support group leader for the... Read More →

Dr. Ruchi Gupta

Author, Doctor, The Food Allergy Experience

Dr. Ruchi Gupta is an internationally recognized expert on food allergy, and a parent of a child with allergies. She has published some landmark manuscripts including the food allergy prevalence study showing 1 in 13 kids have food allergy and a recent economic study showing food... Read More →

Beth Hillson

Food Editor, Gluten Free & More

Beth Hillson is a food writer, author and blogger. She is the food editor for Gluten Free & More and writes and lectures frequently on the gluten-free diet and lifestyle as well as other special diet needs. Beth was diagnosed with celiac disease in 1976 and attended culinary... Read More →

Pam Jordan

Author / Blogger, I'm a Celiac

Pam Jordan was diagnosed with Celiac Disease in January 2011 after struggling for fifteen years with symptoms. She is a working wife and mom to three young kids. Her blog, ImaCeliac.com, provides simple Gluten Free recipes, product reviews, restaurant reviews, and giveaways... Read More →

Kristen Kauke

Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Registered Yoga Teacher, Wellness Within of Fox Valley, LLC

I specialize in uniting the many parallels between Eastern and Western systems of healing. I am well-versed in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Yoga-Informed Psychotherapy, as well as yoga for building emotional regulation and connection... Read More →

Rivka Kawano

Author, What To Post: A Complete Guide to Effective Social Media

Rivka Kawano is a social media expert, speaker, and author of the book What To Post: A Complete Guide to Effective Social Media. She also has first hand experience with the danger that food allergies present and loves to help people find ways to reach their audience with this important... Read More →

Jan Hanson, M.A.

Founder, Educating For Food Allergies, LLC

Jan Hanson, M.A. is a nationally recognized food allergy educator, author and speaker.She founded her consulting company, Educating For Food Allergies, LLC in 2001, andprovides guidance to families and school personnel in food allergy management. She isthe author of the book, Food... Read More →

Colette Martin

Author, Learning to Bake Allergen-Free: A Crash Course for Busy Parents on Baking without Wheat, Gluten, Dairy, Eggs, Soy or Nut

Colette Martin is a food allergy mom, an expert on how to bake allergen-free, and author of Learning to Bake Allergen-Free: A Crash Course for Busy Parents on Baking without Wheat, Gluten, Dairy, Eggs, Soy or Nuts. When her son was diagnosed with allergies to wheat, milk, eggs, soy... Read More →

Robyn O'Brien

Author, The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It

Robyn O’Brien, a former food industry analyst, author, and mother of four, triggered an allergic reaction in the food world when she asked a simple question: “Are we allergic to our food or what’s been done to it?” She brings compassion, insight and detailed analysis to... Read More →

Cybele Pascal

CYBELE PASCAL is the author of three bestselling cookbooks, Allergy-Free and Easy Cooking, The Allergen-Free Baker's Handbook and The Whole Foods Allergy Cookbook. She has appeared on The Martha Stewart Show, the Food Network, the Today show, Good Morning America Health, PBS, and... Read More →

April Runge

Author, Gordy and the Magic Diet

April Runge is a marketing research consultant and mom, but declares she should have honorary credentials as a special needs educator, specialty diet chef and triage nurse while raising their two children with different medical conditions—allergies, asthma and epilepsy. April co-authored... Read More →

Lori Sandler

Founder, Divvies

Lori Sandler is the founder of Divvies, a fun, national brand of delicious snacks made in Divvies own dedicated nut, egg & dairy free bakery, located in South Salem, NY. Her youngest son, Benjamin, is the inspiration behind Divvies. When he was diagnosed with severe food allergies... Read More →

Jules Shepard

Owner, Jules Gluten Free

Jules Shepard, a celiac diagnosed in 1999, and an indomitable perfectionist with a penchant for equality and fairness, this former prosecuting attorney was simply unwilling to accept the dry, gritty, vacuous foods that were the norm then. Two years in her kitchen, and Jules had perfected... Read More →

Stacey Stratton

Peanut Free Zone

Stacey Stratton is using her BA in Communications, MA in Special Education, and experience as an educator, to work with parents and schools in communicating the special needs of children with food allergies. Her book, Allergies at School, is a resourceful guide for parents w... Read More →

Tiffany

Artist, Food Allergy Fun

Maya Trimner

Author, Invisible Disability

Maya Trimner is an artist, e-book author and former makeup-artist who has lived with severe multiple food allergies since birth. She describes her life-threatening struggles with many various topics affecting the food allergy community on her blog, www.mayashappyplace.com where she hopes that newly diagnosed people can gain some useful information or support from her words. Her e-book, Invisible Disability talks about the most personal issues affecting young people with food allergies and gluten sensitivities, such as intimacy, relationships an... Read More →

Susan Weissman

Author, Feeding Eden: The Trials and Triumphs of a Food Allergy Family

Susan Weissman was an English teacher long before she was a mother, but children changed her life in ways she’d not foreseen. Her son Eden is allergic to seven of the “Big 8” food allergens. She devoted herself to learning about our vexing modern epidemic and parents in... Read More →

Saturday September 27, 2014 6:00pm - 10:00pm PDT
Exhibit Hall D

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