Last year, I wrote a short piece about my allergy to White Oak. Thank you, Sheree, for your reply. I am sorry I have been so slow to reply to you. I had a baby in March and have neglected many things in the mean time, including paperblag. Sheree asked whether or not white wine [...]

For my daughter’s Halloween potluck, I wanted to bring a treat that would be healthy, tasty, toddler friendly, and thematically appropriate. So I trolled the Internet looking for ideas. Almost everything I found was sugary and full of empty calories. Then I found an article by Kimberly Bilger MPH, RD, LD, Pediatric Dietitian at Marni Paul [...]

I used to think I had some sort of allergy to red wine. Sometimes when I would open a bottle with friends, the very first sip would cause me to break out in hives. My lips and sometimes eyelids would swell up and I’d have to stop drinking that bottle of wine. It was very [...]