What Publications are Saying About the Let’s Eat Out! Series

“Even if you don’t have a food allergy, food sensitivity, or celiac disease, you may see a patient or client who does. With conditions such as celiac disease, for example, many practitioners are seeing more new cases… For those of us who counsel individuals of this nature infrequently, Let’s Eat Out! is a useful guide to help teach folks to dine out safely while maintaining dietary compliance. Built on a framework of empowerment, Let’s Eat Out! dedicates itself to the world’s most cherished cuisines while managing 10 food bugaboos... Let’s Eat Out! is a thorough reference assistant to employ at home and when traveling…Packaged into a superbly professional, high-quality text, Let’s Eat Out! is useful for both patients and practitioners.”
- D. Milton Stokes, MPH, RD. Today’s Dietitian Magazine
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“Let’s Eat Out! …is a visa of sorts, giving diners with allergies access to a full range of information about major restaurant cuisines, ingredients and preparations. Building their book around the 10 most common food allergies, authors Kim Koeller and Robert La France instruct and anticipate, arming diners with a checklist of menu considerations…Thorough and comprehensive, the book might do well in the hands of operators as well. It gives an important overview of the seriousness of allergies–and how common allergens are in many foods, even those that don’t immediately seem suspect.”
- Jamie Popp, Restaurants & Institutions Magazine, US

“Author Kim Koeller was determined not to give up her world travels despites multiple food allergies and celiac disease. With restaurant industry veteran Robert La France, she creates a comprehensive guide for eating out whether at home (Canada or the US) or abroad. The pair focus primarily on avoiding gluten and wheat when ordering from menus, but other allergens are also addressed. The book itemizes dishes from seven cuisines… noting common allergens likely to be present. With food charts, global allergy websites, sources and translation for allergy-related phrases, Let's Eat Out! is an invaluable resource.”
- Dory Cerny, Allergic Living Magazine, Canada

“Allergy sufferers who are serious about eating out should probably invest in this series of books by coeliac allergy sufferer, Kim Koeller and her partner Robert La France. The idea of the book is to prepare prospective diners-out for everything that is likely to come their way. The main book, Let’s Eat Out!, looks at common ingredients and preparation techniques, and then at nine eating options – seven ethnic Thai, Mexican, Italian, etc plus breakfast and snack meals – and what risks these pose to the allergy sufferer. It provides prodigious quantities of information, dozens of easy reference tables, guidelines and contact details for traveling on any airline world-wide and essential phrases in the main European languages. Smaller ‘passports’ also provide a pocket size version for just one or two cuisines Chinese, Indian, and Thai for example– and a really useful multi- lingual French, German, Italian, and Spanish allergy phrase book.”
- Michelle Berriedale-Johnson, Foods Matter Newsletter, United Kingdom

“Do you suffer from food allergies? Do you travel often? Do you regularly eat fast food or in restaurants? Do you speak English? Then these books published in the United States may be helpful to you. They detail the traps found in cuisines from different countries and give hints as to which plates may contain the most common allergens… For identifying potentially hazardous dishes, the information is very complete for those affected by wheat allergies and Celiac disease…The main book being rather heavy, the authors developed small dedicated guides for different cuisines and translations in Spanish, Italian, German and French.”
- Nadia Steenbeek, ASBL Prévention Allergies, Belgium
(Translated from French)

“A new book titled Let’s Eat Out! …is now available to help folks who have allergy and gluten problems…Both of the authors have spent years preparing to author this book. Koeller is herself … a celiac. She had to learn how to handle that condition while constantly traveling around the world and eating away from home… This is a very carefully crafted book with loads of good information…. These tools are very easy to use with color tabs on the chapter pages allowing the reader to open the book quickly to the desired topic. Laymen’s terms make the reading easy and there is excellent indexing for the entire book.”
- Dee Ann Ray, Clinton Oklahoma Daily News, US
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“Check out the new Let's Eat Out! book from GlutenFree Passport… It is a book that reviews different types of American and ethnic cuisines with helpful translations of key menu phrases. There are also little "mini-guides" for each cuisine to carry with you while traveling to help you avoid the top ten food allergens.”
- Carol Fenster PhD. Savory Palate Inc. , US

“ Food allergies shouldn't stop anyone from traveling and dining and a new guide, Let's Eat Out! can help.”
– Douglas Levy, The Oakland Press, US

“Let’s Eat Out! gives celiac patients and other food allergy sufferers strategies for eating out safely.”
- John Rice, Forest Park Review, US

“Koeller and La France must have the minds of engineers the way this book is laid out. With the feel of a school textbook complete with detailed charts and bullet points, they equip even the most unaware eater to the hazards and possibilities of dining out. It's no surprise that this book was a 2006 Benjamin Franklin Award finalist for Best Health Book and Best First Book Non-Fiction.

This book is especially good for those who are afraid or overwhelmed with the challenge of eating out on the gluten-free diet and even more daunting, with mutiple food allergies… "Knowledge is power" is the saying that comes to mind while perusing the pages of this guide. And that's exactly what the authors wanted to do; empower people with special diets to successfully navigate eating out anywhere.

… The extra passport I'll be packing with me on my next international adventure will be the Multi-Lingual Phrase Passport, which has 1,200 phrases in four languages for any food situation you may need to communicate.
Let's Eat Out! really lives up to its name by teaching you to communicate your needs and showing you what foods are traditionally safe. With a passport like this, the travel bug is sure to bite you soon!”
- Kelly, Celiac Chicks Web Log