Jax Peters Lowell

The American Library Association’s Booklist names The Gluten-Free Revolution one of the “Top 10 Food Books of 2015!”

With keen intelligence, humor, a trademark gift for storytelling, and the help of the best medical experts in the field, Jax Peters Lowell provides the essential road map to the pleasures, pitfalls, and practicalities of what it means to be gluten-free today.

Izzie wasn't very tall for seven. Not even for six. Or five. Even if she stood on her tippy, tippy toes, her pony tail, just reached the top of Daddy's chair." So begins the tale of the little girl who believes that by eating lots of cupcakes, she will get tall, maybe even tall enough to be a ballerina. Too many cupcakes cause a tummy ache and the trouble starts. Living gluten-free isn't a piece of cake until Izzie learns that being special is really what makes you tall. Beautifully illustrated and with a foreword by Alessio Fasano, M.D., Director of the Center for Celiac Research, Lowell's charming and emotionally honest tale, complete with resources and a real-life happy ending in the form of a gluten- and lactose-free cupcake recipe from Whole Foods Market Gluten-Free Bakehouse chef Lee Tobin, will live in the hearts of parents and children for generations to come. "

A Commemorative Edition of this highly acclaimed ground-breaking novel which continues to reach new generations.

In an enchanting, moving debut, Jax Peters Lowell explores the powerful bonds of love and family, and creates characters who will remain in your heart long after the final page is turned.

The definitive guide to the gluten-free lifestyle, completely revised and updated for the 2.2 million Americans with celiac disease

According to a landmark 2003 National Institutes of Health study, 2.2 million Americans suffer from celiac disease, an allergy to the protein gluten found in wheat. Since this book was first published in 1995 (as Against the Grain), Jax Peters Lowell has been helping celiacs follow a gluten-free diet with creativity, resourcefulness, and humor.

A MEMOIR IN THE MAKING...

John was the handsome, talented and more than slightly eccentric young Brit who opened Bergdorf Goodman’s first men’s department.  I was a shy copywriter thrilled to have landed a job under that fabled roof.  From our cinematic encounter in an advertising meeting to wild summers in the Hamptons and the advertising world of seventies New York, we had every reason to believe our luck would last forever. What could possibly go wrong?