Great news! The All New 2nd Edition of The Essential Gluten Free Grocery Guide is just back from the printer and is now available for purchase from Triumph Dining. The new guide features over 30,000 gluten free food products in a 240-page, full-color guide. We invested countless of hours in research - contacting thousands of companies, editing, and fact checking - to make this the most thorough and accurate gluten free grocery guide on the market.  For more information, please visit www.triumphdining.com or www.triumphdining.com/glutenfreefood.aspx.

We’ve had over 270 FREE American Dining Cards ordered through our online store so far, and counting. The interesting thing is that the first batch of mail orders arrived on Friday, and it was a big one (we haven’t had a chance to count them yet). If I would have guessed before we started this campaign, I would have expected most of the card orders to come online (it’s actually a bit cheaper and much easier than filling out a SASE — at least for me). But, it looks like many folks are opting for the snail mail route. Hopefully, I’ll be able to get a count of mail orders later this week to add to the overall report. In the meantime, please keep spreading the word - we’ve got quite a bit of distance to go to get to 15,000.

We’re pleased to announce that the 3rd Edition of The Essential Gluten-Free Restaurant Guide is back from the printer and now available. The 3rd edition is 100 pages longer than the 2nd, and features an additional 800 restaurant listings.

We’re especially thrilled to report that gluten free restaurant dining is truly becoming mainstream. More and more restaurants are becoming aware of Celiac Disease and gluten intolerance and are welcoming gluten-free diners into their establishments with open arms. Over 900 hundred restaurants and bakeries across the country now incorporate gluten-free menus and offer gluten-free specialty items, like bread, beer and pasta. Let’s work together to ensure that this trend of increasing Celiac Disease awareness continues to grow and that even more dining establishments begin welcoming us with open arms in the future!

We’ve launched Triumph Gluten Free! to support people with Celiac Disease and others living on the gluten free diet. Within these pages, we’ll cover topics of interest to you, from community news to product reviews to restaurant advice, and everything in between.

Our hope is that this blog will be a source of valuable information - and fun - for everyone involved. We invite you to visit often and join in the conversation. We’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions in the form of blog comments. And, please let us know if you’d like to contribute in this space as an author. We’re currently a team of four building this blog, but why should we have all the fun?