I was diagnosed in 2013, when I was 18. The year of the baccalaureate and the carefree spirit; the year when you feel immortal. The year when you live every moment to the full, not the year when you’re told you’ll have to watch everything you eat for the rest of your life!
When I was 18, I wanted to travel the world, I wanted to discover new things, I wanted to live life to the full. And even though being gluten intolerant doesn’t mean being seriously ill (although for some people intolerance is harder than others), I didn’t want to have to put up with this new culinary life, quite the opposite.
Once my intolerance had been diagnosed, there was no more pain, no more discomfort, and I could finally regain my strength.
It was a real relief to know where my stomach pains and fatigue were coming from… yes, I won’t go into the details, you know them.
Despite everything, things didn’t resolve as quickly as I would have liked. But it’s true that paying attention at every meal gave my body back its strength and energy. I finally knew which foods were good for me!
What a joy!
Nevertheless, all the conviviality of the meals was, at times, skewed. Everything had to be checked, tested and questioned. The complexity of finding the right food for me took precedence over my enjoyment of restaurants or dinners with friends and family.
There were also those redundant questions: ‘Why don’t you eat like me? Above all, the preconceived ideas: ‘That’s not cool! You can’t eat anything…’. ‘but how do you feel when you eat gluten, you can’t even eat a little bit? come on, at least try it!
Then one day, nature took over and I decided to cook! But to cook the way I wanted to! The way I wanted to, with the ingredients that suited me and my culinary desires.
Combining gourmet pleasure with health became essential.
So I nicked recipes off the internet, rummaged around, looked, explored, took ingredients from some, flavours from others, mixed, tried, redid, added, removed… I loved doing this! As well as managing my own meals, I was finally able to share my dishes with my friends and family, showing them that eating gluten-free wasn’t tasteless or tasteless.During all this part of my culinary discovery, a gentle desire began to emerge… And in other countries, how do they do it?
Travelling is my second passion. When I was younger, I was lucky enough to spend several months at a boarding school in England. A few years later, I grabbed my sandals, my bag, my backpacker’s guide and my phone! Destination: BALI! The only problem was that I had to find a work placement! And then, with my phone as saviour, tapping frantically on my screen, on the plane and between two airports, I found an internship with Facebook in less than 48 hours. 6 months of happiness!
At the end of it all, I had the choice of either going home to spend the last 6 months of my schooling in France, or travelling.
I’ll let you guess which I chose.
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