Bette Hagman: from the Seattle Times 9/16

Hagman, Bette Bush – Click here to sign the obituary guest book     Bette Bush HAGMAN, a.k.a., The Gluten-Free Gourmet Age 85, passed away peacefully on August 17, 2007 at her home in Seattle with her daughter, Karol, by her side. Bette was diagnosed with celiac disease, an intolerance to wheat, barley and rye, [...]

GF Breadsticks: Baking for Bette

    I’ve been thinking about it. Maybe I should have called this post “Baking for Hagrid, umm… I mean, Hagman”. Not because Ms. Hagman resembled Hagrid at all, but because I made these yummy bread sticks large enough to feed a GIANT! They are humungous! Let me be honest. I don’t bake much from [...]

A Note From Bette Hagman’s Daughter

This note was received from Cynthia Kupper (GIG) from Bette Hagman‘s daughter. I wanted to pass on her note as well as remind all of you to take part in Seamaiden’s Blog Event in Bette’s honor. Here’s the note from Cynthia:     Bette Hagman’s daughter has asked me to make the following post:   [...]

A Call to Honor Bette Hagman: Blog Event

Seamaiden is brilliant. Not only as a GF baking-whiz, but also as the genius behind this call to honor Bette Hagman. As most you already know, word was spread through the Celiac listserv and Delphiforums that Bette was ill and then sadly, the following day, we received word that she had passed on. Most of [...]

Bette Hagman has passed away.

Just yesterday I received word that that Bette was ill. See here for that post. Sadly today the news was worse. Below is the most recent message from Cynthia Kupper from GIG: Dear Friends, It is with great sadness that I inform you that Bette Hagman passed away quietly this afternoon at home. I took [...]

Bette Hagman

I don’t know where I would be without this woman and her work. For those of you who don’t know her, she is THE pioneer of Gluten Free Baking. Years ago when I was first diagnosed, my love raced to the local bookstore to find anything he could. The *only* gluten free cookbook or BOOK [...]