PERFECTLY NORMAL MEALS for People with Sensitive Stomachs
By Mervyn Sennett
ISBN: 978-1-906154-05-9 December 2007
PUK imprint of Publishers UK Ltd Non-fiction
About the Author
Mervyn Sennett is sufficiently mature to have done National Service, and served in the Suez campaign. He is married to his wife Mary, and lives in North Hampshire. He has had a varied business career, and for the last 30 years has been occupied with a number of biotechnology companies, some of which he founded. Currently he acts as a business consultant, sits on the local parish council, and performs a duty as publicity officer for the major choral society in the area, with which he sings with more enthusiasm than talent. He also plays golf.
He admits that he has played far more sport, on a social level, than he has cooked. His presence in the kitchen has usually been a matter of necessity rather than choice, but in the process he has learned to enjoy cooking and experimentation, and this he shares with all his family. They are, without exception, very capable of turning out impressive dishes, he says, and do so regularly at family gatherings, such as Christmas.
He says that he wants this book to be used to make life simpler for those who have to cook routinely for people with sensitivities, but also to be a handbook for those who occasionally cook for guests who may have any one or several of the conditions described within – i.e. an intolerance of wheat, yeast, sugar or dairy products.
Many cookbooks are supposedly written by celebrities these days. Here is a book written by a non-celebrity author and created out of a real need when his wife became ill and developed food sensitivities. These are recipes that real people can use.
This book sets out to show how you can cope with people’s sensitivities to wheat, gluten, yeast, sugar, or dairy products, and yet deliver a normal meal. It requires a certain amount of invention and substitution, as the recipes in this book show. Hopefully, they will act as a guide from which readers can build their own variations.
© 2007 Mervyn Sennett
