Here you will find an archived weblog of my food, travel, and creative pursuits which I kept from 2010-2016. Please note both that the travel information contained here may outdated and that these logs were created on a prior version of this website and may not yet be optimized for the current version. If you’re looking for specific content, use the search field below! <3
Welcome!
Let me reintroduce myself, I'm Adina Marguerite and I'm a creative who lives to wander.
When I discovered my gluten intolerance, I launched Gluten Free Travelette as a way to document and encourage others that living a life of travel with a sensitive body was still possible. Then, I worked, created, and traveled for almost four full years.
Read MoreSo here's the deal, I'm fortunate enough to not depend on this site for income. I have a full time job which pays the bills including those to keep this site going and improving. That being said I have bigger dreams. Much bigger dreams.
Read MoreOn September 1st, I answered a very important question for myself: What’s next?
My answer came in a three-part plan and what you are seeing today on this website is Step 1: Re-Imagine Gluten Free Travelette.
When I started this blog, I had no goal other than to share the gluten free friendly restaurants I was finding in all my travels. There was no real plan for where I might take it in the future. That was until November 2012.
Let me break down those past eleven months for you...
Read MoreJust a little reminder before we get in to my last Alt Summit post!
Thank you so much to those of you that have provided me with feedback through the reader survey! If you haven't taken the reader survey yet, I'd really appreciate it if you did!
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Yes, it's true. Fantastic people do attend Alt Summit and sadly, I only met a tiny snippet of them. Going in, like I mentioned in my experience post, I was concerned I wouldn't connect with anyone as I'm not really a designer. As a whole, I found the Alt community to be extremely welcoming and accepting. I was able to connect with pretty much everyone I talked to either about being gluten free or having a serious love of travel. So if you work in a particular little niche of the blogging world like me, don't let that stop you from going to Alt.
So let me tell you about some of these fantastic people...
Last week I shared my overall experience at BlogHer Food 2012 and this week I'd like to share a couple of the take aways that stood out to me during the various sessions I attended. Overall, I came away feeling energized - creatively, intellectually, and entrepreneur-ially. So here's a of my big take aways from BlogHer Food 2012;
* Think about why you do what you do.
* Keep some personal projects, ones that aren't going to be posted on your blog.
* Surround yourself with colossal dreams.
* Back up your blog!
* If you don't already have photoshop or another paid photo editing software, go, download GIMP. Also, read the live blog of this amazing Post-Processing session - I feel like my editing skills just took a giant leap forward!
This past weekend I had the great opportunity to attend my first blogging conference: BlogHer Food 2012. It was a very interesting and almost over stimulating experience - so much information and so many amazing people to meet. I'll admit that I got a bit star struck seeing Tory Avey, Molly Wizenburg, Terry Walters, and Elise Bauer. And a bit teary eyed listening to Diane Cu, Todd Porter, and Kim Sunee.
Under normal circumstances, I could never afford to attend a conference like this - so when I found out that BlogHer Food was headed to Seattle I applied for a "BlogHership". Sort of a take off of an internship, a BlogHership allows you to attend the conference without the fee in exchange for volunteering your time to help out with conference operations. I was very fortunate to be accepted as a "mic wrangler" - which meant I was assigned to run the microphone to participants during several sessions.
Growing my own food is, at least to me, a natural extenstion of my feelings about making things from scratch. In addition, its a great way to ensure my diet is filled with healthy fresh produce that's all naturally friendly towards all of my food intolerances.
If you're new around here, we recently got the ok from our awesome landlords to transform half of our front yard into an edible garden. This is HUGE for us as renters and something we've always wanted to do. So I've started a brand new (as of this April) post series to chronicle our adventures in growing our edible garden.
One of the reasons I started Gluten Free Travelette in early 2010 was because my new day job promised a significant amount of travel and I wanted to share all of my great gluten free finds with other travelers searching for a safe meal. Over time I've realized that I have a whole lot more than just restaurant finds to share - and after all, this site is called Gluten Free Travelette for a reason. I've stayed in a number of wonderful hotels and done some pretty exciting things during both my work and non-work travels.
Let's just start here; I love real food and cooking from scratch.
If I can reasonably make it at home, then that's how I want to do it. Since I've got a variety of food intolerances, this lifestyle suits me quite well.
I think my enjoyment of food and cooking comes from my mom and her mother. Growing up, I remember many delicious dishes made from scratch and grew up thinking that's just food was always prepared. It didn't occur to me until much later that many of these things could be purchased pre-made or pre-mixed. Many of my favorite foods and ingredients tie back to things I remember from childhood; meyer lemons, rhubarb, picadillo, etc.
