If you're looking for holiday gift ideas for the gluten-free people in your life, consider Elana Amsterdam's The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook. Elana's recognized the need for food and recipes that are crafted with the gluten-free and food-allergic communities in mind.  Diagnosed with Celiac Disease (the autoimmune reaction to gluten) when she was pregnant with her first child (and later with Multiple Sclerosis as well), she's developed healthy, "real food" recipes that utilize naturally gluten-free ingredients and whole foods that everyone has in their kitchen cupboard.

All of the recipes in The Gluten-Free Almond Flour Cookbook are gluten-free, grain-free, and soy-free.  Many recipes are also vegetarian, vegan, and dairy-free.  By using whole foods and nut flours, she's replicated the foods she grew up eating: cookies, muffins, bread (yes, a bread made of nut flours), salads, cakes, soups, chicken and fish dishes, desserts galore, fruit and vegetable concoctions, and various beverages.

In using nuts and nut flours in the place of wheat or other grains, these recipes are low glycemic index, high-protein, nutrient-dense, and low carbohydrate.  This means you won't feel so guilty indulging in her sweet treats because they won't spike your blood sugar or result in a carb overload, as some other gluten-free recipes tend to elicit.  In other words, you won't get that sugar high and subsequent crash.  That's because, while other gluten-free recipes call for rice flour, tapioca starch, potato starch, or other grains that can wreak havoc on your blood sugar and waistline, Elana's call for none.

Elana's book can be purchased via her website, or on Amazon, Borders, or Barnes and Noble.