If you haven’t noticed, the Girl Scouts have stepped up their game. Whereas when I was a kid, you needed to find a young girl with a green sash (usually at your front door) to get your annual fix of the signature cookies, and our only advertising help was word of mouth and a folded piece of printed cardboard, now you can hardly drive across town without seeing the full-size billboards. And of course Girl Scout Cookies now have their own website, facebook page, and yes, an app.
The thing is, however you get them, wherever you get them, however great may be the things you support...
OK, I confess. I am an avowed gluten-free experimenter, I play fast and loose in the overlapping fields of dairy- and nut-freedom, and I can even pinch hit for ingredients like sugar, corn, and soy. But. I have long kind of side-stepped the rather pesky issue of eggs.
I admit that I don’t have any (as yet identified) egg avoiders in my family, and as the owner of a gluten-free bakery, I felt that I had to draw the line somewhere. We couldn’t do everything, our focus was gluten-free. When you take away gluten, you are already working...
