Iris Sherman of Kitchology Q & A

We will be introducing you to the speakers and attendees of the Food Allergy Bloggers Conference by sharing their responses to a few questions. We have asked them to choose to answer 3-5 of these questions:

1. Who do you look forward to seeing/meeting most at FABC and why?
2. Which of your blog posts are you most proud of and why?
3. Which panel topic do you look forward to hearing most and why?
4. What is the best thing about food allergies?
5. What motivated you to start blogging about food allergies?
6. What is the best thing about the online food allergy community?
7. What other blogger would you most like to meet and why?
8. What other blogger has inspired you?
9. What is one of your favorite posts written by another blogger and why?
10. If you didn’t have or deal with food allergies, what would be your 3 favorite foods to eat/try?

My name is Iris Sherman. I am a food allergy advocate.  I am a busy mom plagued with food allergies. I have other family members with complicated dietary needs, including a rare case of Eosinophilic esophagitis. My desire to find solutions to issues related to food and food allergies led me to join forces with Dr. Alain Briancon to establish Kitchology. Kitchology is an early stage startup headquartered outside Washington DC. Our functional web site https://www.kitchology.com  Kitchology is a mobile/web platform that connects all household food activities for better nutrition, saving money and time.  Our focus is families with special dietary needs. I come from a background of bioscience/immunology. I used my understanding of the mechanism of protein adsorption to shape Kitchology. We have developed a unique “recipe science” technology we believe will make the food planning processes fun and efficient for families dealing with allergies. Now, it has led me to you.

1. Who do you look forward to seeing/meeting most at FABC and why?  I am most excited to meet as many people as possible at this event to compare and contrast stories, share resources, recipes and the like.  Alain, Jessica (one of our bloggers) and I can’t wait to meet the leaders meeting in Vegas.

4. What is the best thing about food allergies? Dealing with food allergies is a nutritional complexity which brings discipline to the food process. It has taught me patience, fortitude and most importantly compassion to make a difference for others.  My passion to helping families with allergies have led me to also to run for and be elected to the Institute of Food and Technology (IFT) governing board in DC.  IFT is a food science community of scientists and policy makers working to shape regulations and providing knowledge to make a difference.

6. What is the best thing about the online food allergy community?  I believe/we believe the food blogger community has a unique role to play in educating the broad population and letting them enjoy food activities more.  We have a blog (http://blog.kitchology.com), but our primary focus is providing tools for families to make a difference and amplify the voice of bloggers such as you through our mobile app. We want to also allow the food allergy bloggers to become “mobile”, so to speak through our mobile platforms under development.  We would like to invite any food allergy bloggers during the conference to give us a brief amount of their time on video in a private session to capture their personal journey, experiences and reflections as well as get candid reaction to our Kitchology ideas.  Nothing fancy, just a video camera and a couple of mikes, and tokens of our appreciation.

You can reach us at  iris.sherman@kitchology.com or alain.briancon@kitchology.com to coordinate our schedules. In all cases, we will see you at the Saturday get together. You can find more about us at http://blog.kitchology.com/what-happens-in-vegas-humm-will-be-blogged-in-vegas/  Interested in Beta Testing Apps http://eepurl.com/DOY7z

Can’t wait  so see you all in Vegas!