Living with Food Allergies

For TV celebrity chef and restaurant owner Amanda Freitag, life is like a box of mystery ingredients in a cooking competition... you have to be prepared for anything. 

This is especially true for Amanda, as she manages her food allergy. 

After years of symptoms like an itchy throat and stomach pain, she was diagnosed with an allergy to hazelnuts. 

With food allergies on the rise, Amanda is helping educate others by sharing her personal experience of managing her food allergy. 

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Living with Food Allergies
Featuring:
Amanda Freitag, Chef
clip image0042Amanda Freitag is a New York chef and frequent guest on Food Network television programming. She is also a judge on the TV cooking competition Chopped. Freitag was raised in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, and attended Cedar Grove High School, where a teacher suggested that Freitag might be interested in attending the Culinary Institute of America.