· By Annika Sisac
Certified GFF Awards, 2025
It's our first Annual Certified GFF Award!
We are excited to award 2 GFFs with our Certified GFF Award for 2025. In an effort to create a more inclusive foodie environment for all, our team wanted to highlight a few of our besties who have been key players in the Gluten-Free Community at large. These awardees have shown up, day in and day out, spreading good GF vibes and connecting community members. Check them out š
Our 2025 Awardees
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Fave GF Goody: The Cinnamon Rolls
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Matt is a gluten free cook, content creator, and advocate based out of New York City. Matt has been living with Celiac Disease for 11 years, and started his work with GOW in 2020 to change the stigma around gluten free living and cooking. A self-taught cook, Matt focuses on making the home cook feel at ease in adapting every day and holiday meals alike into accessible and affordable dishes, while sharing the techniques and knowledge heās learned along the way. With the help of his friend and partner-in-crime Liz Purvis, Matt is also the host and creator of The Gluten Free Town Hall, a series of live discussions from voices of the community. He strives to lead the conversation in accessibility and equity in the gluten free space, both online and in-person. Matt is unapologetically Queer, Jewish, and Celiac.Ā
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Fave GF Goody: The Buttermilk Biscuits
Molly was diagnosed with celiac disease wayyyyyyy back in the day in 1992 at the age of 20 months old. At first, the hospital told her parents that she was 6 weeks away from dying of starvation and they couldnāt figure out why. Then one of her dads colleagues (not in the medical field) brought up knowing a kid with āsprueā and that they should ask the doctors about something called āglutenā, and the rest they say, is history.Ā
In 2007, Molly went to the first ever summer of Celiac Camp in Livermore, California. It was a magical place full of people who really just understood what she had gone through her entire life, and even though it was only 3 days long that first summer, she made lifelong friends. She kept going back, year after year, and eventually took over as director in 2018. She is now able to give that amazing feeling of acceptance and understanding of their disease to over 100 kids every summer, giving them a place where they can truly just be kids and have the time of their life, not worrying about food, cross contamination, or having to explain what they go through to anyone.Ā
Her gluten free mission is to hope that even if they feel different than their peers 51 weeks out of the year, they can come to camp every summer and truly feel normal for that 1 week each summer, and try all the amazing gluten free foods we get donated (like GoodLove!), and have a normal summer camp experience and be part of an amazing community.
How to connect with our Certified GFFs
ā Follow Matt on socials @glassofweinstein and on his website.
ā Follow Molly on socialsĀ @mollyduncanstone & @celiaccamp.Ā You can learn more about Camp Celiac and their amazing programs for kids from their website.
