Vegetarians avoid the local beef house and gravitate toward vegetarian restaurants to take advantage of the expanded selection of vegetarian dishes. Likewise, if you have peanut allergy, you can expand your menu selections by dining at restaurants that offer a wider variety of peanut-free dishes....

On its surface, my recommendation for peanut oil may sound paradoxically paranoid — most peanut oil is safe, but avoid all peanut oil. Let me clarify that recommendation: Highly purified peanut oil is safe. A heat-processed peanut oil is typically completely or nearly completely free of the...

Just looking at a bowl of chili, you may never guess that any cook worth his wire whisk would consider sticking peanuts in her chili. Flip through a few gourmet cookbooks, however, and you quickly discover that peanut or peanut butter is a pretty standard ingredient. Cooks may add it to thicken the chili,...

The rules I described for cookies and candies in the previous sections apply to ice cream, too: Stick with ice cream from major manufacturers and carefully read the labels. Although ice cream produced in North America is rarely manufactured on dedicated peanut-free lines, I believe that ice cream from...

If you’re looking for a tough challenge, mosey down the candy aisle at your local grocery store or pharmacy and try to find candies (especially chocolates) that don’t contain peanuts. Even candy bars that contain no discernable peanuts may have labels that warn people with peanut allergies to avoid...