Travel should expand your world, not your worries.
Two travelers. One with celiac disease. One with a very long spreadsheet.
Our Story
She had always been the one to book the flight first and figure out the details later. He had celiac disease — and for him, travel had never felt that simple.
Every restaurant was a risk assessment. Every menu in a foreign language was a source of quiet dread. Every well-meaning waiter who nodded confidently and then brought out something unsafe was a reminder that the world wasn’t built with him in mind.
Those early trips together were an education. She learned to slow down, to research, to ask the right questions before sitting down. He learned that with the right preparation, it was possible to sit at a table in a foreign city and simply enjoy the meal — without the fear that had followed him for years.
That shift — from anxiety to ease, from restriction to possibility — changed the way both of them traveled. And it became the foundation for everything Parea + Co. is.
Meet Sarah and Jason
Sarah McCall
Sarah is the founder of Parea + Co. and the planner behind every trip — the one who researches, questions, and builds a safety net long before anyone lands. If Parea runs on preparation, she’s the source of it: the person who reads every menu twice and treats a dinner reservation like it matters, because for the travelers she plans for, it does.
That instinct isn’t new. Sarah spent fourteen years in real estate and has run her own company since 2021 — a career built on guiding people through life decisions. Parea is the same discipline aimed at a different question: not whether a place is the right home, but whether it’s the right table.
Jason Doerge
Jason is the co-founder of Parea + Co. — and the reason it exists. He’s the celiac traveler the whole company is built around, and much of what Parea knows about eating safely in an unfamiliar place, it learned from him: years of navigating celiac disease turned into an instinct for what to ask, what to check, and what a kitchen really needs to understand.
Before Parea, Jason spent nearly two decades in events and venues, most of it with Explore St. Louis at the America’s Center Convention Complex — scheduling, contracts, and the logistics behind some of the city’s largest conventions and events. It’s a career built on the same principle Parea runs on: handle the details early, so nothing goes wrong later. He points it now at a smaller, more personal kind of event — a good meal, in a new city, that everyone at the table gets to enjoy.
Why We’re Called Parea
It doesn’t translate cleanly into English. It’s often described as “a group of friends,” but that misses the point. Parea is a feeling. It’s the quiet rhythm of a table where conversation stretches longer than expected. Shared plates, a second bottle of wine, the sense that no one is in a hurry to leave. It’s belonging — not in a grand, abstract way, but in the small, lived moments that make a place feel human.
Travel, especially when you’re navigating it gluten-free, can feel like the opposite of that. Cautious, transactional, isolating — asking questions, double-checking ingredients, trying to stay safe without drawing attention to yourself. The experience becomes about managing risk instead of being present.
We believe it should feel different.
Parea + Co. was built for the celiac traveler who has talked themselves out of trips they wanted to take. For the one who has eaten plain rice in a beautiful city because nothing else felt safe. For the one who loves the world but has spent years wondering whether the world could love them back, at the dinner table. It can.
We build gluten-free travel resources and itineraries so you can step fully into the experience of a place — not just where to eat, but how to exist there. Where you can sit down at a table and exhale. Where the restaurant understands what matters before you have to explain it. Where the rhythm of the day unfolds naturally, without constant calculation running in the background.
The goal isn’t just to travel safely. It’s to travel well enough that, for a moment, it feels like parea. We’ll show you how.