The Raven’s Restaurant is located on the grounds of the Stanford Inn in Mendocino, California – a hilly, rolling landscape dotted with tall, natural wood buildings set amongst pretty coastal gardens. On past visits to Mendocino, my husband and I had been given The Ravens’ dinner menu by various hotel proprietors, and we were not [...]

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Greetings Readers! On the vegan forums and blogs I visit, I see three things that concern me. 1) Parents who are scared about their kids going vegan. Understandably, they are concerned about proper nutrition. I applaud that and certainly share their worries of a child being malnourished by adopting an animal-product-free diet that consists mainly [...]

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Greetings Readers! My complaint with most of the store-bought vegan cookies I’ve tried is that they are chewy and many have a weird aftertaste from unusual sweeteners being used. For me, maple sugar and maple syrup are the way to go with all sweet vegan baking. I like my cookies crisp, crumbly, rich and not [...]

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