Cookies with a Conscience
Date: May 12, 2008 | Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle
The story behind Liz Lovely has a familiar ring (if you live in the Bay Area), with a bit of a twist: two high school sweethearts, former dot-comers and city dwellers, hightail it to Vermont where they make their dreams of running an ethical business of delicious, decadent vegan baked goods come true. Liz Lovely’s handmade cookies come in traditional flavors like chocolate chip and peanut butter as well as a few for those who favor more exotic tastes, including ginger and molasses snapdragons and coffee, macadamia nut, and chocolate “mochadamia mountains.” The company’s mission has always included using organic, non-GMO and fair trade ingredients, and their line of tasty treats has recently expanded to chocolate covered pretzels, nuts, and dried fruit. Another of Liz Lovely’s latest endeavors is green packaging: gift samplers come in cute and endlessly reusable steel buckets, most of the chocolate-coated goodies are packaged in compostable containers made from corn, and the company uses 100% post-consumer recycled and shredded paper from local businesses as fill whenever possible.
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