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Check out our column at Iowa City Press-Citizen:

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For vegans with an active lifestyle, try these recipes for your next bike ride or hike....

In 1990, I was training hard for my first RAGBRAI bike ride, and my small hometown of Primghar, Iowa, was on the route....

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Make your own        vegan dishes starting with this basic seafood base....

Like many during the peak of the quarantine era, I began to binge-watch Netflix.

Bored with my normal cooking competition shows....

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Enjoy benefits of     plant-based diet with these recipes for taco salad, bean dip

I became very interested in heart health after losing my father to a sudden heart attack in 2008 at age 77.....

"People eat meat thinking they will become strong as an ox, forgetting that the ox eats grass."

- Pino Caruso

Help us create a

Vegan Eastern Iowa

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has" 

- Margaret Mead

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