Product Reviews

Waffle Cones from Edward and Sons
www.edwardandsons.com
Review by Erin Pavlina

I remember back in 1997 when I was discussing the idea of going vegan with Steve. He wanted to go vegan and raise our future children vegan, but I didn't. I remember saying, "But our child will never know the joys of an ice cream cone." He shrugged. "That's not important," he said. But it was important to me. I made a wish that someday my child and I would take a walk, hand in hand, with an ice cream cone in our hands. Well, as the years passed at least a half dozen companies came up with great vegan ice cream. And recently Edward and Sons came up with the other half of my wish ... the cone!

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When I opened the box, my daughter, Emily (age 2), pointed at the cone and said, "I want that." She didn't know what it was, but she's two, she wants everything. So I gave her a cone and she went off happily munching on it (unaware that it goes much better with ice cream!) and came back with just the nubbin at the end.

I bought some Strawberry Swirl Soy Dream (my favorite) and we brought it all to one of my family's dinners. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the ice cream in the waffle bowls and cones. And Emily got her first taste of an actual ice cream cone. If you are health conscious, put some fruit in the bowls and drizzle some syrup over them. Yum!

I have fond memories of taking walks with my dad and talking about life while we ate an ice cream cone. And now, thanks to Edward and Sons and all the vegan ice cream companies, I'll get the chance to do that with my own child. Isn't life wonderful?

Erin Pavlina is the author of Raising Vegan Children in a Non-Vegan World, and a new cookbook, Vegan Family Favorites. She lives in Las Vegas with her vegan husband and children, Emily and Kyle.

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