Mom Says Eat Your Sea Veggies! Gardens of the Sea Offer a Bounty of Taste, Nutrition and Sustainability

Sea Vegetables offer a bounty of deliciousness and nutrition--and are a unique alternative to the standard veggie menu! Ravens' Restaurant in Mendocino County in Northern California invites you to try sea veggies in your own diet--or join them for dinner in their ocean side dining room.

Mendocino, CA (PRWEB) April 2, 2008 -- This spring at the Ravens' Restaurant in beautiful Mendocino County, CA, head chef Barry Horton is offering up a rare treat for the taste buds - and a menu that is sure to put a bounce in your step and get you ready for the summer months ahead!

The restaurant, which is housed within the Stanford Inn by the Sea, boasts its own California Certified Organic gardens, and most of the award-winning cuisine at the restaurant is sourced from this garden. However, the vegetables on this particular menu won't be coming from this garden, but rather from the sea. This vegetarian restaurant will introduce a Six Course Sea Vegetable dinner, featuring sea vegetables that have been harvested locally from Mendocino County waters.

Jeff and Joan Stanford, the owners of the Stanford Inn and the award-winning Ravens' Restaurant, are committed to encouraging both the guests at their inn and the patrons in their dining room to lead ecologically conscious and responsible lives. Most come away from their experience more enlightened about living an earth friendly lifestyle that is as pleasant as it is sustainable. And after they've sampled the Sea Vegetable menu, they'll come away healthier as well.

For those not in the know, sea vegetables are different forms of seaweed that are used like "vegetables" in culinary dishes. The unique menu that Ravens' is offering will feature such local bounty as sea palm, nori, dulse and wakame. According to Chef Horton, for optimal health, "We need to balance foods that grow above the ground with those that grow below the sea." Sea vegetables offer the broadest range of minerals of any food (land or sea), and contain virtually all of the minerals that are found in the body.

"Sea vegetables are rich in iron, calcium, iodine, Vitamins A, C, K and other nutrients, and they can substantially reduce the amount of toxins found in the body," states owner Jeff Stanford, who has been incorporating seaweed into his diet for years. Sea vegetables are loaded with alginic acid, which binds with toxic metals (such as strontium), permitting their elimination from the body.

In addition, sea vegetables contain good amounts of lignans, plant compounds with cancer-protective properties. In effect, populations subsisting on diets rich in sea vegetables have less chronic disease, lower incidence of cancers, and longer life spans. Western cultures are only recently beginning to enjoy the taste and nutritional value of sea vegetables, and Ravens' Restaurant is one step ahead of the game in creating a menu that features this ingredient exclusively.

About the Ravens Restaurant:

To learn more about this miracle menu, we're happy to provide you with further information about any of the above, and we would love to send you a copy of the full six course menu, along with photos of the individual dishes.

"Here's to a healthier 2008"

RAVENS' RESTAURANT AT STANFORD INN BY THE SEA

Coast Highway and Comptche Ukiah Road, Mendocino, CA 95460

800-331-8884

707-937-5615

Ravens' was just featured on abc7news in San Francisco at

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=view_from_the_bay/food_wine&id=5884159.

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