Lawasan is Antique

About the Brand

In 1971, Arran Stephens and a business partner opened Canada’s first large organic supermarket, LifeStream. Founded on the ideal of serving delicious, wholesome foods grown and processed in harmony with nature, the store soon expanded into milling, baking, making muesli, granolas, alfalfa sprouts, nut butters, energy bars, and wholesale distribution. Within a few years, the LifeStream line had grown to include a wide range of products, including both natural and organic whole grain foods and soy-based vegetarian entrees. The company even published its own vegetarian cookbook, which sold over 125,000 copies. Annual sales at LifeStream reached $9 million, making the line one of Canada’s leading natural food brands at the time. LifeStream sales continued to grow to $12 million, but an awkward partnership led to the sale of the company in 1981. It eventually was acquired by Kraft/Phillip Morris. Then in 1985, Arran and his wife, Ratana, started a new ventu (more…)

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-Grade 2-This book by the author/illustrator team that created the thought-provoking and effective Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad? (Culture CO-OP, 1998) is not as successful. Ink-and-watercolor paintings and rhymed text attempt to introduce children to cultural commonalities and differences. The message “We all have a Heritage,/yes this is true./It doesn’t matter if your skin is black, white,/yellow, brown, red, purple or blue” is repeated throughout the book. Several of the rhymes are forced and awkward. The text does not identify any of the objects or ethnic groups portrayed in the illustrations. The colorful full-page paintings include such a hodgepodge of items that most children will be more confused than enlightened, even with adult explanation. While obviously well intentioned, this book offers too simplistic and didactic a treatment of a complex and important subject to be useful. For books that create awareness and appreci (more…)