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http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-vegan-thanksgiving-20131129,0,7317072.story#ixzz2m5H202hDThanksgiving is a most fitting holiday at Venice's Cafe Gratitude
At the vegan restaurant a few blocks from the beach, Thursday's question of the day was obvious: 'What are you grateful for?'
By Mary MacVean
November 28, 2013, 6:38 p.m.
On Thanksgiving, the folks at Cafe Gratitude feel that everybody else has finally caught on.
Plates are printed with the question that goes around many holiday tables: "What are you grateful for?"
And each day, there is a question of the day — a practice some find too precious for words and some take as a nudge to live mindfully. Thursday's question was the obvious: "What are you grateful for?"
"We're supposed to be grateful 365 days a year," said Ryland Engelhart, one of the owners of the chain of Cafe Gratitude restaurants and the company's chief inspiration officer. "Thanks and giving. Why are those two words together? This is our quintessential holiday. This is our day."
The Cafe Gratitude just a few blocks from the beach in Venice opened its doors Thursday for a free meal, available to anyone rich or poor who walked in — after waiting in a line that stretched down Rose Avenue. It's a vegan restaurant, and the executive chef, Dreux Ellis, prepared an animal-free twist on the classic meal, enough to feed 1,000 people. In the past, 400 to 600 people have shown up.