San Francisco Chronicle / December 2005

Green Gifts
Sweets by Allison's Gourmet
Chocoholics will fall victim to the delectable confections that Allison Rivers creates in her Nevada City kitchen. Stars Alicia Silverstone and Kevin Nealon are satisfied customers. Rivers said she started her vegan baking business because she had "a lifelong passion for sweets, coupled with a reverence for our planet and all its inhabitants." Her products, made with organic ingredients, range from cookies to brownies to truffles. The exclusively online retailer ships out caramels and toffee by the box, tins filled with maple cinnamon pecans, chocolate almonds and coconut haystacks, as well as other nuts, and offers cookie- and brownie-of-the-month clubs. Rivers has gift baskets available as well.