RE: Food Values | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Alexander Robin A (alexande.robiuwlax.edu) | |
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:24:19 -0800 (PST) |
If cooking and communal eating are to be a large part of the community, I would recommend two things very strongly: 1) make sure the communal dining room has excellent acoustics, and 2) make sure it is not so cramped that it makes it difficult for handicapped people to navigate. My wife and I lived in a cohousing that had communal meals 1 or 2 times a week. We could not participate, and even though I love cooking, I withdrew from the cooking rotation. I have a hearing loss that is mostly ok due to hearing aids, but they don't work well in a noisy environment and my wife used a walker and just couldn't get to the food or maneuver among the tables that were too close. The noise level made it impossible for me to hear conversations but even people with normal hearing found it annoying and stressful. It helps a lot to build with acoustics in mind. Trying to solve the problem after the fact is either very expensive or only partially effective. Robin Alexander ________________________________ From: Tree Bressen [mailto:tree [at] ic.org] Sent: Thu 3/9/2006 8:20 PM To: Cohousing-L Subject: RE: [C-L]_ Food Values Hi, Rob S. wrote: >It's a bit unusual to expect every person in a cohousing community to >participate in a community meals system, in fact, as far as I know, its >unheard of. Perhaps you should rethink the expectation. Doesn't Doyle St. in Emeryville, CA (where Katie M. & Chuck D. used to live) have a requirement that everyone cooks? My impression is that if a group wants to have that expectation they had better put it in place early in their development--by the time they have 3/4 of the future members coming to meetings it's too late to get everyone to agree to it. In my (non-cohousing) community (http://www.icetree.com/walnut) everyone is required to cook and it's *wonderful!* Our dinners, which happen 5 nights a week M-F, are one of the best things about living here. Because we cook in teams, new members who sometimes believe they can't cook get plenty of support. Even after 5+ years it continues to amaze me that i only have to cook once a week and then 4 nights a week i can show up at 6:15pm and there is food on the table. I also notice that when i have been feeling a bit frustrated toward one of my housemates, i feel grateful toward them for providing dinner and that feeling overflows into my general attitude toward the person, thus smoothing community relations. Cheers, --Tree ----------------------------------------------- Tree Bressen 1680 Walnut St. Eugene, OR 97403 (541) 484-1156 tree [at] ic.org http://www.treegroup.info _________________________________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/
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