Cohousing-L Mailing List: Cooking as a social ingredient

[Jean V Reese (jeanreese]

Westwood, in Asheville, NC, is represented on this list.  I know of
several people who lurk, and a few of us actually post once a year or so.
 :)

We have common meals twice a week, and every other Sunday morning.  So I
think we're on the low end, maybe medium, of what Rob was describing.  I
also think that our sense of community is a little low.  We have
community with a core group of participants, who coincidentally (yeah,
right) pretty much make up the meal cycle, and others who participate in
both meals and activities on a sporatic basis.  Our association meetings
are pretty well attended though, but team activity is down.

Jean
Westwood Cohousing
 
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> 
> Message: 5
> From: "Rob Sandelin" <floriferous [at] msn.com>
> To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 12:48:01 -0800
> Subject: [C-L]_Cooking as a social ingredient
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> 
> Andrew Burgess pointed out that cooking is a social lubricant. My
experience
> makes me tend to agree with that. I wonder how many built cohousing
groups
> have very few meals together and how they function as social
environments? I
> have some limited data, from my own work, which suggests that few meals
> tends to define communities  with little social interaction or support.
But
> my experience is based on examples from only 4 cohousing groups that 
> show this pattern.
> 
> Anybody have other experiences? For arbitrary measure, lets say 4 meals
a
> month is low. Are there any communities out there on the list which are
on
> the low side who feel their social intimacy level is high? Or how about
the
> opposite, groups with many meals, 12 or more a month, which have a 
> low social intimacy?
> 
> Or to put it another way, is there a relationship between eating 
> together and social cohesion as a community?
> 
> Rob Sandelin
> Who occasionally wonders how many actual built cohousing groups are
> represented on this list


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Jean Reese
43 Vermont Court E18
Asheville, NC 28806-3062

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