Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Re: Accomodating special needs at meals

[Casey Morrigan (cjmorr]

Thanks for this message. I do think that vegetarians should both join and 
advise cook teams.  I believe that is what I meant to be saying when I 
talked about cook's choice. In some places, this will be inevitable because 
all/most residents cook and frequent meals are scheduled.  At our site, it 
is all voluntary as to who cooks.  Reading Liz Stevenson's message about 
how food is about hospitality really helped "gel" (free of animal products 
of course!) my thoughts on that as well, because that is how I feel when I 
am cooking - that I am doing something hospitable for my neighbors. That is 
what motivates me to cook.

Last summer (or the summer before??? uh oh) a friend of one of our 
residents came and taught a Thai cooking class.  Then we had a Thai meal 
for the community.  Now there is a great model for introducing good food 
ideas. We had fun that night.

Casey Morrigan
Two Acre Wood
Sebastopol

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randa Johnson [mailto:Saranda [at] sarc.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 2:37 PM
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Subject: [C-L]_Re: Accomodating special needs at meals
>
>
>
> Another two cents-
> As a long time vegetarian, I am wary of leaving things up to cook's
> choice.  There is something profoundly disheartening about going to a
> meal put on by a friend, community member or family member and finding
> out that I can eat the bread and the spinach.
> Most people, especially those with little experience  with
> vegetarians/
> vegans/ food allergies, need a little support if they are going to be
> able to offer an appetizing meal that is outside the bounds
> of what they
> usually cook.   Encouraging cook teams to include a
> vegetarian/vegan or
> someone familiar with vegetarian/vegan recipes, and encouraging the
> people with special food requirements to come up with a list of easy
> recipes that everyone can draw from will get better results.
> Randa Johnson
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