Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: data on the benefits of cooking together

[Seanain Snow (seanain]

Thanks, Sharon. I really enjoyed these snapshots of your grandmother.

Seanain

Sharon Villines wrote:
> And the presence of a matriarch. The one thing I wished for most in  
> the weeks after we moved in was my grandmother. She would have been in  
> the kitchen cooking and keeping an eye out on everything that happened  
> in the CH and elsewhere. And shape people up real fast.
>
> "No Chicken Cacciatore for anyone until the laundry room floor is  
> scrubbed waxed."
>
> "Now young man, you just go right back outside and take that mud and  
> dirt right off your shoes and don't slam the door doing it or my cake  
> will fall. (The  young man would be about 35)."
>
> "If you are going to deliver packages here missy, you can't bring in a  
> hand truck that scratches the floor. We paid good money for that floor  
> and it has to last 40 years. I put some pie out for you right on that  
> ledge -- save some for postman. He's late today. He's late most days.  
> I don't know what the world's coming to. If you don't like apple pie  
> just speak up and I'll look around and see what I can dig up. People  
> are so "piticular" these days."
>
> "Billy, it's your turn to take cookies out to the "chillen" and I want  
> to see all those cookies still on that plate when you get to the  
> playground. I can see through the window so don't think you can fool  
> me."
>
> At the end of any one of these orders, she would tip her head back and  
> smile because people always minded and the world was always in order.  
> And she was half joking.
>
> We had great meals that everyone helped with beginning at age 5  
> setting the table. Anyone within in shouting distance was welcome.  
> ("Except that Eddie person who doesn't take his hat off in the house.  
> Don't you even look his way." Sigh. No smile.)
>
> Sharon
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