Cohousing-L Mailing List: Food for Cohousing Common Meals

[Joani Blank (joani]

The Cohousing Association would love to publish an Online Common Meal 
Cookbook and make it available via our website.  It could have even 
more than one recipe per community, and also should include a list of 
cooking-for-a-crowd cookbooks of which there are many.  There are 
literally zillions of recipes on the web, that we can link to, but I 
think that we should only "admit" recipes that have been tried at 
least once in a cohousing community--or forming/developing  group 
that's had some shared meals.

Editing such a cookbook is not a small task, and  we would welcome  a 
volunteer to come forward to tackle it.  In the meantime, I'm  going 
to ask the powers that be if we can set up a cohousing.org email 
address to which recipes might be sent  (What do you say, powers that 
be? I know a couple of you read this listserve.) Then when an angel 
cookbook editor appears, we can forward the recipes to him or her. 
It'd be really cool if there would be a way for folks to add reviews, 
variations, comments to each recipe (sort of like book reviews on 
Amazon), don'tcha think?  And then perhaps each e-magazine could 
feature a link to a Common Meal Recipe Of the Month

Joani Blank
Swan's Market Cohousing
Oakland, CA