Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Today I again visited Jeana and helped her cook a…
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Today I again visited Jeana and helped her cook a great dinner for her coop. Today I mainly worked on the tofu for the salad, although I had a large voice in meal design.
It is so nice using a big kitchen with lots of supplies and industrial-strength equipment to prepare a well-balanced meal, and then to eat it. Spaghetti with thick mockmeat sauce, an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink salad, cornbread, and chocolate pudding. Mmmmmm.
Another nice thing about living in a coop is that one gets to, while eating, socialize and/or read one of several newspapers on paper, the way God intended. When was the last time I read The Wall Street Journal or The New York Times on paper?
So I skimmed the science section of the NYT during dinner, and I stopped and burst out laughing at the article about Alan Alda starring in "QED," a play about Richard Feynman. And I kept laughing, for about five minutes, and thinking, "This is great." I'm not sure why that made me feel so blissful and terrific. Jeana thinks it was the chocolate pudding.
