Sharing is the Answer » Food http://sharingistheanswer.com Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:27:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Chicken and Cow Strike Again http://sharingistheanswer.com/2009/11/24/chicken-and-cow-strike-again/ http://sharingistheanswer.com/2009/11/24/chicken-and-cow-strike-again/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:24:05 +0000 janelle http://sharingistheanswer.com/?p=326 cow poolingIn the last few days, Shareable.net posted not one, but TWO great articles related to chicken and cow sharing, entitled How to Share a Cow and How to Share a Chicken (or Two). There’s just something about chickens and cows that mooooves people to come together, build community, start co-ops, raise animals together, and share food. This won’t be the first time I’ve pointed out that chickens are leading the sharing revolution. They are very organized about it, too, as you can see:

Actually, this is a sharing art installation by Emily Doskow and Luan Stauss, meant to draw the curiosity of and start conversations with the herds/flocks of passers by at our San Francisco Green Festival booth last weekend. Oddly, during the course of the weekend, not one, but TWO of the cows disappeared. Now who in their right conscience would steal from a booth about sharing? (The chickens have been brooding about it ever since.) Whoever you are cow-nappers, just know you got a special cow on your hands and she fully expects to be shared.

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This is Frugal Foodies, a Bay Area group that brings people together to cook and eat in community. Founded by J Moses Ceasar in 2005, Frugal Foodies has thrived since then in Berkeley and San Jose. Menus vary (according to the site’s blog, a recent evening was an experiment in veganism) but are always vegetarian and mostly organic.

My friend Margaret went a couple weeks ago and came back glowing with great things to say about how it works and how much fun she had. I hope to try it soon and report back on another fun way to share food.

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