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Volume NN, Number 6 March 28, 2019 Caring for the People PSFC Member Simmers Up a Shortcut to Indian Who Care for Us: Home Cooking A New Online Service Provides Benefits to Domestic Workers By Frank Haberle ly, provide their services with professional- onday through Friday, many residents of ism and care. But they traditionally work for Mthe communities surrounding the Park low wages and very rarely receive any kind of Slope Food Coop leave their homes behind to benefits for their work. These roles are often travel to jobs and responsibilities in other loca- filled by recent immigrants, many with their tions. Evenings and weekends, they scramble to own families to support. Despite working care for their children, manage their households long hours for multiple employers, many of and carve out a few minutes of personal time. these domestic workers struggle to make Many struggle to keep up with cleaning, laundry ends meet, and an injury or illness can quick- ly lead to disaster. A new nonprofit service, Alia, seeks

to provide a fair and PHOTO COURTESY OF MASALA MAMA easy way for employ- Jalan hit the jackpot when Whole Foods decided to carry ers to provide ben- Masala Mama sauces. efits for domestic workers. Through By Heidi Brown Heights—and facing more this unique program, efore she was an Indi- challenges than she ever developed by the Ban-food entrepreneur could have imagined. National Domestic and dedicated PSFC mem- In 2004, Jalan moved to Workers Alliance ber, Nidhi Jalan lived in the New York to attend graduate (NDWA), employers vibrant Bengali city of Kolk- school at Hunter College. of domestic workers ata, India, and had a career as When a friend brought her to who want to help a ceramics sculptor. She was the PSFC on a visit to Brook- their employees also a passionate appreciator lyn, Jalan was immediate- can sign up at www. of food—and a largely self- ly reminded of the produce myalia.org to con- taught cook since the age of markets in Kolkata, with their tribute five dollars 13. After moving to New York arrays of produce. Although for each visit toward 15 years ago, Jalan found her- the PSFC is not really like the employee’s ben- self applying the creativity those open-air subzi, “I love efits package. Over she uses in her art to Masala the eccentricities and the time, this simple Mama, an Indian food busi- madness” of the Coop, Jalan payment from every ness she founded in Prospect CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 household that the

ILLUSTRATION BY DEBORAH TINT employee works Next General Meeting on April 30 and other household chores and responsibili- for ensures that they receive needed benefits The General Meeting of the Park Slope Food Coop is held ties. Those who can afford to do so frequently including paid leave, accident insurance, dis- on the last Tuesday of each month. The April General Meet- rely on domestic workers whom they pay by the ability insurance, critical health insurance and ing will be on Tuesday, April 30, at 7:00 p.m. at St. Francis hour to provide cleaning services in their homes. life insurance. Alia also provides a place where Xavier School, 763 President St., between Sixth and Domestic workers who provide housekeep- people looking for cleaning help can identify and Seventh Aves. ing services play a vital role in households connect with a qualified housekeeper. For more information about the GM and about Coop across our community and, overwhelming- CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 governance, please see the center of this issue.

Thu, Apr 4 • Food Class: IN THIS ISSUE Handmade Pasta & Sauce 7:30 p.m. Crossword Puzzle ...... 2 Fri, Apr 5 • Film Night: Staying Faithful to the Old Way of Making Cheese, Obituary . . .4 Coop In Our Water 7:00 p.m. Safe Food Committee Report ...... 5 International Trade Education Squad Report ...... 7 Sat, Apr 6 • Food Drive to Benefit CHiPS Soup Kitchen Event Governance Information, Mission Statement, Welcome . . . 9 & Sun, Apr 7 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Calendar of Events ...... 10 Highlights Tue, Apr 9 • Plow-to-Plate Film: Letters to the Editor ...... 12 Goddesses of Food 7:00 p.m. Community Calendar, Exciting Workslot Opportunities . . 14 Classifieds ...... 15 Look for additional information about these and other events in this issue. Candidates for Board of Directors ...... 16

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Caring Alia, a program designed to According to Berger, “Hand her other clients on CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 allow employers to buy into in Hand provides many tools board, and Schere a plan to provide paid sick and resources for employ- helped by speaking There are over 2.5 million time and other benefits to ers, including the Fair Care to at least one of domestic workers in the housecleaners. Pledge and our Employer them on the phone. country—caring for our chil- “We know that many checklist. And now, with “I think Olivia has dren and aging family mem- employers want to do the Alia, the NDWA is providing around nine clients bers, cleaning our homes right thing, but don’t know an actual benefit package participating now,” and providing support to how,” says Ilana Berger, a that our members can use Schere adds. our loved ones with dis- former Coop member who to buy into a plan that pro- “Olivia should get abilities. Domestic workers is the lead organizer for vides paid leave and other a day off, vacation make all other work—and the Domestic Employers benefits.” Berger points out or sick days when many of our lives—possible, Network (Hand in Hand). that Alia is most effective she needs them,” but are drastically under- Hand in Hand is a separate when multiple employers of Schere continues. paid and have no access nonprofit organization, a the same worker join so that “With this system to the traditional bene- national network of employ- collectively, they create a she can draw on the fits or protections, includ- ers of nannies, houseclean- substantial pool of support funds as needed. It ing paid leave, enjoyed by ers, home attendants and for the worker. gives me peace of other workers. The NDWA family caregivers, and a mind to know that is trying to change that with strong advocate of Alia. “[As] a longtime supporter I’m doing what I can to avoid exploiting of domestic workers’ rights, someone who is Cosso le so I didn’t hesitate to sign doing me a service. up. Immigrant workers ... It’s not much extra 1234 56789 10 11 12 13 have historically provided for money at all and instead of trying 14 15 16 themselves in similar ways through pooled funds, and to figure out your- 17 18 19 selves how to set up this seems like a modern a fair system, Alia 20 21 22 update of that idea.” allows the worker to 23 24 25 26 choose how to use her own cushion.” 27 28 29 30 31 32 One Coop Member’s 33 34 35 Experience with Alia Advocating Lee Schere is a Coop and Supporting 36 37 38 39 member since 1997 who Domestic 40 41 42 has been a cashier, Gazette Workers production team worker, Through Alia, 43 44 45 46 47 and a member of the PSFC and Beyond

48 49 compost team at Prospect Schere gladly ILLUSTRATION BY DEBORAH TINT Heights Community Farm. advocates for Alia. 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 Lee has found Alia to be a “Domestic work- tion with the NDWA, we are 58 59 60 61 tremendous asset for his ers have been excluded elevating a shared vision of housecleaner, Olivia, who from labor protections in what care and support in 62 63 64 has worked for him since this country and so have the home should look like 65 66 67 2012. “I originally connected no benefits, an extra five for workers and employers, with Olivia [her last name dollars per cleaning is very and of a society that takes cross own is withheld for security rea- reasonable and combined care of all of us,” Ilana says. 1. Movie in which Brad Pitt plays Achilles 1. Mouth, slangily sons] through Si Se Puede with contributions of others, “To get there, we support 5. New York Times pieces since 1970 2. Red, as a Spanish wine 10. Mario ____ (Nintendo racing series) 3. Vizquel with 11 Gold Gloves (We Can Do It!), a work- can make a big difference. It employers to improve their 14. Fontana di Trevi locale 4. Ending with brick or stock ers cooperative of clean- also shows a different level employment practices and 15. Hamilton, to Burr 5. Popsicle choice ers based in Sunset Park’s of care for your cleaner as to collaborate with workers 16. Falsetto-voiced Muppet 6. It may be drawn 17. A bit cracked 7. Cole Porter’s “Well, Did You ____?” Center for Family Life. An a professional. I have never to create cultural norms 18. “Same with me” 8. Title for Helen Mirren organization I’ve worked been quite comfortable hir- and policies that bring dig- 19. “Anything ____?” 9. Freudian mistake with over the years, Jews for ing someone to work for me nity and respect to domes- 20. “Sorry about that -- I need some 10. One of the Wayans brothers practice kicking a football”? 11. Hot Racial and Economic Justice, personally, but Alia helps tic workers and all our 23. In history 12. Hotel capacity: Abbr. has run a longtime domestic me feel like more of a fair communities.” n 24. Celebrated Bombay-born conductor 13. Bathwater tester worker solidarity campaign employer. I think many dif- 27. “Got any other Salamandridae family 21. Honey Bunches of ____ focused on fair employment ferent sectors of workers If you are an employer of a domes- members in your pet shop”? 22. Conversation fillers 33. Almost an eternity 25. Small-time practices, so I was very aware could benefit from this kind tic worker, or if you are a domestic 34. “Happy Days” diner 26. Greek for “vapor” of the need to provide good of portable benefits system.” worker, please visit the Alia website 35. ____-com 27. Crop-destroying beetle working conditions and fair for more information: https://www. 36. Prefix meaning “half” 28. Some camcorder recordings 37. Person in the headlines ... or a two- 29. Singer DiFranco wages for anyone who might “With this system [Olivia] myalia.org/hih/. word clue to this puzzle’s theme 30. Pan-frying instruction work in my home.” 39. Olivia ____ of “The Wonder Years” 31. Wand material in the Harry Potter books Recently, the staff at can draw on the funds as If you need more help signing 40. Uber app abbr. 32. Verizon FiOS, e.g., for short 41. QB’s try: Abbr. 33. Time and ____ NDWA contacted Schere to needed. It gives me peace up or more information, contact 42. U.S. military vets 37. Roofing material ask if he would participate of mind to know that I’m Hand in Hand directly at ilana@ 43. State motto for those who want to eat 38. Postal abbr. for a rural address as an early adopter of the domesticemployers.org. what they want, when they want? 39. 511, to Caesar doing what I can to avoid 48. Superman, notably 42. Make some changes to Alia program model. “I’m exploiting someone who is 49. PlayStation competitor 44. How one person might resemble another a longtime supporter of doing me a service.” To learn more about how to be a Fair 50. Like an eagle who lets a rainbow fish 45. To’s opposite domestic workers’ rights, so Care employer to a domestic worker slip from its talons? 46. Says “My bad!” 58. R.E.M.’s “The ____ Love” 47. Hardships I didn’t hesitate to sign up. in your home, check out our resourc- 60. String bean’s opposite 51. Fizzling sound Immigrant workers exclud- Berger of Hand in Hand es at www.domesticemployers.org. If 61. Some early computers 52. Wan ed from more traditional adds that there are many you want to be part of HIH’s orga- 62. Sheep’s coat 53. Thingamajig 63. ____-de-lis 54. ____ gear employee benefits have other ways for everyone who nizing work to win rights and dignity 64. Sound on Old MacDonald’s farm 55. Geishas’ sashes historically provided for is concerned about domestic for domestic workers, including fight- 65. Handmade products website 56. “Let me think ... yeah, that’s stupid” themselves in similar ways workers’ rights and working ing for the Federal Domestic Worker 66. Some subs 57. Judgmental sounds 67. General ____ chicken 58. Fall behind through pooled funds, and conditions to get involved Bill of Rights that Kamala Harris 59. “Let’s ____ and say we did” this seems like a modern locally though the work of and Pramila Jayapal will soon intro- update of that idea.” Olivia the New York City chapter of duce in Congress, email Tatiana@ Puzzleule author:author David aid Levinson-Wilk. einsonil. For or answers, answers see see page page 6. 14. advocated for herself to get Hand in Hand. “In collabora- domesticemployers.org.

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Indian Cooking touch with them. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Three years ago, the PSFC began carrying some earlier says affectionately. versions of her simmer sauc- While attending grad es. Initially, she dropped the school, Jalan, petite and jars off herself, but the store bespectacled, made extra prefers that food products money by cooking for peo- be distributed by one of the ple in their homes and giv- many distributors with whom ing cooking classes. But, the Coop works. This cuts despairing of the food on into her margins. “Everyone offer at Indian restaurants in is out to take a cut,” she says the U.S., she eagerly await- of food distributors and retail ed her lengthy visits back grocery stores, which can to India and the chance to take up to 40% of the retail once again eat in the homes price. The jars were on Coop of her friends, who are from shelves for only about six the northern Punjabi region, months; she had production the South Indian province of issues and decided to focus Andhra Pradesh and Parsi— just on her sauces. descendants of Persian immigrants who practice Jalan realized that people Zoroastrianism. Jalan gravi- tated to her friends’ kitchens who love Indian food might and watched the cooks care- want something even fully preparing their employ- simpler for home cooking: ers’ regional food. She plied A pre-made sauce to which the cooks with questions and primary ingredients such as absorbed information about protein and vegetables could India’s various regional cook- ing styles. be added. Jalan also met her hus- band, Baruch College mar- So, she and her husband keting professor Kapil Bawa, “paused and regrouped,” soon after moving to the U.S., she says. They redesigned and they quickly moved to the label. A friend drew the Prospect Heights, partly to image of the Kali-inspired be near the PSFC. Over the woman on the jar labels of

years, Jalan continued to go PHOTOS BY ROD MORRISON Masala Mama’s three differ- back to India for long stretch- The Coop stocks Masala Mama’s Vindaloo and Coconut Curry on the end-cap opposite the ent sauces (vindaloo, tikka es. Then “life happened,” as eggs. Unfortunately, Masala Mama will be temporarily removed to make way for Passover masala and coconut curry she put it, and she began products but return in May. Nidhi Jalan is pictured holding her sauces. sauces). The gold-accented working on a business idea labels were designed by a for New York eaters. years ago. To promote the protein and vegetables could That was just one of the British firm called Kingdom Her first business attempt spice kits, they began using be added. hurdles. Jalan also had to and Sparrow, which sur- was pre-measured Indian them in “masala tacos” that With no background in meet the many govern- prised Jalan by agreeing to spice kits, which she and her they prepared and sold at commercial cooking, and ment-mandated packaging work within her tiny budget. husband assembled, to help their stall at Smorgasburg. using PSFC ingredients, and health regulations. To It was at this time that she novices overcome what they The tacos became a phe- Jalan began creating sauces, master this, she completed a also moved production to often express as intimidation nomenon, with long lines of right in her kitchen, from rec- course at Cornell University’s Canada. around cooking Indian food hungry devotees inevitably ipes she developed over her Food Venture Center, which Then, last summer, Jalan at home. Following a recipe forming around their stand, years of experimentation and provides substantial dis- hit the food-producers jack- for an Indian dish can require she says. The PSFC carried study. Jalan was aware that counts to in-state students. pot: Whole Foods decided to assembling 20 or more differ- the spice kits for a time. Still, there was competition— “They tell you what you have carry her simmer sauces in its ent herbs and spices—and they were difficult for her to Maya Kaimal sauces are to do to package food safely,” stores and was selling them roasting and grinding cer- package, and they didn’t sell popular and for sale at the Jalan says. The leadership by August. In early March, tain ones. Then, each must well. PSFC—but she says she was there have become mentors, Jalan and her husband staffed be added at a specific point Jalan realized that peo- not satisfied with the quality. Jalan says, and she stays in CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 during cooking. ple who love Indian food It was difficult, however, to To help sell the spice might want something even find a copacker—a contrac- kits, Jalan applied to and simpler for home cooking: tor who prepares and pack- was accepted as a vendor A pre-made sauce to which ages food on a commercial at Smorgasburg about five primary ingredients such as scale—willing to prepare the sauces to her specifica- tions. “In India, the ingredi- ents must be bhunooed,” she Masala Mama has said emphatically in a recent phone interview. This means been temporarily caramelizing the onion, for example, and slowly and removed from Coop gently cooking whole spic- es. “Most copackers cook the food in a steam kettle.” shelves to make way She “hopped around” differ- ent facilities in the New York for Passover products. area, including Long Island and Connecticut. They even- The sauces will return tually settled on working with a copacker near Toronto Nidhi Jalan realized that people who love Indian food to the shelves in May. whom Jalan met through her might appreciate the ease of cooking with authentic, pre- brother-in-law. made Indian sauces. Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com 4 March 28, 2019 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY

and energy and precision and Staying Faithful to the Old Way of Making Cheese mindfulness and doing our By Rebecca Chao the description on the board than that at roughly 19,000 semaking and has been, over very best,” said Sister Bar- he Pinterest page of Our explains. “At the monastery pounds a year. the years, training a set of bara, “So this all takes focus TLady of the Angels Mon- we live a hidden life, at least younger nuns to make Gouda. and attention along with good astery in Crozet, Virginia, is for the most part. But espe- “At the monastery we live “It also enables us to help will. But we have a good sup- almost what you would expect cially during the months of those in need. So that makes ply of all of these!” from a convent in the digital November and December, a a hidden life ... for the most us very happy! And also, we All that hard work has paid age. It is filled with images of few thousand wheels of shiny part. But ... during the do it all together—so it builds off. Since 1990 when they first autumn trees, lilacs, clouds, red waxed cheese leave the months of November and community.” began, they have made over a nun with her eyes closed coolers of our cheese-making December, a few thousand The recipe may be Dutch, 800 batches of cheese and in prayer, serene landscapes, facility to reach so many fami- wheels of shiny red waxed but “the secret ingredients,” there has, miraculously, never crosses, wide-angle shots of lies all over the country.” cheese leave the coolers of says Sister Barbara, are “love been a bad batch. “Praise the red brick abbey and lines Since November of 1990, and prayer,” which they “put God!” says Sister Barbara. “A of scripture. But then there this sisterhood of first six our cheese-making facility into every cheese we make. bad batch would be one in is a peculiar board devoted and now 12 nuns has been to reach so many families all And it is a joy because we do which the cheese was not edi- entirely to red waxy objects making Gouda quietly inside over the country.” it for the Lord.” ble because of some mistake you’d more likely see dis- the walls of the abbey, later That said, cheesemaking is along the way. But we are very, played at boutique shops lin- expanding to a barn devot- “It is our community means no easy task. very careful not to make any of ing the cobblestone streets of ed entirely to cheesemak- of self-support,” said Sister “It takes concentration CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 Amsterdam: Gouda. Wheels ing. The sisters produced Barbara Smickel, 83, who was of it the size of saucers. 10,500 pounds of cheese in there from the very beginning It’s “more than cheese,” 1991 and now make far more of the abbey’s foray into chee- OBITUARY Gordon Suber By Thomas Rayfiel Gordon joined the Coop ordon Suber, a long- in 2003. As an early Sunday Gtime Coop member and morning squad leader, he squad leader, died February loved the social aspect of 26, 2019. He was 78. After the job, kibitzing with shift selling his business, Gordon members and shoppers, tell- had a second career as a Big ing jokes and sharing stories. Apple Greeter, volunteering to John Webber, who succeeded ecokvetch help tourists from all over the him, writes: “You knew Gor- i]ZZck^g dcbZci Va world better appreciate and don really liked the Coop and understand New York. Diag- his squad leader job. He told X dbb ^ i i ZZWa d \ nosed with Parkinson’s dis- me ‘you treat everyone’s issue ease in 2005, Gordon found as important.’ Gordon had a special niche escorting vis- fresh jokes every shift. He said  itors with handicaps. With his ‘you think it’s easy to be taste- Gordon Suber I^ed[i]Z own walker, he was better able ful and funny all the time?’ to understand the challenges When he went on disability son, two daughters, and eight facing those who, despite the he asked, ‘would you like to grandchildren. One grand- difficulties of their condition, be co-squad leader? You get son, Alex, is a member of the BDCI= still wished to travel. His part- everyone’s coffee, you know Coop, as well. ner, Gwyneth, recalls how he their names, and nobody’s At the end of each shift, loved the challenge of help- thrown anything at you yet.’ I Gordon would get on the PA ing people in wheelchairs and loved that guy.” system, thank everyone for NYC schoolchildren have even the blind navigate and Gordon is survived by his their work, and play Donna Tip Title enjoy the city. partner, Gwyneth DeGraf, one Summer’s “Last Dance.” n been lobbying the New York CityLorem Councilipsum todolor bansit theamet, use consectetur adipiscing elit. 3 GREAT reasons Pellentesqueof toxic pesticidesut orci quis and to register for sapienherbicidesiaculis likerutrum. Roundup member services! Suspen(glyphosate) in New York LoremCityipsum parksdolor andsit amet, Receive TEXT or EMAIL alerts for consecteturplaygrounds—supportadipiscing elit. 1 Intelligent Shift Notifications: upcoming shifts. 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SAFE FOOD COMMITTEE REPORT

Plow-to-Plate Movie Series Presents: prove. Argentinian Paz Levin- profiles several of these, such son, born and bred in a cul- as pop-up restaurant Mazi The Goddesses of Food ture where chivalry dictates Mas in London, which hires that men pick up the tabs immigrant women as chefs, By Adam Rabiner, of Food serves as a wide-open restaurants. Men simply and pick out the wine, faced or a coed cooking school in Safe Food Committee exploration of the intersec- have an easier time doing longer odds than most on her La Paz, Bolivia, with a focus hose who read last tion of food, culture, gender all the things necessary road to becoming a renowned on gender, race and equality. Tmonth’s Linewaiters’ and economics. to get to the top—bring- sommelier. A Congolese chef The Goddesses of Food makes Gazette review of the Plow- You know that Frédiani ing people in, networking working in Europe notes that clear that there is no simple to-Plate Film Series’ March has broadened the frame among fellow chefs, associ- in Africa chefs receive little or single explanation to the screening of Julia! America’s of reference in an early ating with and visiting each respect and are viewed as question Vérane Frédiani set Favorite Chef know that Julia scene featuring street-food other’s restaurants, getting no better than poorly paid out to explore. But because Child is ranked number one vendors, establishing that press, receiving invitations cooks. A Chinese woman of that, she was able to make on Thrillist.com’s article, talented women, like the to conferences and winning similarly states that she had a remarkably broad and “The 25 Most Influential TV Empanada Lady working awards—a vicious circle. to overcome the view that her multi-faceted film. n Chefs of All Time, Ranked.” out of a food truck, can be The Goddesses of Food profession was blue collar, What they don’t know is that found in the humblest of explores many factors hold- like being a driver or a ser- See upcoming events, past reviews Julia Child is one of only settings, and questioning ing women back, from the vant. An Indian architecture and a comprehensive list of films nine women and 17 men the industry’s fixation on lack of institutions, ladders, student went against her par- shown at www.plowtoplatefilms.com listed (that’s 26 individu- Michelin-starred restaurants technical support and capital ents’ wishes and received no which can now also be reached via a als because the #20 spot is or “up and coming talent.” that help men, to cultural and encouragement or support link on the Park Slope Food Coop’s shared by husband-wife duo Her point is that excellent environmental conditions when she switched careers to home page at www.foodcoop.com. Pat and Geena Neely). Vérane women cooks have always that work against the aspi- become a baker. Frédiani’s 2016 documentary, been here. Why isn’t this rations of would-be women Women are taking things The Goddesses of Food will be The Goddesses of Food, attempts acknowledged more often? chefs. The film suggests into their own hands and presented on Tuesday, April 9, 7 to answer the question: how Frédiani also interviews these hurdles cause women beginning to establish the p.m. at the Park Slope Food Coop, come so few women chefs women who have achieved to work harder than men institutions that will change 782 Union St., 2nd floor. Free and earn international fame or fame and influence, like and persist longer, because these societal and familial open to the public. Refreshments appear on covers of Food and Alice Waters. Waters, largely they have something more to norms. The Goddesses of Food will be served. Wine magazine or Time’s “The credited with the Farm-to- February 14, 2019 Gods of Food?” Table movement in the Unit- Frédiani senses an injus- ed States, reveals that she Coop Job Openings: tice. She knows that while did not feel discrimination women chefs may not fre- when she was opening Chez Part-Time Receiving Coordinators quently grace the covers or Panisse in Berkeley in the pages of magazines, they are early 1970s. She didn’t think Sunday/Monday or Saturday/Sunday everywhere. And in her native much about this issue until France, many of the small bis- she was questioned about Description: All Receiving Coordinators ensure the smooth functioning of the Coop. tros dating back to the early it but believes that men and • Facilitate and supervise the continual stocking of the store 20th century were owned and women bring different quali- • Train working members how to stock and complete projects run by women who got their ties to cooking and that the • Communicate with Squad Leaders and squads about priorities start as maids and cooks for best restaurants have a bal- • Sustain knowledge about products and inventory early industrialists. Some of anced kitchen. • Answer members’ questions these women even trained While a male organizer of • Respond to physical plant and refrigeration issues and influenced France’s most the Omnivore Food Festival Part-time Receiving Coordinators are generalists who work with staff and members to stock the Coop. famous male chefs. who claims not to be a chau- They support the Receiving and Food Processing squads. So are contemporary vinist insists there is no for- The ideal candidate will: female chefs being over- mula for selecting top chefs, • enjoy working with people and crowds looked because they have another observes that “famous • be an excellent team player with strong communication skills lost their influence or are no men more than unknown • have ability to teach, explain procedures, give feedback longer innovative? Could it women sell magazines.” • be able to evaluate Coop needs, prioritize tasks and delegate work be they’re victims of sexism— Often, commerce, advertis- • be comfortable with computers (Macs preferred) not getting credit where cred- ing, marketing and publici- • experience working in a grocery store is a plus it is due? Or are we simply ty, not talent, are what drive Hours: 16 hours. 2 days per week. Sunday/Monday or Saturday/Sunday. not looking hard enough to things, which is a real Catch We are looking for candidates who strongly desire a part-time schedule for the foreseeable future. Ability find them? In search of an 22. How can women become to occasionally work another shift during the week is a plus. Applicants must be prepared to work during answer, she travels the globe “celebrity chefs” if they rarely holidays, the Coop’s busiest times. interviewing men and women appear in the glossies? And Wages: $28.12 per hour chefs and others in the food in an era when investors look Benefits: Paid safe and sick leave. Transit checks. industry. The answers are not to celebrities to reduce risk, Requirements: cut and dry. Rather, Goddesses it’s harder for women to open Candidates must be current members of the Park Slope Food Coop for at least six months immediately prior to application. Applicants must be able to: • lift up to 50 pounds • reach, crouch, bend, stand, climb stairs and work for hours in walk-in coolers and freezers • work with and around common allergens including nuts and dust • work in noisy, hectic surroundings How to Apply: We strongly encourage candidates to work at least one Sunday afternoon Receiving shift. When at Coop, please introduce yourself as an applicant to one of the Receiving Coordinators. Please indicate whether you are available to work the Sunday/Monday position or the Saturday/Sunday position or both. Please attach resume and cover letter as single document and submit to: https://bit.ly/2Trtf2v Applicants will receive acknowledgment of application via email. Do not call the Membership Office to check on the status of application. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until position is filled. If you applied to a previous Coop job offering, please re-submit your materials. We are seeking an applicant pool that reflects the diversity of the Coop’s membership.

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Indian Cooking on a fourth sauce, a korma, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 which tends to be mild. Other additions are on the a table at the food giant’s store horizon: on a recent visit to in Austin, Texas, for a week, pro- her apartment, where her moting Masala Mama sauces kitchen bursts with jars, with free samples they cooked bags and other contain- March 14, 2019 –April 10, 2019 on site, offering everything from ers of spices and other ele- tikka masala pizza to vindaloo ments of flavor, she offered tacos to ramen in coconut a visitor a spicy, slightly Aries: Get your house in order literally and metaphorically Libra: The full moon in your sign on March 21 may pull you in curry broth. Jalan before Aries season starts March 21. You will want to enter the two different directions. Practice situationally compromising said she couldn’t spotlight like a lean, (gone) green fighting machine. without compromising yourself. believe how pop- ular her offerings Taurus: With Uranus moving full speed ahead in your sign, it’s Scorpio: Change-maker Uranus is fully engaged in your house were and how time to pick up your pace, Taurus. Run faster, dig deeper. of love, so try on a new m.o. in matters of the heart, Scorpio. enthusiastic peo- ple were about Sagittarius: If you’ve been keeping a low profile, Aries Gemini: On March 21, the full moon falls in your sociable fifth them. She’s also season (starting March 21) is the time to remind people who you house. Throw a party for spring, Gemini! excited that the are. Network like never before. PSFC has recent- Cancer: If you’re feeling stuck in a rut, free your mind and Capricorn: With Uranus the planet of change transiting your ly reintroduced think as if you are on vacay! Start with a fruit basket. house of creativity, you get a chance to express the artist in you, two of her sauc- es: Vindaloo and without inhibition. If not now, when? Leo: With spring and Aries season kicking in, wear less, laugh coconut curry more, and eat more spice! Aquarius: The full moon on March 21 in your house of available on the teaching and learning inspires you to geek out on a whole new end cap, across Virgo: Your ruler Mercury is retrograde till March 29. When it level. Change the world with your scientific brain. from the eggs. comes to communication, less is more, and when it comes to The sauces will polishing a brilliant project, more is more! Pisces: March 21 the Sun shifts into your house of money. Start be temporari- saving for something really meaningful for your next birthday. ly unavailable during the Pass- over season, but March 25, 2019 they will be back on the end cap Coop Job Opening: opposite the egg case in early May. Membership Coordinator In develop-

Membership Coordinator work is divided among three areas: supervision of the Membership Office Committee; provid- ing her recipes, PHOTO BY ROD MORRISON ing operational, managerial and policy support to the shopping floor during shopping hours; oversight/coordination/ Jalan uses a Nidhi Jalan is from the vibrant Bengali City ongoing innovation of the Coop’s administrative functions. As with all paid staff positions, the main goal of the grid which lists of Kolkata. A self-taught cook, her influ- Membership Coordinator team is to facilitate the member labor system and to ensure the smooth functioning of the each spice she ences include regional cuisines like north- Coop for shoppers and working members. This position will also involve up to 10 hours a week of graphic design work. is using and its ern Punjabi and the southern province of All candidates must possess these qualities: proportion. As Andhra Pradesh. • Excellent administrator and problem solver with strong organizational skills and the capacity to do she adjusts for accurate, detailed record keeping different flavors—spiciness, tangy tamarind curry she • Reliable, and self-motivated and able to identify and evaluate the Coop’s needs and prioritize tasks sourness, etc.—she changes was developing. The original • Very comfortable with computers (Macs and Microsoft Office a plus) and computer and online systems in general each of the components on recipe came from friends in • A team player with outstanding communication and listening skills who enjoys lots of interactions the grid. She also notes that Andhra Pradesh, who wrote with people her background in ceramics the steps down in longhand • Able to oversee the work of others, give constructive feedback, delegate, train and explain procedures comes in handy: Glaze-mak- for her. She’s also working and policies • Graphic Design skills: very familiar the Adobe Creative Suite; experience in print design and layout; ing also requires adjusting on a chutney that, unlike the art direction experience is desirable If you have a graphic design portfolio, please include it with different elements in relation almost cloyingly sweet ones your application to the other to achieve a spe- Americans associate with • Prepared to commit to working on many of the major Federal holidays, and during the winter holiday cific outcome. Indian food, is savory, spicy, season which stretches pre-Thanksgiving through the end of January, which sees the Coop’s highest weekly sales volume Today, Jalan is working tangy and smooth. n

Hours: Approx. 40 hours in 5 days/week Thursday through Monday (Tue/Wed off). Weekday schedules will be afternoon/evening hours (some shifts until 11:00 p.m.). Saturday and Sunday hours will vary, though shifts are between 6 and 8 hours in length. Crossword Answers Wages: $28.12/hour TROY OPEDS KART Benefits: A generous package including but not limited to: 3 weeks vacation, 11 Health/Personal days, health insurance and a pension plan. ROMA R I VAL E LMO AJAR ASAMI ELSE Working Environment: Candidates must be comfortable in noisy, hectic surroundings in close quarters with others and able to navigate our three-floor work environment, including going up and down stairs, some lifting, PARDONTHEPUNT kneeling and ladder use. AGO MEHTA Pre-Requisites: Candidates must be current Park Slope Food Coop members for at least 12 months immediately prior to application. WHATELSE I SNEWT Candidates must have worked at least two shifts in the Membership Office prior to being interviewed. If you have AEONS ALS ROM not met that requirement and wish to schedule shifts in the Office please submit your application, and then imme- diately contact the Coop at [email protected] to schedule shifts. Please put “Schedule Shifts” HEM I TRUMP DABO in the subject field. AVE ATT EXG I S How to Apply: Attach resume and graphic design portfolio, and paste cover letter at the link below: L I VEFREEORD I ET http://bit.ly/PSFC-MC2019 FL I ER WI I Applicants will receive an acknowledgment of receipt of application via email. Please do not call the Membership Office to check on the status of application. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis DROPP I NGTROUT until position is filled, at which point all applicants will be notified. If you applied to a previous Coop job offering, please re-submit your materials. ONE I FATSO I BMS

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE EDUCATION SQUAD Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies and the Destruction of Mexico The Coop is seeking five members to serve on the Pension Advisory Committee (“PAC”). The PAC will represent the interests of the Membership and Staff by By Sarah Westlake with selling no actual food. You scenes against any type of monitoring the overall performance of the fund and maintaining regular communica- Helen Beichel, International Trade might wonder why people regulations that would stop Education Squad with such a strong food her- them from making a profit. tion with the Pension Plan Trustees. arlier this year at the itage would eat and drink The whole campaign focused This Committee, which will also include two members of the paid Staff, will EBrooklyn Society for this stuff. Well, it’s deep. on and blamed individuals provide ongoing education and performance reports to the Membership at General Ethical Culture, 20 people Packaged food can seem like for obesity in a world that Meetings and through articles in the Linewaiters' Gazette. Portfolio decisions, braved the cold to attend a feminist liberation, and junk has been transformed. selection of Trustees, and the hiring of the Plan Investment Manager or Plan Actuaries talk organized by the PSFC food confers status. People are not under the PAC’s purview. International Trade Edu- don’t trust that the gov- Some Good News cation Squad (ITES). The ernment is keeping water There are peasant move- Term lengths: Members will be elected at a monthly General Meeting. The three author, Alyshia Gálvez, a cul- sources safe, and when Coca ments gaining traction and members receiving the highest vote counts when will receive three-year terms. The tural and medical anthropol- Cola costs only pennies for a seeking to reassert the ben- members receiving the next two highest vote counts will receive two two-year terms. ogist and professor of Latin liter, they drink that instead. efits of heirloom corn and Subsequent terms will be three years. American and Latino Studies Shiny new supermarkets seeds. People are starting at Lehman College at CUNY, have a modern appeal, and to care about food sover- We urge you to apply if you have these qualifications: spoke about how changes in going to Walmart is a status eignty, and there’s a “Decol- Coop Experience policy following NAFTA have symbol. In one small town onize Your Diet” movement fundamentally altered one of alone (a market capital that encouraging people to • Minimum five years of Coop membership immediately prior to joining the committee; the most basic elements of dates back before the Span- eat food that’s pre-Span- • An excellent attendance record in your Coop work slot with minimal absences per year life in Mexico—sustenance. ish came), Alyshia counted ish, asserting the value in Professional Experience Mexicans are faced with four Walmarts, which is now all sectors of the econo- a food system that favors the largest food seller in my of locally produced and • Minimum three years relevant professional experience in at least one of the following: national food insecurity over Mexico, even though items pre-Columbian food. Ama- -Pension fund management, institutional investment advising, or portfolio agricultural independence, cost twice what they do in a ranth—a pre-Columbian management the industrialization of agri- Walmart in the U.S. Mexico seed—is gaining traction. - Chartered Financial Advisor (CFA) culture over sustainability, now imports 41% of its food (There’s a great podcast on - Certified Financial Planner (CFP) market participation over from elsewhere. How ironic NPR’s The Salt about the way - Volunteer at a non-profit/educational/religious institution or labor organization social welfare and an ideolo- given the amount of food the this ancient grain is being where you interface(d) with endowments and/or engage(d) in long-term financial gy of individual responsibili- Coop imports from Mexico. revived.) The new left-lean- planning on a large scale ty for health care over public ing President has opened - Journalists, educators or graphics specialists who focus on the financial sector health. Trade agreements NAFTA Not a Win For a fellowship to agriculture negotiated to improve lives Everyone specialists, farmers and sto- Core Qualities have resulted in unintended The rate of poverty has rytellers. He has appointed • Effective verbal and written communicator consequences for Mexicans’ risen since the creation of some good people to the everyday lives. NAFTA, and the median government ministries— • Ability to distill and disseminate complicated concepts to audiences of all levels Westlake’s book Eating income has fallen. Coun- scholars in economy, rural • Skilled in collaborative processes NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies tries in Latin America have Mexicans, women and indig- • Excellent time management and organization skills and the Destruction of Mexico seen double digit decreas- enous people. To apply, please complete this form http://bit.ly/CoopPAC and forward your (UC Press, 2018) highlights es in poverty, and Mexico The whole global econ- changing food policies, sys- has seen massive income omy has been organized professional resume, cover letter and one reference letter to: tems and practices in Mexico inequality grow. Computer around mega-corporations. [email protected] and Mexican communities chips, aeronautics, manufac- How do we make them sub- in the United States, includ- turing and processed foods ject to democratic purpos- We are seeking an applicant pool that reflects ing the ways trade and eco- do well even as the drug war es? When we are voting for the diversity of the Coop’s membership. nomic policy affect public and diabetes lead to many elected officials here in the health. Mexican cuisine has deaths each year. Many U.S. we have a power that emerged as a paradox of glo- non-communicable diseas- Mexican citizens don’t have, balization. Food enthusiasts es are framed as diet related and most of us are paying STATEMENT ON THE throughout the world cele- and part of an individual’s no attention because we’ve COOPERATIVE IDENTITY brate the humble taco at the failure to be healthy because been socialized to under- same time that actual Mexi- people are lazy, have a sweet stand that these are bor- DEFINITION cans eat fewer tortillas and tooth and need to be edu- ing things that don’t really A cooperative is an autonomous association of persons united more processed food. Mexi- cated about health and exer- affect us. ITES is seeking to voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural co is currently experiencing cise. There is a huge increase raise awareness of the ripple needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically an epidemic of diet-related in the number of children effect of our actions on the controlled enterprise. chronic illness including a getting Type 2 diabetes; the way these trade deals impact precipitous rise in obesity irony is that this is a disease poorer countries, from food VALUES Cooperatives are based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, and diabetes of poverty as well as afflu- sovereignty and safety to democracy, equality, equity and solidarity. In the tradition of their ence. The Health Ministry labor practices. founders, co-operative members believe in the ethical values of Would Your Granny developed and launched a We would like to thank honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others. Recognize It as Food? campaign against diabetes Alyshia Gálvez for coming Gálvez spoke about her in 2014 that received much to speak to us and for the PRINCIPLES travels all around Mexico. attention. Mexico actually incredibly insightful and The cooperative principles are guidelines by which cooperatives put She said that in many mar- passed a soda tax, but this knowledgeable discussion their values into practice. The International Cooperative Alliance kets in rural Mexico there is happened despite the active we had afterwards with those adopted the revised Statement on the Cooperative Identity in 1995. They are as follows: one meager vegetable stall opposition of the health who attended. 1. Voluntary and Open Membership but many DVD stands. In minister herself. Nestle, For more information see 2. Democratic Member Control many stores you can’t find Coke, Pepsi and Bimbo were our blog at coopites.word- 3. Member Economic Participation real food (what your grand- all involved in planning the press.com and our Facebook 4. Autonomy and Independence mother would recognize as campaign. With health-care page—search Coopites and 5. Education, Training and Information food anyway). Oxxo (kind progressives kicked out of check out Alyshia Gálvez, 6. Cooperation Among Cooperatives of like a gas station with no the room, the soda compa- Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Poli- 7. Concern for Community gas) is opening three stores nies watered down the cam- cies and the Destruction of Mexico Reference: ica.coop a day all over Mexico but paign, fighting behind the (UC Press, 2018). n

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The Linewaiters’ Gazette is published biweekly by the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc., 782 Union Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215, 718-622-0560. Opinions expressed here may be solely the views of the writer. The Gazette will not knowingly publish articles that are racist, sexist or otherwise discriminatory. The Gazette welcomes Coop-related articles and letters from members. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The Gazette will not knowingly publish letters, articles or reports that are hateful, racist, sexist, otherwise discriminatory, inflammatory or needless- ly provocative. The Gazette welcomes Coop-related articles, letters and committee reports from members that follow the published guidelines and policies. The following is a summary—please see the detailed guidelines for each type of submission on the Coop website: www.foodcoop.com. All submissions must include author’s name, phone number and e-mail address, conform to the following guidelines and to the Fairness, Anonym- ity and Respect policies. Editors will reject letters, articles and reports that do not follow the guidelines or policies. Submission deadlines appear each edition in the Coop Calendar section. Mare Berger has been playing the piano for 34 years, and has played at notable venues includ- For topics that generate a large number of submissions (letters or Mem- ing The Jazz Standard, Broadway, and the Renee Weiler Concert Hall. ber Articles) serially and continuously over an extended period of time, the Mare believes in the importance of collaboration as a way of fight- Gazette will not necessarily publish all submissions, but the editors will use their editorial discretion to select a small number of submissions (whether let- ing fascism and oppression, and facilitates regular workshops ters or Member Articles) from each side as representative of that viewpoint of encouraging people to imagine together: Collective Songwriting for the issue. The selected submissions will also adhere to the current guidelines Collective Liberation. Mare will be performing original songs for of civil discourse and should serve to advance the discussion in new ways. voices and string quartet about the moon, loss, and becoming You may submit via e-mail to [email protected]. whole. The moon is always full, even when we forget. All of the Letters: Maximum 500 words. songs have audience participation, so come sing along! Mare is an Voluntary Articles: Maximum 750 words. A Voluntary Article is held to a avid lover of the Park Slope Food Coop, teaches piano and song- higher standard than a letter and must meet at least the following criteria: writing, and also performs improv comedy. Joining Mare will be A Voluntary Article must analyze the topic it is discussing; it must present accurate, verifiable corroboration for factual assertions; it can criticize but Sonia Szajnberg, voice; Rebecca Sullivan, voice; Ilusha Tsinadze, not attack Coop practices and personnel; if critical it must present positive guitar/voice; Ludovica Burtone, violin; Sarah Alden, violin; Brian solutions; it cannot be solely or mainly opinion. It must strive to make a Thompson, viola; and Mariel Roberts, cello. positive contribution to the understanding of the reader on a topic. If a sub- mitted Voluntary Article is substantially opinion, it must be re-submitted, under 500 words, as a Letter to the Editor, possibly to a future issue. 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A warm welcome to these new Coop members who have joined us in the last two weeks. We’re glad you’ve decided to be a part of our community.

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ALL ABOUT THE COOP CALENDAR GENERAL MEETING New Member Orientations General Meeting Info Our Governing Structure Attending an Orientation is the first step toward TUE, APRIL 2 From our inception in 1973 to the present, the open Coop membership. Pre-registration is required for all of the three weekly New Member Orientations. AGENDA SUBMISSIONS: 7:30 p.m. monthly General Meetings have been at the center of To pre-register, visit foodcoop.com. Submissions will be considered for the April 30 the Coop’s decision-making process. Since the Coop Have questions about Orientation? Please General Meeting. incorporated in 1977, we have been legally required visit www.foodcoop.com and look at the “Join to have a Board of Directors. The Coop continued the the Coop” page for answers to frequently asked TUE, APRIL 30 questions. tradition of General Meetings by requiring the Board GENERAL MEETING: 7:00 p.m. to have open meetings and to receive the advice of the The Coop on the Internet members at General Meetings. The Board of Directors, www.foodcoop.com Gazette Deadlines which is required to act legally and responsibly, has The Coop on Cable TV LETTERS & VOLUNTARY ARTICLES: approved almost every General Meeting decision at Apr 11 issue: 12:00 p.m., Mon, Apr 1 the end of every General Meeting. Board members are Inside the Park Slope Food Coop Apr 25 issue: 12:00 p.m., Mon, Apr 15 The fourth FRIDAY of the month at 11 a.m. and elected at the Annual Meeting in June. Copies of the 5 p.m. Channels: 56 (Time-Warner), 69 Coop’s bylaws are available on foodcoop.com and at (CableVision), 84 (RCN), 44 (Verizon), and live CLASSIFIED ADS DEADLINE: every General Meeting. streaming on the Web: www.bricartsmedia.org/ Apr 11 issue: 7:00 p.m., Wed, Apr 3 community-media/bcat-tv-network. Apr 25 issue: 7:00 p.m., Wed, Apr 17 Next Meeting: Tuesday, April 30, 7:00 p.m. Attend a GM Park Slope Food Coop The General Meeting is held on the last Tuesday of each month. and Receive Work Credit Mission Statement Location Since the Coop’s inception in 1973, the General Meeting The Park Slope Food Coop is a mem- St. Francis Xavier School, 763 President Street, between has been our decision-making body. At the General ber-owned and operated food store—an Meeting (GM) members gather to make decisions and alternative to commercial profit-oriented Sixth and Seventh Aves. set Coop policy. The General-Meeting-for-workslot-credit business. As members, we contribute our program was created to increase participation in the labor: working together builds trust through How to Place an Item Coop’s decision-making process. cooperation and teamwork and enables us to Following is an outline of the program. keep prices as low as possible within the con- on the Agenda • Advance Sign-up required: text of our values and principles. Only mem- If you have something you’d like discussed at a General To be eligible for workslot credit, you must sign-up bers may shop, and we share responsibilities Meeting, please complete a submission form for the and benefits equally. We strive to be a respon- at foodcoop.com. A computer dedicated to sign-ups is Agenda Committee. Forms are available in the rack sible and ethical employer and neighbor. We located in the elevator lobby. You may sign up for the near the Coop Community Corner bulletin board and at meeting all month long, until 5 p.m. of the day of the are a buying agent for our members and not a selling agent for any industry. We are a part of General Meetings. Instructions and helpful information meeting. and support the cooperative movement. Some restrictions to this program do apply. Please on how to submit an item appear on the submission see below for details. We offer a diversity of products with an form. The Agenda Committee meets on the first Tuesday emphasis on organic, minimally processed of each month to plan the agenda for the GM held on the • Two GM attendance credits per year: and healthful foods. We seek to avoid prod- Each member may take advantage of the GM-for- last Tuesday of the month. If you have a question, please ucts that depend on the exploitation of others. call Ann Herpel at the Coop. workslot-credit program two times per calendar year. We support non-toxic, sustainable agriculture. • Squads eligible for credit: We respect the environment. We strive to Shopping, Receiving/Stocking, Food Processing, reduce the impact of our lifestyles on the Meeting Format Office, Maintenance, Inventory, Construction, and FTOP world we share with other species and future • Submit Open Forum items committees. (Some Committees are omitted because generations. We prefer to buy from local, Warm Up (7:00 p.m.) covering absent members is too difficult.) earth-friendly producers. We recycle. We try • Explore meeting literature Open Forum (7:15 p.m.) Open Forum is a time for • Attend the entire GM: to lead by example, educating ourselves and In order to earn workslot credit you must be present others about health and nutrition, coopera- members to bring brief items to the General Meeting. for the entire meeting. tion and the environment. If an item is more than brief, it can be submitted to the We are committed to diversity and equal- Agenda Committee as an item for a future GM. • Signing in at the Meeting: ity. We oppose discrimination in any form. • Financial Report • Coordinators’ After the meeting the Chair will provide the Workslot We strive to make the Coop welcoming and Reports (7:30 p.m.) Credit Attendance Sheet. accessible to all and to respect the opinions, Report • Committee Reports • Being Absent from the GM: needs and concerns of every member. We Agenda (8:00 p.m.) The agenda is posted on It is possible to cancel without penalty. We do ask that seek to maximize participation at every level, foodcoop.com and may also appear elsewhere in this issue. you remove your name if you know cannot attend. Please from policy making to running the store. Wrap Up (9:30-9:45) • Meeting evaluation • Board do not call the Membership Office with GM cancellations. We welcome all who respect these values. of Directors vote • Announcements, etc.

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Switzgable was introduced to the Coop by California Governor Jerry Brown. mar 31 Sweet Relief While still in her early 20s, Meg gathered a creative team that included Barry sun 12 pm Sonnenfeld, who went on to direct Get Shorty and Men In Black, Bob Chap- Home & Office Organizing pell, who shot many of Errol Morris’ films including Thin Blue Line and Fog of Organize, clear, transform your home, your life. Allow your space support you War, and Mona Davis, editor of Running From Crazy and Advise & Disent. to thrive! You deserve to be inspired, productive and at peace in your space. To book a Film Night, contact Gabriel Rhodes, [email protected]. You can be free of feelings of overwhelm and shame and have surroundings that support you to live as you wish and know best! In this interactive work- shop you’ll get perspective and practical strategies, learn how to open your spaces for new possibilities and see that you are not alone. Shira Sameroff has been a member of her beloved PSFC for 25 years. Her work has evolved over apr 6-7 Food Drive to Benefit 25 years of experience with individuals, groups and organizations as a counsel- sat-sun 9 am–7 pm or, workshop facilitator, program director, event planner, activist, board presi- CHiPS Soup Kitchen CHiPS Soup Kitchen, located at Fourth Avenue and Sackett Street, is the dent, volunteer coordinator and more. recipient of much of our edible but unsaleable perishable food. They also need donations of nonperishable foods. This food will go to CHiPS to help them feed people in the neighborhood who are in need of a nutritious meal. Consider contributing nonperishable foods and commercially pack- apr 2 aged foods; canned fish; canned fruits and vegetables; pasta sauce; pasta; tue 7:30 pm Agenda Committee Meeting pre-packaged rice; pre-packaged beans; canned beans; canned soups; Parmalat milk; dry milk; peanut butter; cooking oil; or boxed raisins. Give The Committee reviews pending agenda items and cre- donations to the collection table outside the Coop. ates the agenda for future General Meetings. Drop by and talk with committee members face-to-face between 7:30 and 7:45 p.m. Before submitting an item, read “How to Develop an Agenda Item for the Safe Food Committee Film Night: General Meeting” and fill out the General Meeting Agenda Item Submission apr 9 Form, both available from the Membership Office or at foodcoop.com. tue 7 pm Goddesses of Food The April General Meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 30, 7 p.m., at St. Francis Xavier School, 763 President St., between Sixth and Seventh Aves. In 2013, Time magazine released an international cover story called “The Gods of Food.” Not a single female chef appeared on the list. This documentary changes popular perception. In the male-dominated food uni- Food Class: verse, discover the women changing the game. apr 4 Prominent chefs and journalists investigate what holds women chefs back in thu 7:30 pm Handmade Pasta & Sauce the modern world of cuisine and what needs to be done to change the way We will learn the foundation of homemade pasta. First, we women in the food industry are viewed and covered in the press. Presenting will learn how to make two different kinds of dough, one the best female chefs and introducing rising new stars, Goddesses of Food is a with egg and one without. Then, we will learn the variety of global journey exploring female strength in gastronomy. pasta shapes and their names. This will be a partly hands- See upcoming events, past reviews and a comprehensive list of films shown at on class—participants will get an opportunity to create from the variety of forms. www.plowtoplatefilms.com which can now also be reached via a link on the Park Chef Bartolomeo started to work in restaurants since he was 13 years old on his Slope Food Coop’s home page at www.foodcoop.com. native island of Ischia of Naples, Italy. In his numerous wanderings through Europe, he worked in diverse kitchens and dining rooms with many chefs. Yet the simple, peasant cooking magic of his upbringing never left him. Rustic pasta, humble ingredients and honest cooking. Menu includes: Eggless Pasta; Egg Pasta; Pasta Sauce with Fresh Tomatoes. This class is vegetarian. apr 12 Wordsprouts: ASL interpreter available upon request, please contact the Membership Office. fri 7 pm Materials fee: $5. RSVPs by March 28 are appreciated, contact bit.ly/FoodClassRSVP. Bill Mazza & Gina Magid To inquire about leading a Food Class, go to bit.ly/CCCChef1. In an era of political tumult, can we turn to art to soothe our souls? Or is it the sacred task of art to rouse us to WORDSPROUTS action? Are there examples of great art that do both? Two accomplished artists, Bill Mazza and Gina Magid, will apr 5 Film Night: Celebrate Father’s Day and meet Brian Gresko, share their thoughts and art with us. Mazza’s work uses chance,the editor of the durational, just-published anthology onand accumulative operations. His work explores the relation- fri 7 pm In Our Water shipsfatherhood of people When I First Held to You their environments. At its most practical, this manifests as In this Oscar- and Emmy-nominated, Columbia duPont long-term,When I First Held You: 22volunteer Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk About the engagement with community-based arts organizations that Award–winner, a New Jersey family discovers their Triumphs, Challenges, and Transformative Experience of Fatherhood. share Becomingboth a father can be one presentingof the most profoundly exhilarating, terrifying, voices of traditionally under-represented communities and water well is being poisoned by a landfill. Local and a commitmentlife-changing occasions in a man’s life. In this incomparable to collection social of change, such as Arts for Art (AFA) and the Belladonna* state officials assure them their water is safe to drink, thought-provoking essays, 22 of today’s masterful writers get straight to the heart of Collaborative.modern fatherhood. From making that ultimate At decision to havingits a kid to making least it practical, it results in visual ephemera and artifacts as a five-year saga of bureaucratic neglect and court through the birth, to tangling with a toddler mid-tantrum, and eventually letting a teen from collaborativeloose in the world, these fathers explore every facet of and/or performative events, as with the interdisciplinary, inaction reveals the Kaler’s drinking water could have fatherhood and show how being a father changed Friday, June 13 7:00 p.m. at the Coop been bottled as paint remover. The landfill is declared a Superfund site but as improvisationalthe way they saw the world—and themselves. company Revolution Resurrection R&R. Magid is a Brooklyn- FREE Brian Gresko is the editor of the anthology When I based painter whoNon members creates Welcome psychologically and visually layered imagery in paint, of 2019 has yet to be completely “cleaned up.” With regulations protecting First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers Talk our water again under attack, In Our Water is both cautionary tale and as Paul charcoal,About the Triumphs, Challenges,satin, and Transformative Experience and of Fatherhood. His workother materials. Through her work, she seeks to express the has appeared in Poets & Writers Magazine, Glimmer Train Stories, and The Brooklyn Rail, Brodeur of New Yorker magazine wrote “A Stirring Call To Action.” non-verbal,and online at The Huffington Post , seeminglySalon, TheAtlantic.com, The Los Angeles Review of illogical undercurrent which connects all things. Her visu- Environmentalists, parents, citizens and water drinkers everywhere can benefit al languageBooks, and many other sites. mirrors the friction between the natural world (our instinctive nature) from experiencing this exceptional movie. Twenty-year Coop member Meg and our Refreshmentsconditioning. will be served. Magid draws references from film, literature, historical and All Wordsprout participants are Coop members. Bookings: John Donohue, [email protected]

Views expressed by the presenters do not necessarily represent the Park Slope Food Coop. For more information on these and other events, visit the Coop’s website: foodcoop.com All events take place at the Park Slope Food Coop unless otherwise noted. Nonmembers are welcome to attend workshops. Views expressed by the presenter do not necessarily represent the Park Slope Food Coop.

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C AC A esd r Items will be taken up in the order given. Times in parentheses are suggestions. More information on each item may be available at the entrance table at the meeting. We ask members to please read the materials avail- able between 7:00 7:15 p.m. Meeting Location: Congregation Beth Elohim Social Hall (Garfield Temple) 274 Garfield Pl. at 8th Ave.

AA e Ann snr Coee eon nes Election: The committee will present four members to be re- personal events, from fashion and dreams. Her paintings engage the viewer with elected.submitted by the Disciplinary Committee e ord o reors Cnddes resenons nes universal aspects of the human condition, putting an emphasis on the feminine, Discussion: “Presentationapr by candidates 30 for the Board of Directors followed by questions for the candidates” PSFC APR General Meeting or anima, apotheosis of the psyche. re Aend noron For information ontue how to place 7 an pm item on the Agenda, please see the center pages of the Lineaiters Gaette. Free for all Coop members & non-members. Refreshments will be served. Bookings: The Agenda Committee minutes and the satatus of pending agenda items are available in the office and at all GMs. Meeting Agenda to be announced. For information on Sarah Schenck, [email protected]. how to place an item on the Agenda, please see the center pages of the Linewaiters’ Gazette. The Agenda Committee minutes and the status of pending agenda items are available in the Coop office. Learn About Cheese Meeting location: St. Francis Xavier School, 763 President St., between Sixth apr 13 and Seventh Aves. sat 2 pm at the Coop Cheese education at the Coop continues with another tasting session led by Coop member and American Cheese Society Certified Cheese Professional, Elena Santogade. This month’s class will feature a selection of unique cheeses may 2 Food Class from around the world and fun pairings you can try at home! thu 7:30 pm Food Class to be announced. To inquire about leading a Food Class, go to bit.ly/CCCChef1. apr 19 Mare Berger; fri 8 pm Friday, Oct 19, 8:00 pm Ludovica Burtone Mare Berger has been playing the piano for 34 years, and has played may 3 Film Night at notable venues including The fri 7 pm Jazz Standard, Broadway, and the Friday evening music at the Good Coffeehouse, brewing a new beat Film to be announced. Renee Weiler Concert Hall. Mare Wool & Grant. Two veteran singer/songwriters with a mutual passion for songs, stories, harmonies and To book a Film Night, contact Gabriel Rhodes, guitars. Bev Grant and Ina May Wool create a musi- cal alchemy of fire and feistiness, wisdom and wit, believes in the importancerocking clear- of collaboration as a way of Park Slope local singer and eyed political guitarist Mamie Minch sounds songs along [email protected]. something like a well-fleshed- with a window out 78-rpm record. She’s known on to their fightingaround town for herfascism Piedmont- and travels—onoppression, the and facilitates regular style fingerpicking chops, her big road and around deep voice and her self-penned the heart. antique-sounding songs. She’s played music all over the world workshopsand Brooklyn, with all kinds of encouraging people to imagine together: excellent people, including Dayna Kurtz, the Roulette Sisters, CollectiveJimbo Mathis and CW Stoneking. Songwriting for Collective Liberation. Mare will www.ProspectConcerts.tumblr.com

53 Prospect Park West [at 2nd Street] • $10 • 8pm [doors open at 7:45] Performersbe performingare Park Slope Food Coop members andoriginal receive Coop workslot credit.songs for voices and string quartet Booking: Bev Grant, 718-788-3741 aboutPARK SLOPE FOOD COOP the 782 Union St., moon,Brooklyn, NY 11215 (btwn 6thloss, & 7th Av.) • (718) 622-0560 and becoming whole. The moon is always full, even when we forget. All of the songs have audience participation, so come sing along! Mare is an may 4 avid lover of the Park Slope Food Coop, teaches piano and sat 2 pm Farm Where You Live songwriting, and also performs improv comedy. Joining Mare will be Sonia Szajnberg, voice; Rebecca Sullivan, Is cohousing for you? Grow food right where you live, and share in a farming voice; Ilusha Tsinadze, guitar/voice; Ludovica Burtone, violin; Sarah Alden, violin; enterprise that provides fruits and vegetables for a CSA. Own your home but share Brian Thompson, viola; and Mariel Roberts, cello. Versatile violinist, improviser, common spaces, meals & activities. This presentation illustrates examples of cur- and composer Ludovica Burtone has performed worldwide as both a soloist and rently functioning cohousing communities that follow this model, as well as one chamber musician. Classically trained with a master of arts in violin performance, that is almost ready for move-in, less than 2 hrs from NYC. View slides and talk she moved from Italy to the States to pursue and complete a diploma in jazz com- with experienced farmers and permaculture experts who are transforming 33 acres position and immerse herself in different musical styles. Ludovica Burtone Sparks of land in CT into an organic farming cohousing community. Know your food, grow is the result of these past experiences, bringing together the strings with the your food—organic farm; energy-efficient and sustainable homes; child, animal, rhythm section. Mixing the classical with the Brazilian tradition, enriched with col- and pedestrian friendly; own your own home and share many common spaces & ors of jazz and improvisation, the band performs a mix of originals and arrange- meals; designed to foster human interaction; active involvement in the manage- ments, doing a musical journey around the world. ment of the community. Elvira Ferrario is a Coop member, involved for the past 10 Concert takes place at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 53 Prospect years in creating community in a cohousing setting. Brenda Caldwell ran a CSA Park West (at 2nd St.), $10, doors open at 7:45. Prospect Concerts is a vegetable farm based on organic practices and permaculture concepts. She is now monthly musical fundraising partnership of the Coop and the Brooklyn creating a whole farm plant and animal system at Rocky Corner that focuses on Society for Ethical Culture. building resilient, carbon-rich soil. Dick Margulis spent 18 years growing organic vegetables, herbs, and flowers, beginning in 1975. Richard Wilber is a gardener certified in permaculture, and a woodworker and painter. He believes that living in community and growing our own food is important for the health of our planet. apr 20 Everything You Ever Wanted RSVP (preferred): [email protected]. sat 2–4:20 pm to Know About CBD Oil This informational workshop is to help you understand what CBD oil is and how it works with your body’s endocannabinoid system. Hear answers to may 7 Agenda Committee Meeting questions such as: What’s the difference between CBD and THC? How does tue 7:30 pm CBD work? What does the FARM bill mean for CBD production? Staff facil- itators Jana Cunningham and Theresa Gray will be joined by speakers Greg The Committee reviews pending agenda items and cre- Kerber (CEO of Gnome Serum), Brian Grosso (Regional Business Manager of ates the agenda for future General Meetings. Drop by Charlotte’s Web), Brooks Juhring (SunSoil), Adrian Edwards (Life Gardening and talk with committee members face-to-face Tools) and Bart Beckermann (Radical Roots). between 7:30 and 7:45 p.m. Before submitting an item, read “How to Develop an Agenda Item for the General Meeting” and fill out the General Meeting Agenda Item Submission Form, both available from the Membership Office or at foodcoop.com. The May General Meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 28, 7 p.m., at St. Francis Xavier School, 763 President St., between Sixth and Seventh Aves.

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SHOULD THE COOP we and our children become was, I quickly looked at the or after being shot in the A friend of mine years ago CARRY DOG AND disgusted and outraged when label. And there it was–giant head with electric stun guns was shopping at Whole Foods CAT MEAT? HOW we discover that a product bags of bunny meat that the designed to render them and put her son in the back of contains parts of the animals Coop is selling in the frozen unconscious, or while their a grocery cart. Not in the front ABOUT BUNNIES? that we love and cherish. That foods section next to the fro- throats are being slit. part which is designed for a is why stores do not typically zen pie crusts as dog food! I promise that I won’t feed young child to sit upright and TO THE EDITOR: carry meat of cats or dogs. Really, dog food! I couldn’t my rabbit dog or cats, if these grab things off the shelves. We love our pets, and for While we can debate wheth- recall members ever being few dog owners don’t feed He was in the back, the cart good reason; they bring us er other animals should be asked by the Coop to vote on their dogs rabbits, at least tipped over somehow, and joy and companionship and eaten, we understand that such a controversial product. not that sold by the Coop. he got a mild traumatic brain love and laughter. They help the eating of animals that we When I first joined the I encourage anyone who injury and permanent hearing teach our children profound typically keep as pets crosses Coop as a member in the shares my concerns and val- loss to one ear. I think this lessons about caring for a moral and ethical line. So 1980s, it was inconceivable ues to speak out and demand story is worth sharing. I’ve other living creatures, about why then does the Coop carry that the Coop would carry that the Coop immediately worked in neuro-rehab and understanding that there is the meat of bunnies? such a product or that the stop carrying bunny meat (for think it’s worth mentioning more to existence than just While packing out the fro- members would allow it. pets or humans). that using the right cart in the ourselves, and how to devel- zen food this past Sunday, I The Coop’s Environmental Sincerely, right way when transporting op deep bonds with all living was shocked and felt a deep policy states: The Coop will Mark Bierman your child through the Coop things. I watched for years as sense of revulsion when, after strive to support the best is a good idea. my own children developed a packing out some frozen waf- products and practices in Your friend in health and safety deep love and attachment for fles, tortillas and blueberries, regard to the health, safety, THE RIGHT WAY TO for little ones, our own bunny, who our kids I went to pack out the next and preservation of humans, USE A COOP CART Dorothy Callahan named Rocky Fredrickson. item. It was large bags of pink animals, and the overall bio- TO TRANSPORT There is a reason then that cubes. Not knowing what it sphere that it can achieve. CHILDREN So how is carrying bunny A SERVICE DOG meat for dogs to eat contrib- HI MEMBERS, SPEAKS THE GAZETTE INDEXES uting to the preservation of I work with children with If you are interested in the history of the Coop or in when and animals? It is not. Just the communication impairments, MEMBERS, how particular subjects have been discussed in the Linewaiters’ opposite is true. It is also currently with many who are I am writing in response Gazette... undermining the heart and nonverbal or minimally ver- to the recent letter “Service Send an e-mail to Len Neufeld, Gazette indexer, at lenneufeld@ soul and core of the Coop’s bal, and I joke that I love doing Dogs” (February 28 issue). I verizon.net, to request PDF files of either or both of the following values, so that a handful of my 5:45 a.m. shift at the Coop offered to write this response indexes: cooperators can give their because there are so many as I am a working Service Dog, • An alphabetized list of the titles of all articles published in the Gazette from 1995 to the present, with issue dates. dogs a “treat.” interesting grownups to talk so I have a lot of experience • An alphabetized list of all subjects (including people’s names) Rabbit processing plants to! But I feel I owe an apology with this topic. You may be discussed in Gazette articles from 1995 to the present, with article are not subject to mandatory to a member who came to my wondering how a dog could titles, issue dates, and page numbers (titles and subjects for ear- federal or state inspection. checkout spot with his cutie be writing this letter and all lier years are being added). Even in those slaughter hous- pie in a green basket, in a mini I can say is that AOC and I Many of the Gazette issues referenced in these indexes are es that subject themselves to cart, with a green basket full both received formal training available as PDFs on the Coop’s website. (Copies of these and voluntary inspection, there of squeezie fruit and veggies in Yorktown Heights (#Dog- additional issues are also available at Brooklyn’s Central Library, are reports of rabbits scream- below. There was a story to SocialistsofAmerica). Also located at Flatbush Ave. and Eastern Pkwy. on Grand Army Plaza.) ing and squirming during share and I chose not to. my handler was pretty upset after reading your letter, I knew he was upset because I am specially trained to EXPERIENCED REPORTERS respond to the psychophysi- ological signs and symptoms Please Apply related to a disability. Also The Diversity and Equality Committee will hold an Open many thanks to the compas- House for those interested in joining the committee on Workslot Description sionate Coop members who We have four distinct Linewaiters’ took a moment to talk to my Thursday, April 11. Please contact us before the Open House Gazette teams—each producing an handler about how he was at [email protected]. We’ll follow up to answer issue every eight weeks. You will feeling about your letter. questions and provide details for attending. develop and produce an article about To be clear: it is unfair to the Coop in cooperation with your people who rely on the assis- team’s editor every eight weeks. The work of the DEC is varied, tance of a Service Dog in order to navigate the Coop interesting and collaborative. We’d like For More Information (which can be quite emotion- our membership to re ect the range If you would like to speak to an editor or another reporter to ally stressful and physical- of ethnicities, nationalities, gender learn more about the job, please contact Annette Laskaris in ly daunting at times), when the Membership Office or e-mail her at annetteATpsfcDOTcoop. identities, sexual orientations, abilities people enter with animals and ages represented at the Coop. All To Apply who are not properly trained or experienced enough to members are welcome to apply. The Please send a letter of application and two writing samples at least 800 words long (one sample must be a reported interview, operate under such condi- committee particularly encourages not a Q&A) to annetteATpsfcDOTcoop. Your letter should tions. This is a different idea Latina/x/o, Asian-Pacic Islander, state your qualifications, your Coop history, relevant experience of fairness, of course, then Indigenous, persons with a disability, and why you would like to report for the Coop. Your application your claim that “...it is unfair male-identied and masculine spectrum members to apply. If you have will be acknowledged and forwarded to the coordinating editors, to the Coop.” We found the Alison Rose Levy and Carl Arnold. nature of your letter to be mediation, workshop facilitation, event organizing, arts, research or unkind and indeed unfair, as language-translation skills we would welcome your contributions. Seeking Diversity on the Gazette Staff it did not take into account The Gazette is looking for qualified reporters. We are interested in the experience of members The January 17 issue of the Linewaiters’ Gazette has a great using this opportunity to diversify our staff. We believe that we can who require Service Dogs. cover story on the DEC if you’d like to know about what we’re enrich the quality of the Gazette and serve the membership better While we have come up with a reporting and editing staff that more closely resembles the against an aggressive and up to these days. It’s at foodcoop.com. mix of Coop members. ignorant response from the public in a limited few places,

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the Coop has been a welcom- of proving one’s legitimacy from Israel save the green, coming from each region– from (including from Coop ing and positive place for us. and having their membership which is domestic. Does an which affects what is avail- families!), and features a Sometimes my handler even “flagged” in the system is on organic alternative to Isra- able to us at any one time. performance live via Skype allows members to interact its face discriminatory. el exist? Never mind Boy- Thank you, from kids at the AFCE- with me, like a member who The ADA law is clear: cott, Divest, and Sanction, Joe Szladek, General Coordinator CO orphanage in Kabul, recently lost her mother and while you may not harass of which I am sympathetic, John Horsman, Produce Buyer Afghanistan—a very special broke into tears as she hugged an individual, nor deny surely the carbon footprint is moment, especially since me and I kissed her face. I was them access with a Service considerable for these sweet it’s too dangerous for the happy to share that moment Animal, if said animal is peppers. Does a source inside KIDS ROCK FOR girls to play music in public of spiritual connection with out of control or causing a the Western Hemisphere even KIDS where they live. her, because I knew that she legitimate disturbance, then exist for organic peppers? I For more information and needed it and it’s my raison they may be asked to correct am curious to know. Thanks. TO THE EDITOR: video, search Facebook for d’etre. However, I respect that the behavior or to leave the Damien Neva I am writing to promote “Kids Rock For Kids 2019.” others need to keep a reason- premises. Let me simplify “Kids Rock For Kids”—an Yours in community spirit, able distance from me. this for you: “if it walks like amazing upcoming benefit Lisa Schorr Nonetheless, the notion a duck and quacks like a HELLO, show at The Bell House (April that some people or their duck...” That said, let’s not The Mexican pepper sea- 7, 3:00 p.m.), that benefits children who have a phobia of start a “duck hunt,” because son has recently ended and CHiPS in Park Slope, as well dogs should enter the discus- I’m not trained for that. during the transitional peri- as The Afghan Child Educa- sion about access for Service Cooperatively yours, od between the Mexican tion and Care Organization Animals is wrong. Further- K-9 CALI, John Munz and local growing season, (AFCECO). Now in its third more, your use of “genuine- high quality peppers are year, this growing event fea- ness or legitimateness” in available from both Holland tures kid musicians, dancers, regard to disability is cal- ORGANIC BELL and Israel. Our distributors and comedians performing to lous, as it conjures feelings PEPPERS purchase from both of these benefit kids-related charities, of shame, fear, self-doubt regions, but will often only both local and global. and depression in those who MEMBERS, carry from one at a time The event started in Park may be battling to overcome Organic bell peppers car- depending on the quality Slope where almost all of those very feelings. The idea ried by the Coop all come and price of the peppers the kids performers are

Making Cheese She made a surprising dis- Together with her 39 sisters very French, with a subdued semi-soft cheese with a bright CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 covery: the stainless steel at the abbey, she makes a salt profile. American chees- orange rind. It was first cur- vats the FDA had required her raw-milk cheese called “Beth- es tend to have a higher salt dled in the 1800s at the Notre this kind of mistake!” to use after the listeria scare lehem” as well as one called profile. The flavors of [Beth- Dame du Port-du-Salut. As This is all the more remark- contained more bad bacteria “Etoile,” which means “star” in lehem] aren’t aggressive, was then, as is the case today, able given the devastating than the old wooden barrel French. and it’s very expressive of the cheese, as well as beer and listeria outbreak that hit she used to use, in her more landscape.” wine, were produced by nuns cheesemakers across the traditional form of cheese- “In raw milk there’s a very Monastic cheeses, or and monks to help sustain country in 1985, killing 28 making. It turns out that the cheese made at monasteries themselves, and was not run people in total (10 newborns wooden barrel enabled the complex ecosystem ... If you or abbeys, have been around as a business. and 18 adults) and causing growth of good bacteria on pasteurize the milk, you’re since the middle ages. Muen- While the Park Slope Food 20 miscarriages in pregnant the cheese to protect against destroying bacteria, most of ster is derived from the Latin Coop carries many types of women who had consumed pathogens. it, so you are left with a very “monastarium,” and the delicious cheeses, none are the contaminated cheese. At Not only that, the U.S. fear simple system which may cheese was first made by made by nuns. If you want this time, Mother Noella Mar- of raw milk cheeses, which is have less protection in it.” Benedictine monks in Germa- to taste some holy Gouda cellino and a few of her fellow not an issue in France, may be ny. Epoisses, a creamy French for yourself, Our Lady of the nuns at the Abbey of Regina unfounded. The 1985 listeria —Mother Noella cheese beloved by Napo- Angels has shipped to cus- Laudis in Bethlehem, Con- outbreak, after all, was not a leon Bonaparte, was born in tomers in nearly every state necticut, decided to go the result of bacteria from the raw “In our cheese cellar we the Cistercian Monastery of in the world. And the famous extra mile to ensure the safe- milk itself but from existing observed over time that cer- Epoisses. Then there’s Port- raw milk Bethlehem cheese is ty of their cheese by enrolling pathogens in unpasteurized tain fungi grew naturally on Salut, which, while sweet- available for sale in limited in microbiology courses at the milk that was added to the the cheese rinds in a way that er than Muenster, is also a batches. n University of Connecticut. raw milk. was reproducible and pre- Mother Noella, 68, first “In raw milk there’s a very dictable and paralleled the began making cheese in 1977. complex ecosystem,” Mother course of ripening of tradi- When she started, she was Noella told The New York Times tional St. Nectaire cheese in clueless. “I was praying for an in 2004. “If you pasteurize the the Auvergne,” the website of old French woman” to come milk, you’re destroying bac- the Abbey of Regina Laudis train her, she said in a 2016 teria, most of it, so you are explains. “Bethlehem cheese CBS interview. Miraculous- left with a very simple system thus provided a model for the ly, a young French woman, a which may have less protec- study of stable microbial suc- third generation cheesemak- tion in it.” cession during ripening in a er, showed up at the abbey Mother Noella’s research natural environment.” doorstep and spent a few and advocacy for making That is precisely what days teaching Mother Noella cheese the traditional way— makes the Bethlehem cheese how to make St. Nectaire, a with raw milk and from the at Regina Laudis so special. creamy semi-soft cheese from rich fungi found in old cheese “You can’t get any more place the Auvergne region in central caves—has earned her a based than that cheese,” France. science award from France said Zoe Brickley, who is in During Mother Noella’s and the title of “The Cheese charge of development and studies at the University of Nun,” also the name of a marketing at Jasper Hill Farm Connecticut—she eventual- 2006 PBS documentary about in Wisconsin. “It doesn’t use ly got a Ph.D. in microbiolo- her scientific work in France any commercial cultures. gy—she received a Fulbright scraping mold off of the old You’re tasting the cultures scholarship to study fungi in cheese caves and studying that she’s cultivated from her

the cheese caves of France. them under her microscope. own surroundings. It’s subtle, SCHICKER BY EVA ILLUSTRATION

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PLASTIC PACKAGING RECYCLING N EXCITING WORKSLOT OPPORTUNITIES N Terracycle, Plastic and follow detailed instructions for clean- Wednesday, April 10, 3:45-6 p.m. ing the scales, printers, and monitors as Saturday, April 27, 1:45-4 p.m. Recycling - Saturday well as cleaning the furniture and organiz- Three hours per shift, one shift per ing checkout worker’s tools and supplies. month on the fourth Saturday of the Must arrive on time at 6 a.m. Please report For Coop members only month, 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. to the Membership Office on your first Please be prepared to show your Coop membership card. Must be prepared to work outdoors work shift. in front of the Coop, winter months Plastic bags/wrap/packaging from most products included. Tasks include: Setting up the sold at the Coop—food and non-food. Maintenance TERRACYCLE table and bringing sup- Thin plastic film wrap—from notecards, tea boxes, Sunday, 8:30 - 10:30 p.m. pre-packaged cheese, household items, pet food, juice packs, etc. plies down to your work area. Staffing the This shift includes a variety of cleaning TERRACYCLE table throughout the shift. Plastic roll bags distributed by the Coop—please use roll tasks that focus on deep cleaning the pro- bags only as necessary, reduce usage whenever possible, and Helping to educate recycles about the duce cases. The work includes removing re-use any bags you do take before recycling. TERRACYCLE PROGRAM. Making sure produce from particular sections, scrub- Plastic food storage zip lock bags (any size), plastic cling only acceptable recyclables are donated. bing, hosing down shelves and dividers, wrap, and small bulk bags. Packing the TERRACYCLE shipping box/ and restocking the cases. Other tasks may boxes and taking them to the UPS store. include cleaning, sweeping, mopping areas NO food residue, rinse as needed. More detail provide once you sign-up— of the shopping floor, basement and Coop’s Only soft plastic from Coop purchases. this squad communicates via email so bathrooms. Gloves and cleaning supply please make sure the Membership Office are provided. Because the shift is only two For all community has your correct email address on file. hours arriving on time is essential. members: Dairy Inventory Monday, 6 - 8:45 a.m. Maintenance Pre-sort and separate according to the categories below. Sunday, 9 - 11 p.m. This is the perfect job for someone This shift includes a variety of cleaning who prefers to work alone and on a sin- Toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes tasks that focus on deep cleaning the gle project for the majority of your shift. Energy bar wrappers and granola bar wrappers refrigerated cases. The work includes Necessary skills: good handwriting, abil- Brita water filters and related items (other brands removing products from particular cases, ity to count by 6, 12 and 24, reliability also accepted) scrubbing, hosing down shelves, and and very good attention to detail. Under Cereal and cracker bags/box liners restocking the cases. Other tasks may the supervision of the Coop’s dairy buy- include cleaning, sweeping, mopping ers, you will take an accurate inventory Donations in any amount are welcomed to help areas of the shopping floor and basement. offset the cost to the Coop of this collection. of unsold product in the walk-in coolers Gloves and cleaning supply are provided. on shopping floor and in the basement Interested in joining the squads that run the Wednesday/Saturday collection? Because the shift is only two hours arriv- Contact Cynthia Pennycooke in the Membership Office. (we provide appropriate warm outerwear. ing on time is essential. For more information about Terracycle, visit terracycle.com Please ask for Eddie upon arrival. Questions about items we accept should be e-mailed to [email protected] Office Set-up Receiving Produce Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Monday through Friday, 5 - 7:30 a.m. 6 - 8:30 a.m. Start your day early with a workout and a Need an early riser with lots of energy to sense of accomplishment! Work side-by-side do a variety of physical tasks including: set- with our paid staff receiving daily fresh pro- ting up tables and chairs, buying food and duce deliveries. If you are willing to get your COMMUNITY CALENDAR supplies, labeling and putting away food hands a little dirty, lift and stack boxes, and and supplies, recycling, washing dishes and work in our basement coolers, then you’ll fit Community calendar listings are free. Please submit your making coffee. Sound like your dream come right in. We promise your energy will be put event listing in 50 words or less to GazetteSubmissions@psfc. true? This job might be for you. Please speak to good use. Boxes usually weigh between coop. Submission deadlines are the same as for classified ads. to Mary Gerety or Jana Cunningham in the 2-30 lbs, but can weigh up to 50 lbs. Please refer to the Coop Calendar in the center of this issue. Membership Office for more information. Bread Invoice Checking Camp Friendship, 339 8th Street, Sunday Daytime Flexible FRI, MAR 29 Bathroom Cleaning Brooklyn. $15 general / $12 stu- Monday, Thursday, Friday, 12 - 2 p.m. This shift is a double shift done once every 7:30 p.m. Tannahill Weavers, dent. Volunteers dance free. This job involves cleaning the Coop’s 6 eight weeks, alternating with another bread one of Scotland’s premier brooklyncontra.org bathrooms: 2 on the shopping floor, one voucherer. The job entails entering all of the traditional bands, Roy Gul- bread invoices into our online bookkeeping lane (guitar and vocals), Phil in the basement, and 3 on the second SAT, APR 6 system (approximately 100-120 invoices per Smillie (flute, bodhran, whis- floor. Using a checklist of tasks the squad tles and vocals), John Martin 8 p.m. Anne Price; Steve Suffet. of two members will coordinate the work week; and generating and receiving 10-12 (fiddle, cello and vocals). At Peoples’ Voice Cafe, 40 E. 35th St., by dividing up various cleaning tasks that vendor invoices in the inventory system. Second Presbyterian Church, NY. Sug. contribution $20/12 for include, but are not limited to, scrubbing Sunday availability is a must, you may enter 6 West 96th St. at Central subscribers, youth, students. floor tile, cleaning toilets and sinks, mop- the all the invoices on Sunday, or on Sunday Park West, Manhattan. Con- ping floors, and re-supplying the bath- plus other days during week. The hours are tribution: General public $25/ flexible, starting anytime between 10 a.m. SUN, APR 7 rooms. The Coop only uses all natural Folk Music Society NY mem- products for its maintenance tasks. This and 6:30 p.m. until all the invoices have bers $20. Info folkmusicny. 3 p.m. KIDS ROCK FOR KIDS job is perfect for members who like to been entered. You will be part of a team of org/#tannahill. 2019 Benefit Show at the Bell clean and will be conscientious about 8 bread voucherers and will arrange swaps House. Kid bands, dancers and among yourselves. Job requires someone comedians perform for kid-re- doing a thorough job. Please report to the FRI, APR 5 who is comfortable working with comput- lated charities, both local Membership Office on your first shift. ers, detail-oriented, extremely reliable, and 7:30 p.m. Brooklyn Contra Dance. and global; all proceeds go to If swing and square dancing met CHiPS in Park Slope and AFCE- Store Equipment Cleaning has Sunday availability. Job requires spe- in a bar, you’d get Contra. Live CO in Afghanistan. $10 (kids 5 Monday, Wednesday, 6 - 8 a.m. cial training done on the job. YOU MUST music, bringing a partner is not and under free). Search Face- This job involves meticulous deep clean- CONTACT Lisa Hidem at lisa_hidem@psfc. necessary. A great way to meet book “Kids Rock For Kids 2019” ing of the store’s checkout equipment and coop or 718-622-0560 before signing up for new people! 1st & 3rd Fridays @ for video & details. furniture. Workers are required to read this workslot.

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Read the Gazette while you’re standing on line OR online at www.foodcoop.com 16 March 28, 2019 Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY Candidates for Board of Directors of the Park Slope Food Coop, Inc. Two three-year terms on the Board are open. To vote you may use a proxy or attend the Food Coop Annual Meeting on June 25, 2019. Every member will receive a proxy package in the mail in late May. You will have the opportunity to meet the candidates at the June 25 Annual Meeting. Candidate statements follow. Imani Q’ryn I wondered, “What can I do to encourage greater the Board Members that we’ve had since the Board was diversity and participation in the meeting?” I live by instituted decades ago have accepted this policy. I have been a member of the the words of Gandhi who said, “Be the change you I take the mandate to trust the membership and Coop for 23 years. I joined seek to see in the world.” I decided to join the Chair take their advice as a sacred duty. It’s not my opinion, because I wanted to eat Committee soon after my first meeting. I have been or my position on an issue that is important. It is vital only fresh organic food. The committed to making all people feel welcomed at the that I respect and trust the voice of the membership. Coop provides the savings I meeting, being fair and open to all sides of an issue The membership guides my vote. need to be able to afford to and to being clear on the policies and how the meet- The purpose of the Park Slope Food Coop Board do that. I love the Coop, its ing is run. I am encouraged that in the last few years is to be a safeguard for the voice of our membership. energy, the diversity of the our General Meeting attendance has grown signifi- We are fulfilling the legal requirements of the state membership, the ideals of cantly due to a change in the work slot credit policy. and holding sacred our right as a Coop to govern our- cooperation and democracy I was elected to the Board of Directors 14 years ago selves. We must have Board Members who hold this and above all the beautiful and have continuously served in this capacity. I have dear and whose number one priority is to the Coop food at unbelievable prices. served on the board longer than any other elected mem- and its membership. The Coop reflects what’s possible in the world. It’s a ber. I am also still a member of the Chair Committee and In closing, I have intimate experience with Coop privilege to be a part of it. have been so throughout my service on the Board. policies, procedures and the workings of the Board of I started going to the General Meetings in 2001. Our Board of Directors is not a typical Board. It was Directors. I think our cooperative process works and Initially, I went for work slot credit and was surprised required by state law that the Coop have a Board of as a board member I respect the members’ delibera- to discover that the meeting was small compared to Directors. As a cooperative we liked our town hall style tions and will strive to ensure that the General Meet- the vast size of our membership and that the diversity of governance, that every member has a say, every ing remains the highest decision-making body in the which I saw while shopping at the Coop was not pow- member has a vote. We wanted to continue that tradi- Coop. I will also continue to encourage diversity in the erfully reflected in the meeting. I thought to myself, tion. The Coop’s attorney at that time came up with the General Meeting as well as all aspects of the Coop. “here is the decision-making body of the Coop and idea that the Board should take the advice of the mem- My candidacy has been endorsed by the General only a few members are making these decisions and bers on all subjects as a means of limiting the powers Coordinators of the Coop and I welcome that support. even fewer people of color. “ of the Board. It was written into our By Laws. Most of Please vote for me. Thank you for your consideration. n

Jesse Rosenfeld stage. My present workslot is Secretary for the General such, the Board is obligated to remain alert to the Meeting where I take the minutes every month. Our legal and fiduciary responsibilities of the Coop rather A member since 2004, I have meetings are one special set of gears in the whole than maintain advocacy for any particular issue. Mem- worked as cashier, 2nd floor enterprise, and I’m proud to have been re-elected bers at the coming election will likely ask a version of, guest registration, cheese and yearly since 2011. “How will you improve the Coop as a member of the olive bagger, FTOP stock boy, I love it at the Coop. I meet people here I wouldn’t Board?” My answer will be, “There is nothing that a and babysitter. My paid pro- usually encounter and discuss things I wouldn’t have Board member should do outside of taking the advice fession is that of Addictions ever known about. I shop every couple of days because of the membership on how to vote for proposals, Counselor on the Lower East of its warm familiarity, and I like being part of an orga- which they have always done.” For any proposal that Side. My free time has been nization that is a standard-bearer for food and envi- is problematic, I will ask myself the same questions as galvanized by the 2016 elec- ronmental justice. The Coop is my chosen community any Board member: tions and I have joined Get and I feel a part of it every day when I walk down 7th Will a proposal ratified by the General Meeting put Organized Brooklyn, and their Avenue, seeing fellow members on their way to and the financial and legal health of the Coop at risk? offshoot Racial Justice BK. from the store. Does the proposal violate the spirit and letter of Supporting our cooperative goals of shared suc- With a proven record of support for the health of the Coop’s own by-laws or NYS articles of incorpora- cess, I have brought products to our shelves and suc- our enterprise, I am running for the Board of Direc- tion, and our own mission statement? cessfully carried an agenda proposal to the approval tors because I see the Coop as a business first. As Thank you and I look forward to your vote. n

Allen Zimmerman ing, participation in our management team. I most allow for more inclusion without sacrificing active give enjoyed apprenticing with Joe Holtz, our first pro- and take. I have been a member of the duce buyer. When the staff needed Joe to take on For most of my adult life I have loved, served, sup- Park Slope Food Coop for the responsibility of General Manager, I became our ported, promoted and defended the Park Slope Food over 40 years. I have served produce buyer. I enjoyed supervising and training a Coop. I will continue to do so. I have never been a on the Board of Directors growing produce staff and especially enjoyed working rubber stamp for the General Coordinators, even before I was hired as a Gen- with countless members before the crack of dawn. It when I was one. As a board member I have always eral Coordinator in 1988 is gratifying to me that the lessons I learned from Joe voted to support the decisions of the members at and again after I retired in and then taught to my produce team are still evident every General Meeting. I support the Rochdale Prin- 2015. I have attended over whenever I shop. ciples of Cooperation. I support our Mission State- 400 General Meetings and I love the Park Slope Food Coop and believe in the ment but more importantly to me, I support the chaired many times. I co-au- General Meeting. I appreciate the face to face inter- mission that we had long before we had a statement, thored our original meeting action. I remember instances when I came to a meet- “Good food at affordable prices for working members rules of order and worked ing to support or advocate for a position and had my through cooperation.” I hope that I have earned your with the team that wrote our current version. mind changed by a single differing voice. I don’t want trust over the years and that you will support my can- When I was hired in 1988 our staff grew from three to give up on our meeting style and the opportunity didacy for the Board of Directors as have the General to four. I was responsible for a great deal of buying, to persuade or be persuaded in real time. I want to Coordinators who have endorsed me. Thank you for supervision of deliveries, some minor bookkeep- learn about meeting alternatives or innovations that reading my statement. n

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