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OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE PARK SLOPE FOOD COOP
Established 1973
Volume II, Number 13 June 26, 2014 Amber Waves of Grain By Alison Rose Levy ver the last decade, a regional grain initiative has been spearheaded Oby farmers, artisanal bakers and a trio of regional non-profit and educational institutions. These include Cornell University College of Agricultural and Life Science’s Small Grains Project, the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY) and Greenmarket GrowNYC. On June 23rd, their event, “Reinventing the Hudson Valley Breadbasket,” was held in Red Hook, New York to showcase small grains varieties for local and specialty markets.
Why Eat Ancient? starch,” says Russell. “Starchy mother grain—the original ILLUSTRATION BY DEBORAH TINT Emmer, an “ancient” grain, foods are not healthy. Some the others descended from. differs from the refined and people feel grain must be fer- The heritage grains grown in bleached wheat used in mented to promote better this region include rye, buck- Walk-to-Live: Imani House Wonder Bread. The vintage, digestion—as is done in wheat, non-GMO corn—and ecological role and nutri- preparing sourdough bread. barley for both food and Fights Childhood Obesity tional composition of each But mass produced food beer,” says Russell. By Ed Levy “Fruit for life” was this grain is unique. According to products are cooked rapidly. igh-poverty communities year’s walkathon theme, June Russell, Manager of This doesn’t allow the Receiving Coordinator Hmust take the keys to inspiring many parents and Farm Inspections and Strate- enzymes to break down. Ron Zisa reports that the health into their own hands. children to wear the colors gic Development at Green- Along with bleaches, brown- Coop currently offers This is the message of Coop and photos of their favorite market, GrowNYC, healthful ing and caking agents and member Sister Bisi Iderab- fruit. After-walk festivities ancient and heritage grains other unlabeled additives, all spelt flour and berries, and dullah, founder and head of included music, African are nutritious and flavorful, of this may contribute to the emmer flour and berries Imani House, a youth devel- drumming and dance, CPR with good vitamin and min- uptick in allergy incidence.” from Small Valley Milling, opment and family support and health demonstrations, eral uptake and higher pro- Ancient and so-called her- a Pennsylvania-based mill organization that addresses prizes and, of course, lots of tein content than refined itage grains also have a lower which sells organic products. issues of poverty and nutri- free fruit. and denatured flours. It’s glycemic index and higher This summer, the Coop will tion. In keeping with that Sister Bisi created the these refined, commodity protein content, making mission, Imani House spon- Walk-to-Live Walkathon as a grains and their products, them good transitional foods also begin carrying sored its second Walk-to-Live way for communities in high- which most people con- from high meat consump- oats from Maine Grains, Walkathon on Sunday, June ly affected areas in New York sume, which may have given tion, Russell says. Plus they a mill in Skowhegan, Maine. 22, when adults and children City, especially communities grains a bad name. taste good. came together in Prospect of color, to take preventive “All the nutrition is “Emmer tastes sweeter. Park to walk off extra calories, action against childhood stripped out and what’s left is Einkorn is nutty. It’s the Finding the Best develop the habit of exercise obesity. The walk is a chance Grain Varieties and learn about healthier to counter the cultural con- Via a four-year long grant eating. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 from the federal government, Cornell’s Dr. Mark Sorrells is Next General Meeting on July 29 identifying the grain varieties The General Meeting of the Park Slope Food Coop is held on the that grow best in New York’s last Tuesday of each month. The July General Meeting will be on varied micro-climes. He Tuesday, July 29, at 7:00 p.m. at MS 51, 350 Fifth Ave., between notes that both ancient and Fourth and Fifth Sts. Enter on Fourth St. cul-de-sac. The Fourth heritage grains are older and St. entrance is handicap-accessible. in many cases more adapt- For more information about the GM and about Coop CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 governance, please see the center of this issue.
Update on Location of IN THIS ISSUE June 26 CB6 Landmarks/Land Use Why Isn’t Anybody Listening to This Guy? ...... 3 Committee Meeting Puzzle ...... 4 Calendar of Events ...... 5 The meeting will be Coop Calendar, Governance Information, held at the YMCA on Mission Statement ...... 7 Ninth St. between Fifth Letters to the Editor ...... 8 and Sixth Aves. The Plow-to-Plate Movie Series Presents: Nothing Like Chocolate. . . 10 meeting will begin at Classifieds ...... 11 6:00 p.m. Exciting Workslot Opportunities ...... 12 Thank You ...... 12 14-06-26 pp1-12_Layout 1 6/25/14 2:31 PM Page 2
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Grains enriches the soil, prevents CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 soil depletion and helps to lessen the prevalence of able and resilient than the insects, disease and crop grains developed after the loss in all crops rotated, so-called “Green Revolution.” says Sorrells. That so-called revolution occurred in the 1960s, and History of the resulted in the hybridization Grain Renaissance of many grain crops for ease According to NOFA-NY’s in mass production. Robert Perry, the grain resur- Green revolution grains gence began about a decade were bred for specific traits, ago, when New York’s Green- such as shorter height to market began requiring bak- facilitate fertilizer use, ers to use 15% grains from aimed at enhancing mass the local region in their output. In contrast, ancient baked goods. “That started and heritage grains, most of the hunt for products. which are organic, still have Although Champlain Valley the genes that can adapt to Milling and Wild Hive Mill fluctuations in weather pat- began to grow local grains, terns and other risks to good many artisanal bakers seek- crop yield. ing to fulfill that quota lacked “When you grow different access to the necessary crops, they are attacked by grains. There was not a lot of
different insects, fungi and hard red or white wheat ILLUSTRATION BY LYNN BERNSTEIN bacteria, and when you grown in the region—for the rotate, that breaks up the new artisanal bread market,” ding grain resurgence. They cycle of diseases and insects Perry recalls. also offer an annual winter GRAINS: HEALTHY OR NOT? that attack just one crop. It conference, along with field reduces the problems,” Sor- “Using fresh flour days and workshops for For decades, grains have been considered a “healthy rells says. is similar to using farmers and others. Perry food,” by health-oriented people as well as the USDA fresh garlic or vegetables, estimates that there are food pyramid. Nearly 20 years ago, the USDA Food Regional Food Resilience currently 3,000 acres of Pyramid recommended six to 11 daily servings. But One of the prime goals of and more people are alternative small grains recently, the obesity epidemic has led researchers to expanding ancient and her- discovering that. grown in New York State. rethink the health up and down sides of widespread itage grain cultivation is to If you pick up a Most are either organic or grain consumption, especially of refined grain prod- assure food resilience in the loaf of bread—it makes a could be so certified if the ucts, including breads, crackers, pasta, pizza, cereals Northeast. Traditional crop difference whether it is from farmers elected to go and sweets. varieties developed over cen- China or the Hudson Valley. through the process. He is Recent research connects high glycemic foods with turies may withstand chang- pleased with this develop- weight gain—leading grains to fall from favor. With ing weather patterns and That is a food choice ment. “I can grow vegeta- current books like Grain Brain and Wheat Belly urging resist disease better than and if we want to be bles and sell them at the people to reduce their consumption of high carb newfangled hybrids. Accord- self-sufficient in this region, market in 30 to 60 days. processed foods, it may come as a surprise to find a ing to Russell, “Emmer is it’s important to Grain takes longer. These grain resurgence—here in New York State, and else- resilient and scrappy—it’s understand that.” are grains we haven’t grown where in the Northeast. But the distinctions between hardy.” Getting grains back —Robert Perry, in 75 years—so to bring processed grains and heritage or ancient grains makes into production is important them back entails a learn- all the difference. because “if we are going to NOFA-NY ing curve. It is not as easy have a decentralized food as putting seeds in the system we need to have Cornell, NOFA-NY and ground. There are new demonstrates equipment understand that.” grains.” the Greenmarket partnered kinds of challenges. But we new and old. “I take old “If it works here, it can Rotating ancient and her- to obtain a grant to develop are meeting them.” threshing tables, and show work elsewhere,” says June itage crops with first, veg- and research the grains and At the events NOFA-NY the process from the freshly Russell. “New York is the etables and then, legumes processes to help this bud- hosts, and others, Perry picked grain to the flour to place to leverage these the bread and pasta,” he things.” reports. “It always amazes me For Coop members wish- how many people don’t know ing to try traditional grains that those amber waves of for themselves, Receiving grain are what make up a loaf Coordinator, Ron Zisa of a bread.” reports that the Coop cur- rently offers spelt flour and Trying Ancient and berries, and emmer flour and Heritage Grains berries from Small Valley O To break the domination Milling, a Pennsylvania D SH ES of commodity crops—corn, based mill which sells organ- OE Please protect your feet and -T soy and conventional ic products. N toes while working your wheat—local grain growers This summer, the Coop E need help and part of that is will also begin carrying P building a market for them. oats from Maine Grains, a O shift at the Coop by not
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Park Slope Food Coop, Brooklyn, NY June 26, 2014 3 ‘Why Isn’t Anybody Listening to This Guy?’ Coop Members and the Biking Community Remember Steve Faust By Frank Haberle munity for decades. Because engineering standpoint how for an extension ongtime Park Slope resi- of his background as an a path could be built at very of the Coop Ldent, Coop member and engineer and transportation little cost. I comprehended entrance out onto bicycling enthusiast Steve planner his assessments only about a third of what the street. With Faust passed away in March, carried an authority that few he said, but it was impres- his city experi- following complications others could match, and no sive. I kept wondering, ‘why ence, Steve knew from leukemia. A longtime one had his attention to isn’t anybody listening to that the bureau- federal transportation plan- detail. He was involved in this guy?’” cracy involved in ner, Steve is remembered at virtually every major biking extending the the Coop for his contribu- advocacy campaign over the Bringing His Talent and entrance would tions to the popular bike past nearly half-century. His Skills to the Coop be formidable, valet service and for his research was instrumental At the Coop, Steve con- and he encour- help redeveloping the in the city’s decision to tributed his skills and talents aged the commit- Coop’s entrance and exit remove stairs from the in two key areas: the Exit and tee to focus its
systems from 2006-2008. Brooklyn Bridge, giving Entrance Committee work, energy on reorga- PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE FAUST FAMILY Citywide, Steve was known cyclists easy access to the during the Coop’s big expan- nizing the check- Steve Faust with his wife Linda. for his leadership in devel- crossing. He discovered that sion; and then to the Shop out stations. oping the Five Borough Bike the original bridge had had and Cycle Committee, where Steve’s technical skills the committee’s work. Steve Tour and his efforts to cre- no stairs, and he also he helped develop the bike came into play in develop- was passionate at meetings ate bike access across city demonstrated that bridges valet system. Steve’s wife ing the debit card system, and had so much to con- bridges. Steve is survived by scanners and other techni- tribute; it was sometimes his wife Linda, daughter cal components of the hard to keep up. At commit- Juliette, son Nathan and checkout stations. tee meetings he’d opine two grandchildren. Just as this work was about the bad old days of winding down, Linda saw cycling in the city. It was A Leader in the another Gazette ad, for mem- helpful to place our work New York City bers to join the Shop and within the context of the Biking Community Cycle Committee. “Steve work of cycling advocates Since the 1970’s, Steve—a helped with the planning who helped pave the way for Vietnam veteran and a grad- and created the procedures,” all cyclists in the city. In uate in Urban Planning from she remembers, “but he also addition to being the Shop Harvard—was an early helped assemble the racks, and Cycle ‘historian,’ Steve leader in efforts to make the set up the pipes and order was our committee’s engi- city safe and accessible for the tent.” Sarah Phillips, a neer, handyman and tinker- bicyclists. In 1977 Steve and Steve Faust was a tireless campaigner for the biking 10-year member of the Coop er. He custom designed and a group of friends worked movement. built some of the parts we with the American Youth use to run bike valet such as Hostel Association to must conform to the the brackets we use to store launch the Five Borough requirements of Americans the equipment when it’s not Bike Tour. Steve served on With Disabilities Act. He tes- in use.” former Mayor Ed Koch’s tified before the MTA As Ken remembers it, “I bicycling committee and numerous times on bicycle only knew Steve’s work at worked with Transportation access to trains. the Coop starting in 2008 Alternatives since 1992. He “Perhaps Steve’s greatest when he joined the Shop was particularly committed passion,” Ken continues, and Cycle committee. I’m to opening bridges to bicy- “and something that he did sure he had many contribu- cle and pedestrian traffic, a not live to see realized, was tions before that. Steve was goal he achieved with the the creation of a bike and a huge help and outstanding East River bridges but not pedestrian path on the Ver- resource in getting the with the Verrazano Bridge. razano-Narrows Bridge. His Building an effective Bike Valet program was a major focus Coop’s bike valet service off “One of Steve’s great accom- advocacy on that issue for Steve Faust. the ground. He retrofitted plishments was getting the the hardware to suit our city to make bridges accessi- and the chair of the Shop needs, and always had a cre- ble to bikes,” says Coop “Steve was a great resource to the cycling community for and Cycle Committee, ative idea for solving a prob- member Rod Morrison, a decades. Because of his background as an engineer and remembers when Steve first lem. As we struggled to staff longtime neighbor and fami- transportation planner his assessments carried an authority that got involved in the spring of up the shifts when bike valet ly friend. “Steve would go to few others could match, and no one had his attention to detail. 2008. “Back then it was an was first getting underway, City Hall with the original exploratory committee with Steve would readily volun- plans for the bridges, which He was involved in virtually every major biking advocacy the mission to promote teer to fill in—sometimes clearly outline bicycle campaign over the past nearly half-century.” bicycling as a sustainable pulling two shifts in succes- access, even though they —Kevin Coughlin mode of transportation and sion as squad leader. were altered later. Steve as a convenient way to shop. “When Steve focused on a fought for years to get these began when the bridge Linda, who joined the Coop The idea of a bike valet ser- problem he would investi- original plans reinstated.” opened in 1964 and Steve, when she retired from teach- vicing the Coop was floated gate all angles with great Ken Coughlin is a Coop still a teenager, took part in ing in 2003, remembers that by some members who thoroughness and come up member who knew Steve a demonstration protesting at first, Steve was reluctant wanted to see secure bicycle with a solution that often since the early ’90’s at Trans- the lack of a ped-bike path, to get involved. Then Linda parking in the Coop neigh- made use of his engineering portation Alternatives and which apparently had been spotted an advertisement in borhood. They formed an background. He looked at who served with him on the in the original designs but the Gazette, seeking members exploratory committee to things in ways few others Coop’s Shop and Cycle Com- which Robert Moses to join the Exit and Entrance research the issue and run a would or could. Steve always mittee. Ken remembers: “A dropped, allegedly to secure Committee, which was set bike valet trial. had time for any question, fellow advocate said at a lower insurance premium up to plan the flow of mem- “Working with Steve was project or request, and he Steve’s memorial service, ‘It for the Port Authority. bers into and out of the educational and fun,” Sarah did it all cheerfully, especial- would take many volumes “A few years ago,” Ken Coop. “I said to him, ‘You’re says. “He had a long-term ly if it presented an intellec- to document Steve’s biking adds, “I stood with Steve a city planner! This is some- institutional memory of the tual challenge for him. He advocacy.’ Steve was a great under the bridge as he thing you should be interest- Coop and the New York City was a sweetheart of a guy, a resource to the cycling com- explained to me from an ed in.’” Original plans called cycling scene that informed real mensch.” ■
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Imani House the emotional scars of rejec- and broader array of gut bac- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 tion. Some studies have also teria. According to Georgina linked obesity to poor acade- Hold, of the Institute of Med- ditioning that tells us eating mic performance. ical Sciences, Aberdeen Uni- at McDonald’s is fun and versity, the lack of a broad “chubby is cute”—a condi- Why a Walkathon? spectrum of bacteria in the tioning that puts kids, espe- While jogging can place a gut has been implicated in cially those in communities lot of strain on bones and many health conditions and of color, at greater risk for joints, particularly in obese in how well we harvest the Type 2 diabetes, heart dis- or heavy people, walking is nutrition and energy from the ease and cancer. considered by many to be the foods we do eat. A study reported this ideal exercise for those who Sister Bisi advises that we month in The New York Times are obese. It’s safe, it’s easy, should look closely at statis- has also shown a sharp (we all know how to walk), it’s tics citing a decline in obesity increase among adolescents good for the heart and blood among children. “Obesity is in a disease known as nonal- pressure and it’s relaxing. declining only among chil- coholic fatty liver. Damage dren between the ages of one from the disease, which caus- “We should look closely at and five,” she said. “Among es the liver to swell with fat, is statistics citing a decline in children 10 to 19, who are nearly identical to that obesity among children. under less parental control,
caused by alcoholism, only in it’s rising.” In fact, she added, PHOTOS BY ED LEVY this case the damage is done Obesity is declining only these older children often Imani House sponsored its second Walk-to-Live Walkathon by poor diet and excess among children between the turn away from healthier on Sunday, June 22, when adults and children came togeth- weight. Fatty liver is particu- ages of one and five. school menus in favor of the er in Prospect Park to walk off extra calories, develop the larly widespread among His- Among children 10 to 19, cheap calories of fast foods. habit of exercise and learn about healthier eating. panics, many of whom carry a who are under less parental The lure of many fast-food variant of a gene, that drives control, it’s rising.” restaurants starts with mar- contributed to their decision the liver to aggressively pro- keting that builds associa- to emigrate. Born and raised duce and store triglycerides, a —Sister Bisi Iderabdullah, tions in kids’ minds in Brooklyn, Sister Bisi had type of fat, the Times reported. founder of Imani House beginning when children are been an activist and commu- Overall, the number of very young, associating nity organizer most of her obese children in communi- Walking reduces body French fries and super sodas life, and as new arrivals in ties of color has skyrocketed, weight not only by burning with indoor play places, jun- Liberia, she and her husband and now affects one out of calories but by reducing gle gyms and slides. “The created a nonprofit with the five children, Sister Bisi told stress as well—if you have message,” she said, “is that intention of starting a the Gazette. The condition is a too much stress, you eat food outings, even when the school, a health and educa- double-edge sword, she more. No special equipment food consists of largely empty tion program for women, and noted. On the one hand, the or training is required. All you calories, are fun. The annual a farm project. Instead, soon health is affected; on the need for walking are the moti- Walk-to-Live Walkathon is after their arrival, they found other, obese children are vation and a good pair of intended to break those pat- themselves in the midst of a often bullied, isolated and shoes. The Walk-to-Live terns, to show that walking, violent civil war. Sister Bisi marginalized by other chil- walkathon can provide the bonding, fresh air and volunteered in a hospital dren. As a result, they end up first, and possibly even the healthy nutrition can be even ward for wounded and aban- dealing not only with the second. And exercise can do more fun.” doned children and eventu- serious and long-lasting more than burn off calories. It The link between fast food ally created a safe house for health issues, but also with can also ensure a healthier restaurants and obesity is over 40 children, naming the also based on hard data program after her daughter, showing that the trends in Imani. Imani House Liberia eating away from home in today provides health ser- Sudoku the United States parallel vices and health education trends in obesity. That is, the to over 17,000 women and Sudoku is a puzzle. You are presented with a 9x9 grid of more we tend to eat out as a children each year. squares, and that grid is divided into 3x3 zones. nation, the fatter we have In 1997, Sister Bisi returned You solve the puzzle by filling the empty squares with become, and fast food out- to Brooklyn, and out of this single-digit numbers so that every zone, column and row lets have been by far the experience, and her observa- uses each of the numbers from 1 to 9. most rapidly expanding sec- tion that families living in tor of the U.S. food distribu- poverty in America were facing tion system. Foods typically many of the same challenges sold at these restaurants, as those in Liberia, was born burgers, soda and fries, are Imani House Brooklyn. statistically associated with higher body weight and are Free Summer Day Camp inexpensive. Imani House Brooklyn pro- The Walkathon is looking vides free after-school youth forward to an even bigger programs that engage chil- turnout next June. dren in performing arts, ath- letics, academic support and the Hanson Place Church, as Origins of Imani House social and emotional devel- well as information and refer- Sister Bisi started Imani opment. This summer it will ral services from its office on House when she, her hus- again provide seven weeks of Fifth Avenue. band and five children emi- free day camp for 120 inner- A 501(c)(3) nonprofit orga- grated to Liberia, West city children ages five to 12. nization Imani House, has Africa, in 1985, as they Instead of being babysat by won a number of awards for attempted to leave behind the TV, campers will be mak- the excellence of its pro- what she felt were limited ing friends, going on trips, grams in both Brooklyn and possibilities for children of taking dance, music and art Liberia. To learn more, to color in the U.S. The tragic classes, exploring the world donate or to volunteer, visit death of their daughter around them and getting www.imanihouse.org, Imani, in South Carolina, tutored. Imani House Brook- WWW.IHIWALKTOLIVE.COM, Puzzle author:author: JaJamesmes Vasile. ForFor answers, seesee pagepage 11.xx. which Sister Bisi attributes lyn also offers free adult liter- write to [email protected], to racism and classism, also acy/ESOL and GED classes at or call 718-538–2059. ■
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An Update About jun 27 Cheese Class jul 11 fri 7 pm fri 6:30 pm Fast Track Legislation We invite Coop members to learn more about the wonderful cheeses the Coop An update about ‘Fast Track’ for ‘Free Trade’ legislation in Congress with a focus on has to offer. This event will be limited to 30 people on a first-come, first-seated how passing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would affect internet access. IT heads basis. It will be like musical chairs—come and claim your seat—there should be take note. We will also discuss the proposal to form a Coop Fair Trade Committee that room for you. Guest speaker Michelle Loayza began her career in cheese behind would offer work-slot credit to continue this campaign. Bring questions, concerns and the counters of Murray’s in the West Village, while completing an M.A. in Food suggestions to this informative and stimulating session. Susan Metz is presenting on Studies at NYU. She now works for Forever Cheese, an importer of specialty behalf of the Coop Fair Trade Group. A member since 1980, she was a Shopping Squad foods and cheeses from Italy, Spain, Portugal and Croatia, and enjoys writing Leader for 22 years before retiring. Her letters appear regularly in the Coop's about food (cheese included) on the side. This workshop is brought to you by Linewaiters' Gazette and other prestigious publications. Coop member Aaron Kirtz, who has worked in the cheese industry since 2003, and sells cheese to the Coop via Forever Cheese.
jul 29 PSFC JUL General Meeting jun 29 tue 7 pm Compassion & Vitality Meeting Agenda to be announced. For information on how to sun 12 pm place an item on the Agenda, please see the center pages of Bringing the Alexander Technique to chronic pain. Pain can make us feel helpless, the Linewaiters’ Gazette. The Agenda Committee minutes and frustrated, and less of the person that we’d like to be. Physically, pain tends to also the status of pending agenda items are available in the Coop have a shrinking effect: we tighten our muscles around the discomfort and stiffen office. Meeting location: MS 51, 350 Fifth Ave., between Fourth and Fifth Sts. Enter our bodies to either numb or protect against further injury. In this workshop, you on Fourth St. cul-de-sac. Fourth St. entrance is handicap-accessible. will be introduced to a set of skills to respond differently to pain, so that it can become a wake-up call to expand and grow rather than retreat and shrink. The Alexander Technique is a century-old method for improving one’s mind-body coordi- nation, balance, and well-being. Coop member Dan Cayer is a nationally certified aug 5 Alexander Technique teacher working in the field of pain, injury, and stress. His per- tue 8 pm Agenda Committee Meeting sonal experience with the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of pain, inspired The Committee reviews pending agenda items and creates the him to help others. agenda for this month’s General Meeting. Drop by and talk with committee members face-to-face between 8:00 and 8:15 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 next jul 1 General Meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 26, 7 p.m., at MS 51, 350 Fifth Ave., tue 8 pm Agenda Committee Meeting between Fourth and Fifth Sts. The Committee reviews pending agenda items and creates the
agenda for this month’s General Meeting. Drop by and talk with committee members face-to-face between 8:00 and 8:15 p.m. Before submitting an item, read “How to Develop an Agenda aug 26 Item for the General Meeting” and fill out the General Meeting Agenda Item Submission tue 7 pm PSFC AUG General Meeting Form, both available from the Membership Office or at foodcoop.com. The next General Meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 29, 7 p.m., at MS 51, 350 Fifth Ave., Meeting Agenda to be announced. For information on how to between Fourth and Fifth Sts. 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. Meeting location: MS 51, 350 Fifth Ave., between Fourth and Fifth Sts. Enter on Fourth St. cul-de-sac. Fourth St. entrance is handicap-accessible. jul 8 Safe Food Committee Film Night: tue 7 pm Nothing Like Chocolate Deep in the rain forests of Grenada, anarchist chocolatier sep 2 Mott Green seeks solutions to the problems of a ravaged tue 8 pm Agenda Committee Meeting global chocolate industry. Solar power, employee share- The Committee reviews pending agenda items and creates the holding and small-scale antique equipment turn out deli- cious chocolate in the hamlet of Hermitage, Grenada. agenda for this month’s General Meeting. Drop by and talk with Finding hope in an industry entrenched in enslaved child labor, irresponsible committee members face-to-face between 8:00 and 8:15 p.m. corporate greed, and tasteless, synthetic products, Nothing like Chocolate Before submitting an item, read “How to Develop an Agenda reveals the compelling story of the relentless Green, founder of the Grenada Item for the General Meeting” and fill out the General Meeting Agenda Item Submission Chocolate Company. Nothing Like Chocolate traces the continued growth of Form, both available from the Membership Office or at foodcoop.com. The next Mott’s co-operative, exposing the practices and politics of how chocolate has General Meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 30, 7 p.m., at MS 51, 350 Fifth moved worldwide from a sacred plant to corporate blasphemy. Ave., between Fourth and Fifth Sts.
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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WELCOME!
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. Jeanette Abbink Andrea Bowen Zachary Dionne Robert Green Sana Kadri Terrance Marryshow Gerry O’Leary James Quadri Mike Abbink Francesca Bracaglia Kathleen Donnelly Falcon Griffith Jaweed Kaleem Jenny McCoy Dorit Oitzinger- Gabrielle Radeka Emilie Abrams Jocelyn Brooks Smerd Jessica Duda Shermel Gumbs Amrita Kapur Maria McFarland Wieser Reed Reeder Laurie Adams Julie Brown Rebecca Dunnan Robert Gurbo Chana Kavka Joseph McMahon Aiya Ono Whitney Reeder Emin Allen Tetina Bunche Christine Dwyer Victor Gurbo Jeremy Kittel James Michael Elizabeth Orne Sofia Regan Shemsut Amen David Canose Amy Ercolani Dylan Halom Rachel Krantz McTwigan Alice Oshima Willene Registre Amani Ansari Nicole Cattell Avi Fischer Elizabeth Hart Eugenia Krechmer Gareth Miles Daniel Oshima Courtney Rice Carlos Arteaga Nicholas Chua Eric Friedman Cecele Hartman Hannah Lazarus Sophie Miles Frank Oudeman Nica Ross Danielle Ash Alison Corwin Kim Gittleson Marissa Havers Jennifer Lee Dan Millman Irene Pedruelo Tapia Alisa Rotenberg Andrew Baron Neil Creveling Jay Glazer Clare E. Henrie Yoon Joo Lee Joy Millman Lesley Peller Emily Rubenstein Eric Barstad Steven Cruz Amy Globus Hazen Henry Tim Leong Brendan Mockler Matthew Peller Simone Rutkowitz Lucy Baumrind Isabelle D’Ursel Brenda Goldstein Michael Iadarola Christopher Lin Alex Moskowitz Margrit Pittman- Allison Samuels Matthew Bennett Shoshana Dentz Jonathan Goldstein Danish Iqbal Corrina MacKoul Melissa Moskowitz Polletta Katy Samwell Brian Bergeron Autumn Digatano- Jefferson Grant Tristan Jean Celia Manley Jerandy Moyet Anthony Polanco Natalie Sanchez Raj Bond Fedoruk Ames Gravert Blake Jung Kris Manzur Sandy Myers Monique Powell Amy Sandgrund CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
All About the COOP CALENDAR General Meeting Our Governing Structure New Member Orientations General Meeting Info From our inception in 1973 to the present, the open Attending an Orientation is the first step toward TUE, JULY 1 Coop membership. Pre-registration is required for monthly General Meetings have been at the center of the AGENDA SUBMISSIONS: 8:00 p.m. all of the three weekly New Member Orientations. Coop’s decision-making process. Since the Coop incor- To pre-register, visit foodcoop.com or contact the Submissions will be considered for the July 29 porated in 1977, we have been legally required to have a Membership Office. Visit in person or call 718-622- General Meeting. Board of Directors. The Coop continued the tradition of 0560 during office hours. General Meetings by requiring the Board to have open Have questions about Orientation? Please visit TUE, JULY 29 meetings and to receive the advice of the members at www.foodcoop.com and look at the “Join the Coop” GENERAL MEETING: 7:00 p.m. General Meetings. The Board of Directors, which is page for answers to frequently asked questions. required to act legally and responsibly, has approved almost every General Meeting decision at the end of The Coop on the Internet Gazette Deadlines every General Meeting. Board members are elected at www.foodcoop.com LETTERS & VOLUNTARY ARTICLES: the Annual Meeting in June. Copies of the Coop’s bylaws July 10 issue: 12:00 p.m., Mon, June 30 are available at the Coop Community Corner and at The Coop on Cable TV July 24 issue: 12:00 p.m., Mon, July 14 Inside the Park Slope Food Coop every General Meeting. FRIDAYS 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Channels: 56 (Time- Warner), 69 (CableVision), 84 (RCN), 44 (Verizon), CLASSIFIED ADS DEADLINE: Next Meeting: Tuesday, and live streaming on the Web: www.bricartsmedia.org/ July 10 issue: 7:00 p.m., Wed, July 2 community-media/bcat-tv-network. July 24 issue: 7:00 p.m., Wed, July 16 July 29, 7:00 p.m. The General Meeting is held on the last Tuesday of each month. Attend a GM Park Slope Food Coop Location and Receive Work Credit Mission Statement MS 51, 350 Fifth Ave., between Fourth and Fifth Sts. Since the Coop’s inception in 1973, the General The Park Slope Food Coop is a mem- Enter on Fourth St. cul-de-sac. Fourth St. entrance is Meeting has been our decision-making body. At the ber-owned and operated food store—an handicap-accessible. General Meeting (GM) members gather to make alternative to commercial profit-oriented decisions and set Coop policy. The General-Meeting-for- business. As members, we contribute our How to Place an Item workslot-credit program was created to increase labor: working together builds trust participation in the Coop’s decision-making process. through cooperation and teamwork and Following is an outline of the program. For full details, see on the Agenda the instruction sheets by the sign-up board. enables us to keep prices as low as possi- If you have something you’d like discussed at a General ble within the context of our values and Meeting, please complete a submission form for the • Advance Sign-up required: To be eligible for workslot credit, you must add your principles. Only members may shop, and Agenda Committee. Forms are available in the rack near name to the sign-up sheet in the elevator lobby. The sign- we share responsibilities and benefits the Coop Community Corner bulletin board and at ups sheet is available all month long, except for the day of equally. We strive to be a responsible and General Meetings. Instructions and helpful information the meeting when you have until 5 p.m. to sign up. On the ethical employer and neighbor. We are a on how to submit an item appear on the submission day of the meeting, the sign-up sheet is kept in the buying agent for our members and not a form. The Agenda Committee meets on the first Tuesday Membership Office. selling agent for any industry. We are a part of each month to plan the agenda for the GM held on the Some restrictions to this program do apply. Please see last Tuesday of the month. If you have a question, please below for details. of and support the cooperative movement. We offer a diversity of products with an call Ann Herpel at the coop. • Two GM attendance credits per year: Each member may take advantage of the GM-for- emphasis on organic, minimally pro- workslot-credit program two times per calendar year. cessed and healthful foods. We seek to Meeting Format • Certain Squads not eligible: avoid products that depend on the Warm Up (7:00 p.m.) • Meet the Coordinators Eligible: Shopping, Receiving/Stocking, Food exploitation of others. We support non- • Enjoy some Coop snacks • Submit Open Forum items toxic, sustainable agriculture. We respect Processing, Office, Maintenance, Inventory, Construction, • Explore meeting literature and FTOP committees. (Some Committees are omitted the environment. We strive to reduce the because covering absent members is too difficult.) Open Forum (7:15 p.m.) Open Forum is a time for impact of our lifestyles on the world we members to bring brief items to the General Meeting. If • Attend the entire GM: share with other species and future genera- an item is more than brief, it can be submitted to the In order to earn workslot credit you must be present tions. We prefer to buy from local, earth- for the entire meeting. Agenda Committee as an item for a future GM. friendly producers. We recycle. We try to • Financial Report • Coordinators’ • Signing in at the Meeting: Reports (7:30 p.m.) lead by example, educating ourselves and Report • Committee Reports 1. After the meeting the Chair will provide the others about health and nutrition, coopera- Workslot Credit Attendance Sheet. Agenda (8:00 p.m.) 2.Please also sign in the attendance book that is tion and the environment. We are com- The agenda is posted at the Coop Community Corner passed around during the meeting. mitted to diversity and equality. We and may also appear elsewhere in this issue. oppose discrimination in any form. We • Being Absent from the GM: Wrap Up (9:30-9:45) (unless there is a vote to extend strive to make the Coop welcoming and It is possible to cancel without penalty. We do ask that the meeting) • Meeting evaluation • Board of Directors you remove your name if you know cannot attend. Please accessible to all and to respect the opin- vote • Announcements, etc. do not call the Membership Office with GM cancellations. ions, needs and concerns of every member.
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COURTESY, PLEASE out of the way. of-no-curbs ones) sitting walk you and your groceries REVISIT THE This is a particularly egre- abandoned on the sidewalk to your vehicle, but rules RETIREMENT TO THE EDITOR: gious—but by no means iso- on Seventh Avenue, about apply for everybody; if you’re POLICY When does “excuse me” lated—example of bad halfway between Union and shopping in the middle of the mean “get the f**k out of my manners that saying, “excuse Berkeley. I waited a few min- day, you probably have time, way”? me” fails to justify. Could we utes, thinking maybe the and your car is already EDITOR: The other morning, as fre- all please shop with a little walker had gone to Roma’s parked anyway. If you want A country and/or Coop can quently happens, the Coop patience and consideration, for a delicious slice of pizza (I your stuff delivered right to be judged how it treats its aisles were packed with reserving “excuse me” for would totally understand, your door, there is Fresh young and old. The scorecard shoppers and with workers when we make a mistake, since their margarita pie is to Direct; otherwise, don’t be an for the young is a B+; for the restocking shelves. As I wait- rather than when we want to die for), but to no avail. I tried entitled yuppie, don’t give old it’s an “F.” ed on the side of an aisle for push someone out of our to call the Coop office so that the neighborhood a bad rep- Using the excuse of a labor another shopper ahead of me way? Those who think they maybe someone would come utation, and bring back the shortage to keep everyone to reach for something on the are entitled to do otherwise pick it up, but the line was freakin’ cart. working till they drop was lowest shelf, I heard some- should find their way to the busy (maybe we could ask for Benedicte Charpentier reminiscent of corporate one behind me demand, wide aisles of Whole Foods. a few more phone lines next bosses and not empathetic, “excuse me.” It was a woman Carol Messineo Festivus), so finally I brought nice Coop leadership. with a large cart plowing her it back myself and told the The Coop coordinators way through the aisle. When I BRING BACK YOUR coordinator in charge about need to regroup and come asked her to wait while the it. Yay to me, I guess. up with a more humane woman ahead of us bent CART My fellow members, I solution to present to the down for her item, she understand that in our busy membership. replied, “All the other aisles MEMBERS: lives, it might be a pain to Frank Goldsmith are jammed,” and proceeded The other day on my way have to wait for somebody to to push her way through, from the Coop with my box of while the other shopper, groceries, I found a cart (one LETTERS POLICY looking startled, squeezed of the big, heavy, I’m-afraid- We welcome letters from members. Submission deadlines Fairness appear in the Coop Calendar. All letters will be printed if In order to provide fair, comprehensive, factual coverage: they conform to the published guidelines. We will not 1. The Gazette will not publish hearsay—that is, allega- VALET BIKE PARKING knowingly publish articles which are racist, sexist or other- tions not based on the author's first-hand observation. wise discriminatory 2. Nor will we publish accusations that are not specific IS HERE ON The maximum length for letters is 500 words. Letters or are not substantiated by factual assertions. must include your name and phone number and be typed 3. Copies of submissions that make substantive accu- SATURDAYS & or very legibly handwritten. Editors will reject letters that sations against specific individuals will be given to those are illegible or too long. persons to enable them to write a response, and both sub- SUNDAYS! You may submit on paper, typed or very legibly hand- missions and response will be published simultaneously. written, or via email to [email protected] or This means that the original submission may not appear on disk. until the issue after the one for which it was submitted. The above applies to both articles and letters. The only Anonymity exceptions will be articles by Gazette reporters which will Unattributed letters will not be published unless the be required to include the response within the article itself. Every Saturday, Gazette knows the identity of the writer, and therefore must April 5–November 22, be signed when submitted (giving phone number). Such Respect letters will be published only where a reason is given to the Letters must not be personally derogatory or insult- 1:00–5:15 p.m. editor as to why public identification of the writer would ing, even when strongly criticizing an individual mem- and impose an unfair burden of embarrassment or difficulty. ber's actions. Letter writers must refer to other people Such letters must relate to Coop issues and avoid any non- with respect, refrain from calling someone by a nickname Every Sunday, constructive, non-cooperative language. that the person never uses himself or herself, and refrain from comparing other people to odious figures like Hitler April 6–November 23, or Idi Amin. 3:30–7:45 p.m. Coop members can leave their bikes with our valet parking service, which is like Do you want your old Coop a coat check for bikes. Working members will check in and watch your bike for you. attendance records? Just drop off your bike, stroller, scooter or personal cart, do your shopping or your shift, Up until September 2009, the Coop kept and hop back on. attendance on index cards. No locks, no worries, no theft. Service operates rain or shine. If you were a Coop member before then, Look for us in front of the yellow wall. we may still have your old partial or Note: no bike check-in on complete cards. Saturdays after 5 p.m. or If you would like to have this as a souvenir, Sundays after 7:30 p.m. please come to the Membership Office and
Valet bicycle parking at the Coop ask for it. If we have it, it's yours! is brought to you by the PSFC Shop & Cycle Committee. We will be recycling them shortly.
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BDS TOPICS: EU COMMISSION AND West to reconsider its policies and tactics. It ments have shirked their responsibil- INTERNATIONAL is time for this camp to listen to the authentic ities; the Wall has expanded with voices of the Palestinians—those that are impunity. Seventy percent complet- CELEBRITIES IGNORE DIVESTMENTS FROM shouting day and night that the Palestini- ed already, when finished the Wall BDS AND SUPPORT ans want good leaders and an end to law- will stretch 800 kilometers and will G4S CORPORATION ISRAELI BUSINESS lessness, anarchy and financial corruption.” enable the de facto annexation of 46 FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PSFC founding principles cannot percent of the West Bank. In the face VIOLATIONS IN ISRAELI MEMBERS: support boycott movements that of official inaction, 30 Palestinian PRISONS Having probably heard about BDS demonize and lie about one side yet coalitions and organizations, by now, business continues apace for do nothing for the people they claim including US Campaign to End the TO THE EDITORS AND international investors, research, to represent. BDS is only one exam- Israeli Occupation (a national coali- MEMBERS: and celebrities in Israel. ple of how such movements destroy tion of 400 groups), recently issued Prime Minister Benjamin political inclusiveness through will- a call for ordinary people around the Recently the campaign for divest- Netanyahu and European Commis- ful tactics of division and blame. world to mark ten years since the ICJ ment from corporations that profit sion President Jose Manuel Bar- Therefore we should codify a mini- ruling by making July the month of from the Israeli persecution of Pales- roso attended the ceremony in mum 80% GM vote policy to enact offi- action against the Apartheid Wall. tinians achieved two important suc- Jerusalem where EU Ambassador to cial boycotts, and dispense with the Using this opportunity to raise cesses. On June 7, 2014, the Bill Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen and unofficial 51% suggestion. awareness about the Wall, start or and Melinda Gates Foundation Israel’s Science, Technology and It’s time to change the conversa- strengthen boycott, divestment and announced its total divestment from Space Minister Yaakov Peri signed tion. Finally. sanctions (BDS) campaign focused the British “security” corporation the Horizon 2020 deal. Horizon 2020 Jesse Rosenfeld on companies involved in the con- G4S. And on June 12, the United is one of the largest scientific and struction of the Wall (Elbit, G4S), Methodist Church General Board of industrial cooperation programs in ‘JULY 2014: TAKE ACTION and pressure governments to live up Pension and Health Benefits also the world with nearly €80 billion to their obligations outlined in the decided to divest from G4S. ($109 billion) available in funding AGAINST THE ICJ decision. The effects of the Wall According to a June 10 article in and grants for research and develop- APARTHEID WALL:’ A in Palestine have been devastating: MondoWeiss by the Northwest Region- ment. (TOIsrael) PALESTINIAN cutting people off from their fami- al BDS Coalition, “G4S has a contract will.i.am The founding member GRASSROOTS lies, employment, farms, education with the Israel Prison Services to and rapper of The Black Eyed Peas and medical care; robbing Palestini- install and run security and manage- recently went to Israel to introduce CAMPAIGN AGAINST ans of their land and resources. ment systems at six prisons where his latest smartwatch to a group of ISRAEL’S WALL IN THE (Jamal Juma) Palestinian political prisoners, Israeli startups and angel investors. WEST BANK The Wall: Construction started including children, are routinely sub- While in Israel, will.i.am (William 2002: concrete walls (height: twice ject to torture.” It is corporations like Adams) also expressed interest in MEMBERS: Berlin Wall), fences, ditches, razor G4S that participate in and profit investing in several Israeli startups Background: On July 9, 2014, it wire, an electronic monitoring sys- from the oppression of Palestinian including Tonara, an interactive will be a decade since the Interna- tem, patrol roads, and a buffer zone. people. sheet music app and Wishi, a crowd- tional Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an 85% of the Wall cuts into the West Others include Israeli banks that styling fashion app. The rapper also advisory opinion: Legal Consequences of Bank. Illegal settlements built provide loans to build illegal West visited other up-and-coming star- the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied behind the Wall are the single most Bank settlements and that unfairly tups like Guster and Fashioholic. Palestinian Territory. Summary: (A) Con- important factor behind the devia- restrict investment for Palestinian Jay-Z. Hip-hop legend and Gram- struction of the Wall being build by tion of the route from the 1949 West Bank enterprises. Hewlett my winner Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) is a Israel, the occupying Power, in the Armistice (“Green”) Line. With 34 for- Packard provides equipment for prominent investor and spokesman Occupied Palestinian Territory, tified checkpoints, 634 military Israeli surveillance and control of the for Duracell PowerMat, an Israeli including in and around East checkpoints, 1,661 km settler roads Occupied Palestinian Territories. company that specializes in wireless Jerusalem, and its associated regime complementing the Wall System, Companies like Combined Systems charging for electronic devices. “I (gates, permits), are contrary to inter- Israel imprisons Palestinians into Incorporated (CSI) sell the Israeli believe in the future of wireless ener- national law; (B) Israel is obligated to ghettoes: Northern Ghetto (Jenin to military “non-lethal” weapons for gy and I believe that Duracell Power- terminate its breaches of internation- Qalqiliya), Central Ghetto (Salfit), suppressing protests against the mat is the company to bring on the al law, to cease construction of the Jerusalem, Southern Ghetto (Bethle- occupation. Motorola Corporation revolution,” the entertainer said in a Wall, dismantle structure, repeal leg- hem, Hebron), Jordan Valley, Gaza equips the Israeli army with encrypt- company press release. islation relating to Wall; (C) Israel is Strip. (stopthewall.org) ed cellphones. The French corpora- Ellen Degeneres. Emmy award- obligated to make reparations for Crime of Apartheid: Systemic poli- tion Veolia provides, among other winning talk show host Ellen damage caused by the construction cies by a regime to dominate/sup- services, bus lines between Degeneres wasn’t about to miss out of Wall in the Occupied Palestinian press one racial group over another Jerusalem and the illegal West Bank on the bubbly craze, holding a give- Territory, including in and around … ‘Action to Stop Apartheid Wall:’ settlements. See the website who- away of SodaStream machines on East Jerusalem; (D) All States obligat- icjl0.stopthewall.org, #Stop Impunity. profits.org for more information. her daily talk show. ed not to recognize the illegal Wall, Mary Buchwald The campaign for the liberation of Michael J. Fox Michael J. Fox not to render aid or assistance in BrooklynForPeace.org Palestine continues in multiple local, Foundation for Parkinson’s Research maintaining the situation created by PSFC members for BDS national and international efforts for awarded more than $1 million in the Wall, and to ensure compliance www.psfcbds.wordpress.com Boycott Divestment and Sanctions. grants to two Israeli companies—Cell by Israel with inter- You can be part of these efforts by Cure Neurosciences and Proneuron national humanitari- boycotting Hewlett Packard and Biotechnologies—to support their an law; (E) The What Is That? How Do I Use It? Motorola products. ongoing research to find viable treat- United Nations, And you can stop buying Ahava ments for Parkinson’s. especially the Gener- cosmetics and the Sodastream water As Palestinian journalist Khaled al Assembly and Ask Me Questions carbonation system. These manufac- Abu Toameh says: Security Council, to turers profit from exploitation of “In recent years there has been a signifi- consider further About Coop Foods Palestinian land, labor and natural cant rise in the number of non-Palestinians action required to resources. who describe themselves as “pro-Palestinian” end the illegal situa- Every Monday, 12 to 2:45 p.m. Please see our website psfcbds. activists. In their view, inciting against Israel tion resulting from wordpress.com for more information. on a university campus or publishing “anti- the construction of You can join in any time during a Naomi Brussel Zionist” material on the Internet is sufficient the Wall. question-and-answer session Park Slope Food Coop Members for to earn them the title of “pro-Palestinian”. It Ten years after on the shopping floor. Boycott Divestment and Sanctions is time for the “pro-Palestinian” camp in the ICJ: Powerful govern- Look for tour leaders in produce aisle.
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SAFE FOOD COMMITTEE REPORT Plow-to-Plate Movie Series Presents: Nothing Like Chocolate By Adam Rabiner met some anarchist squatters becomes chocolate. It takes $2.00 per dry pound, a full ilms for Foodies tend to fall and became an activist with a Mott three days to make his $.70 more than the $1.30 Finto certain categories. radical approach to alleviat- small batches of chocolate offered by the government’s There are films that lavish ing suffering. He electrified from scratch. Grenada Cacao Association. aesthetic, cinematographic, the squatters’ abandoned Clearly, for Mott, and the The company, whose slo- appreciation which leave you houses, installed solar-pow- other chocolatiers featured in gan is “tree to bar,” is one of hungry such as Jiro Dreams of ered hot-water showers, con- this film, chocolate is a food the only small-scale chocolate Sushi. Others screened in this verted a Volkswagen bus to not a candy. Their artisanal makers producing chocolate series use food as a launch- run on electricity and worked chocolate is pure, unlike where the cocoa grows, and it ing point to tell a larger story. in several soup kitchens. In mass-produced commercial performs every activity Black Gold is not so much the mid-1990s Green moved products adulterated with involved in production, from was electrocuted while work- about coffee as it is about fair to Grenada where he founded palm butter. They revere this planting and growing cocoa ing on some solar-powered trade. Bananas! deals with the the Grenada Chocolate Com- food, as did the indigenous trees to drying the cocoa machinery. He was 47. exploitation of Nicaraguan pany in 1999. peoples who used the cacao beans in the sun and ferment- The Grenada Chocolate banana farmers exposed by a The camera crew tags bean as currency to trade ing them. Mott created unique Company continues with the U.S. multi-national to along with Mott as he speaks with the Spanish conquerors. processing methods, designed help of Mott’s mother and banned toxic herbicides and honestly of his life on the and maintained his own solar- business partners. The docu- Asparagus! dwells on the island, weighing the loneli- Food Justice/Fair Trade electric powered machines, mentary’s director, Kum-Kum plight of the small town ness he feels as a single man and the Grenada refurbished antique equip- Bhavnani, will join the post- American farmer. Beer Wars is against the freedom he Chocolate Factory ment and even packaged the screening discussion from less about beer and more enjoys to work around the One of the reasons Mott finished product. Mott London via Skype and Joe about the warlike, cutthroat clock on his business and fol- began the Grenada Chocolate shipped the chocolate bars to Angello, a business partner nature of the beer industry low his passions. Factory, the only chocolate- other Caribbean islands on a and distributor of the product and King Corn is not about making company in a cocoa- 13 foot Hobie Cat and to in the U.S., will be here in corn on the cob but about the Chocolate producing country, was his Europe on the Tres Hombres person. Mr. Angelo worked pervasiveness of corn syrup Mott’s great passion for abhorrence of a decades-long wind powered sailboat and closely with Mott and will be and other corn derivatives in chocolate developed, in part, problem endemic to industri- delivered them to their final able to give personal insight our food system and our very out of his enjoyment for coco al chocolate production, destinations using volunteer into Mott’s accomplishments bodies. Juliette of the Herbs was tea, a mild stimulant. Before forced child slavery in West bicyclists in the Nether- and philosophy of non-com- a loving biography of a fasci- starting the business, he Africa, particularly the Ivory lands. In 2011 the company placency. Nothing Like Chocolate nating, nomadic woman who knew nothing about choco- Coast. He felt this social prob- was recognized by the State is a great film about a special devoted her life to under- late, but he learned. Leading lem had its roots in the global Department for promoting man. Knowing that Mott standing and using the pow- a tour of the factory, Mott scale of production which sustainable economic devel- Green is no longer making ers of plants to heal. explains to some children keeps cocoa production sepa- opment and outstanding the world a better place is, What is remarkable about that the phrase, “like water rate from chocolate making environmental conservation. indeed, bittersweet. ■ Nothing Like Chocolate is that it for chocolate” is a misnomer and divides consumers from In researching Nothing Like is at once a story about a per- because water and chocolate producers. Unlike wine whose Chocolate, after watching the Nothing Like Chocolate will son, a business, and choco- don’t mix. In fact, in drying, origin is specified, the cacao movie, I was shocked and sad- show on Tuesday, July 8, 7 p.m. late while it also addresses fermenting, and roasting beans that go into a mass pro- dened to learn that Mott Green Park Slope Food Coop, 782 Union the larger issues of fair trade cacao beans, the very point is duced candy bar can come died on June 1, 2013, just a year St., 2nd floor. Free and open to the and food justice. The film to get most of the moisture from anywhere. after the film was made. He public. Refreshments will be served. works on all these levels. out. The cacao nib, or center, Mott, a kind of radical is 50% fat and 50% solid. Willy Wonka, wanted to pro- Mott Green Grinding the nib is very simi- duce chocolate in the oppo- EXPERIENCED REPORTERS The heart of the film is lar to making peanut butter site way—locally, organically, Mott Green, born David and results in a rich, thick, sustainably, ethically, and as Friedman. Green grew up in delicious looking (but actual- an Organic Cocoa Farmers’ Please Apply New York, the child of two ly very bitter) dark brown and Chocolate-Makers’ Coop- intellectuals, and dropped paste known as chocolate erative proudly paying cocoa Workslot Description out of college in 1988 just shy liquor that when sweetened, farmers the highest price in We have four distinct Linewaiters’ of graduation. That year he molded, and hardened the world for the beans at Gazette teams—each producing an issue every eight weeks. You will develop and produce an article about Looking to help new coops form in Brooklyn the Coop in cooperation with your team’s editor every eight weeks.
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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.
Melichior Scholler AnnMarie Sykes Anna Wako Minette Yao Sam Seder Toccarra Thomas Linda Wenger Rebecca Youngerman Assaf Sela Lisa Uhlig Elara Willett Michelle Yu Aleksandra Sevruk Lesley Unruh Beverly Williams Faith Zeitlin Courtney Sheets Gabriela Vazquez Patrick Williams Catherine Zhou Jeremy Smerd Louise Voccoli Christopher Wladyka Shuli Zilberfarb Sela Thomas Stubbs Rebecca Volinsky LaVoya Woods- Dionne Rachel Swaby Jarrett Waite Sherry Xuan Yang
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✮✮✮✮✮EXCITING WORKSLOT OPPORTUNITIES ✮✮✮✮✮ Office Set-up Office Data Entry a plus. This is an evening job with some flexibili- Monday-Wednesday, 6 to 8:30 a.m. Saturday, 3:30 to 6:15 p.m. ty in start time. Requires a six-month commit- ment, complete dependability in attendance, Need an early riser with lots of energy to do Must have been a member for at least one year and great accuracy. You will be trained on your a variety of physical tasks including: setting with excellent attendance. Are you a stickler for first shift. Contact Kathy Hieatt, Bookkeeping up tables and chairs, buying food and sup- details and accurate on the computer? Do you Coordinator, Monday-Friday, 9-5. plies, labeling and putting away food and like working independently? If this sounds like supplies, recycling, washing dishes and mak- you, then Office Data Entry will be your perfect General Meeting Set-Up ing coffee. Sound like your dream come true? shift. Please speak to Ginger Jung in the Tuesday, early evening This job might be for you. Please speak to Membership Office (or put a note in her mail- Adaptable, physically energetic, team work- Adriana or Cynthia in the Membership Office box) prior to the first shift for more information ers with excellent attendance needed to for more information. and to schedule training. You must make a six- help set up and break down the space where month commitment to this workslot. Store Equipment Cleaning the General Meeting is held. Contact Monday, 6 to 8 a.m. Bank Run Adriana Becerra, Membership Coordinator, [email protected]. The Coop is looking for members to clean the Monday, Wednesday checkout area of the store. It entails cleaning Daytime the scales at each checkout and vacuuming This job is task-oriented, not time-oriented. around the base of the checkout station as well Working with a partner, you will assemble mate- Van/Truck Driver for GM as sweeping and occasionally mopping. You will rials for Coop cashiers. This is a midday job with Delivery/Pick-Up work under the supervision of a staff person. an 11 a.m. start time. Requires a six-month Last Tuesday night of the month commitment, complete dependability in atten- Member with a van or truck needed to pick Check Store Supplies dance, and great accuracy. Contact Kathy Hieatt, up and load the team of workers and gear Monday, 9 to 11:45 a.m. Bookkeeping Coordinator, Monday-Friday, 9-5. from the Coop at 5:30 p.m. and drop them off This workslot is responsible for restocking sup- at the local General Meeting venue (currently plies on the shopping floor, at checkout lanes, M.S. 51) and help unload. Then, be on call to entrance desks and the cashier stations, and in Daily Coin Processing return to venue for pick-up and loading of the basement. This is a task- and detailed-ori- Saturday Evening workers and gear between hours of 8:45-10 ented job, ideal for someone who likes working This job is task-oriented, not time-oriented. You p.m., and drive back to Coop. You must be independently and is pro-active. Please speak to will be counting coins, filling out forms, and dependable, with good attendance. Contact Alex in the Membership Office or contact him at using machines that count coins and bills. Adriana Becerra, Membership Coordinator, [email protected] if you are interested. Comfort with numbers and electronic machines [email protected].
THANK YOU!
Thank you to the following members for referring friends who joined the Coop in the last four weeks.
Chris Agee Dan Goldstein Catherine McCaw Thomas Ahern Laura Grant Sarah Meredith Nova Ami Adjua Greaves Melissa Metrick Aparna Anantharaman Molly Gunther Emily Miller Natalie D. Anava Marshall Hagins Madelyn Moyer Zach Appelman Robert Hernandez Cyslin Pajares Yael Avnon Rachel Hurn Jade Payne Sharon Avnon Yaniv Yelena Itkina Macarry Pobanz Ariana Bahret Karen Johnson Angela Redekop Jane Barnett Kate Johnson David Redekop Nancy Beck Conall Jones Dawn Redekop Stephanie Bejar Kaoru Jones-Kobayashi William Redekop Maria Bordallo Julia Rochelle Reynosa Brian Barbara Kass Marissa Rhodes Jennifer Brown Noah Kershaw Faye Richards Bruce Kim Carolyn Robbins Tetina Bunche Savannah Knoop Hillary Rubenstein Zoe Carey Andrew Koncz Stephanie Rutkowski Shelly Carvalho Leah Krauss Yotam Silberstein Sandra Catania Joshua Kristal Margo Simon Nerissa Clarke Elizabeth L. Mae Singerman Erica Cohen-Taub Robert L. S. Singh Sam Coleman Lauryl Daniel Slepitsky Matthew Coluccio Leon Lazaroff Rachel Smerd Daniel D’Oca Jessica Levin Thomas Southwick Nico Dann Liat Anim Steel Margaret De Cruz Ryann Liebenthal Jeffrey Stern Alicia DeBrincat Kristin Lilley Luke Stern Ava Donaldson Cammie Lin Maxwell Taylor Michelle Eilers Edgar Lin Jacqueline Vimo Aaron Elliott Paul Liu Chris Voss
Maggie Fay Liz Sally Warring ILLUSTRATION BY ETHAN PETTIT Amara Foster Lisa Lopez Liz Wisan Ora Fruchter Colleen Macklin Katie Yeskel Lisa Genn Trevor MacDermid Amy Yu Jason Glick Manissa Maharawal Adrienne Yurick Zoltan Gluck Ariana Mangual Ilana Zarankin Stephanie Goichman Audrey Mazur Kate Zuckerman
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