If you've never been to Loth...
Lothlorien Hall is one of the twenty Berkeley Student Co-ops. Lothlorien (Loth) houses 56 students who live cooperatively. 10-20 boarders pay a fee to eat food at Loth and use the kitchen and the facilities (including sauna, garden, hot tub, sun deck, and band room). Student groups such as the Society for Agriculture and Food Ecology, take advantage of our commercial grade kitchen. We have enormous Hobart mixers, graters, and kneaders, a broad range and oven with 5.5 square feet of grill space. We also have a separate room for dish washing, large pot washing are with three huge stainless steel sinks. Food is prepared in massive quantities.
We cooperatively buy, cook, eat, and clean. The facilities are commercial grade and commercially graded. Health inspectors influence the content and tone of discussion and the open or closed status of the kitchen. Except when we are shut down, the kitchen is open 24 hours a day. All food is shared, except for personal items such as cheese, juice, alcohol, and special ingredients.
Every night dinner for 50 is cooked and served. On Saturday there is brunch at noon instead of dinner. Cooking teams of two or three work for 8 or 9 hours total to prepare a meal. Food waste is a big issue in the Kitchen, and it gets discussed often. Read another submission to find out about "Alfred the Puppet Master", "Rat Wars", and "Food Craft".
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