[dmode]

My wife visited Israel and told me about the concept of Kibbutz. Since then I have been thinking about it and it is such a great concept. May be someone can borrow some aspects of the kibbutz and invent a business model. A big communal kitchen for the neighborhood where professional chefs make food for the community, but costs are kept low by households volunteering in prep work and clean-up. Everyone subscribes to the communal kitchen like an HOA. Would be great for the neighborhood community to better know each other and also access healthy "home cooked" meals.

[mooreds]

Here in the USA I believe it's called co-housing. I have some friends who live in such neighborhoods and they love it.

More here: http://www.cohousing.org/