肯代尔教师建社区烤炉：邻居们一起烘焙、一起用餐
2012年10月18日
2012年10月18日
斯科基（Skokie）Melina Kelson和她的丈夫Pete Podolsky在他们的后院建造社区用的烤炉。这对夫妇正在募款完成这个项目。
Melina Kelson和Pete Podolsky在捐款的帮助下建造社区用的后院烤炉。
募集的资金：本周11839美元
捐款网址：www.kickstarter.com/projects/236 ... ty-by-nourishing-ne
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斯科基——社区团结在一起的方式各有不同，但Melina Kelson和丈夫Pete Podolsky却出其不意。
在斯科基家中的后院里，这对夫妇正在建造一个户外砖炉，这不仅是准备食物的新方法，也是为社区人民建立的环保项目。
Kelson和Podolsky想要在一个Kickstarter项目中筹集11000美元作为修建烤炉的启动资金，但是在还有2周的筹集时间时，他们所花费的资金已经超过了这个数目。如果这对夫妇不能完成筹集11000美元的目标，那么根据Kickstarter的规定，他们一分钱都拿不到。
他们在Kickstarter网页上表示：“在仅仅3周的时间里，你们和其他善良人士已经将Bootleg Batard从一种想法转化成为一个相互关怀、分享、激励的社区。从缅因州（Maine）到加州（California），超过125个关注此项目的人像你们一样加入我们，帮助我们达成建造社区烤炉的第一个目标。我们很高兴你们能够支持这种做法，大家共同分享一个传统烤炉，帮助形成一个注重天然健康美食的社区。”
他们绝对是进行这样一个注重营养项目的最佳人选。
Kelson和Podolsky在初中时就彼此认识了。但是后来两人才相爱结婚。
Podolsky是一个有15年工作经验的专业厨师，他曾在麦考米克会展中心（McCormick Place）的国家餐厅协会（National Restaurant Association）展览上工作，那时需要一个西点厨师，就聘用了完成烹饪学校学习的Kelson。他们结婚后，于1997年搬到了斯科基。
Podolsky表示：“当我们第一次搬进这个家时，我们就讨论了在后院建个烤炉的想法。”
Kelson表示后院烤炉一直都只是一个梦想而已：“我从未想过有一天能够梦想成真。”
当那个梦想首次成形时，Kelson成为了肯代尔大学西餐西点学院的教师。目前，她已经协助建立了2个户外烤炉，第一个是于2006年在芝加哥社区中心建立。起初，这个烤炉是给一个烘焙师用的，但是它现在已经变成了一个社区烤炉，与Kelson和Podolsky设想的后院烤炉的功能一样。
Kelson表示：“自从人们第一次开始建烤炉以后，户外烤炉已经成为一种团结的力量。每一个社区都应该有一个自己的烤炉，这样人们就可以带着自家的食物和面包一起烘焙美食。”
或者将Kelson和Podolsky的设想再阐述地简单点：“人们聚集在一起，一起烘焙，然后一起品尝。”
Kelson的第二个烤炉建在肯代尔大学，用于教学。
在Kelson如此热衷于“社区烤炉”之前，她曾与社区组织如密尔沃基（Milwaukee）Growing Power一起工作学习可持续农业，该组织致力于拉近社区内邻里之间的关系。
早在他们的后院烤炉项目启动之前，2007年时她和她的丈夫就在他们的房子外建了一个漂亮的社区花园。
Kelson强调，在考虑环保和能源效率时户外烤炉是烘焙的最佳方法。
她表示：“这种烤炉工作的方式是依靠保留的热量而非直接的热量。”
最佳的使用方法就是点燃炉子，当它变得超级热时，人们就可以做卷饼和披萨饼。当火燃尽，煤四处散开，这样隔热的地方就仍然保持热的状态，人们就可以继续烹饪至温度逐渐降下来。Kelson表示烤炉可以保持热量3天。
Kelson一家设想，当他们烘焙时，也要让邻居知道烤炉是可以用的，合理协调时间，在烤炉保持热量的3天里充分使用。
她表示：“当你开始谈论自己正在做什么，为什么这样做时，这样大家就会变得亲近一些。你会更好地了解你的邻居。社区也通过烹饪熟络起来。这样许多人都不会再不认识他们的邻居了。”
Kelson和Podolsky表示，这也是他们在建自己的花园时所发生的事情。人们路过时，都会过来帮忙，然后过来拜访，大家彼此间就相互熟悉了。
这对夫妇于6月份开始用7000美金建造户外烤炉，他们和雇佣的人手定期完善这一烤炉。
筹集的11000美元将帮助他们完成工作的核心部分。他们欢迎其他志愿者加入这个项目，看看他们的创举。
他们说，接下来的工作就是建烤炉的外砖，使炉子与外界隔离。随后，他们需要一个有能力的设计师，设计斯科基村人都能够接受的烤炉的房子。一旦房子有了，接下来就需要工具来增加社区烤炉的性能了。
Kelson和Podolsky表示，他们正在实现他们的“烤炉梦”，“只要他们建成了，人们就会过来一起用。”
Kelson表示：“我们这个项目已经带来了很多对此感兴趣的人。这个项目刚出现在Kickstarter上时，我们就获得80人的支持。这表明人们对整件事情是多么的感兴趣和兴奋。“
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In community oven, neighbors ‘make bread then break bread’
October 18, 2012
Melina Kelson, of Skokie,and her husband Pete Podolsky work on their backyard oven that is being builtto serve the community. The couple are seeking donations to complete theproject.
WHAT: Melina Kelson and Pete Podolsky are building acommunity-oriented backyard oven with the help of donations.
AMOUNT RAISED: $11,839 as of this week.
VOLUNTEER: info@bootlegbatard.com
SKOKIE — Communities come together in different ways, andMelina Kelson and husband Pete Podolsky came up with an extraordinary one.
In the backyard of their Skokie home the couple arebuilding an outdoor brick oven — not just as a new way to prepare food forthemselves but as a community-building and environmentally friendly project.
Kelson and Podolsky wanted to raise $11,000 ina Kickstarter project to help pay for the oven, but they have already surpassedthat amount with still about two weeks of donation-gathering to go. Had the duonot been able to reach their $11,000 goal, they would not have received a pennyunder Kickstarter rules.
“In just three weeks, you and other good people like you have turned Bootleg Batard froman idea into a community of caring, sharing, inspiration and excitement,” theysaid on their Kickstarter web page. “From Maineto California,more than 125 caring people like you joined us in reaching the first goal inthe journey to build this oven. We are so grateful that you believe in thevision of sharing a traditional oven and helping to forge a community centeredon naturally good, real food.”
This is certainly the right couple to undertake such a nutritionally sound project.
Kelson and Podolsky knew each other since junior high. But it wasn’t until later when theyfell in love and got married.
A professional chef for 15 years, Podolsky was at the National RestaurantAssociation show at McCormick Place and needed a pastry chef. Enter Kelson whowas finishing culinary school. After getting married, they moved to Skokie in 1997.
“Since wefirst moved into this house, we’ve talked about putting an oven in the backyard,” Podolsky said.
Kelson saidthe backyard oven was always a dream: “I didn’t realize it would ever become areality.”
Since that dream first formed, Kelson became a teacher for the Kendall College School for the CulinaryArts. She already has helped build two outdoor ovens — the first in 2006 for a Chicago community center.It originally was supposed to be used by a baker, but it has become much moreof a community oven — the same kind of use that Kelson and Podolsky envisionfor their own backyard addition.
“Outdoor ovens have become a unifying force since people first began building ovens,”Kelson said. “There would be an oven in each community, and people would bringtheir food and bread and they would bake together.”
Or to put Kelson’s and Podolsky’s vision in a pithier way: “People gather, they bakebread together and then they break bread together.”
Kelson’s second oven was built at Kendall College where she hasused it as part of her instruction.
Before she became so enamored with the concept of the “community oven,” Kelson learnedsustainable agriculture working with community-minded organizations such asMilwaukee-based Growing Power, which states it wants to “put the ‘neighbor’back in the ’hood.”
She and her husband created a lovely community garden outside their house in 2007 — longbefore their backyard oven project caught fire.
Kelson emphatically states that the outdoor oven is the best way to bake when it comes toconservation and energy-efficiency.
“The way an oven like this works is on retained heat rather than direct heat,” she said.
The ideal use is to fire up the oven and when it’s super-hot, one can cook flat breads andpizzas. The fire burns out and the coals are spread around so that theinsulated area remains heated for more cooking opportunities — the temperaturegradually dropping. The oven might be hot for three days, Kelson said.
The Kelson senvision doing their own baking and then letting the neighborhood know the ovenis available at coordinated times for the next three or so days.
“You start talking about what you’re doing and why you’re doing it and everyone becomescloser,” she said.
“You know your neighbors better. It’s as much aboutcommunity as it is about cooking. So many people don’t know their neighborsanymore.”
That’s just what happened when the couple installed their garden, Kelson and Podolsky say.People came by, they contributed, they visited, they got to know each other.
The couple started building the outdoor oven in June with $7,000 or so of their own moneyand have worked on it regularly — both with their own hands and hired hands.
The $11,000 in raised funds have allowed themto complete the heart of the work. They welcome other volunteers to work on theproject and see what they have accomplished.
The next jobs, they say, involve building the external brick facing and insulating theoven. Then they need to locate a competent designer to plan a shelter that the village of Skokie would need to approve. Once thatshelter is built, funding for tools and structures to increase the capabilitiesof the oven for the community are needed.
Kelson andPodolsky say they are fulfilling their “Oven of Dreams” for “If they build it,people will come.”
“We’ve already generated so much interest,” Kelson said. “We got 80 backers in a weekas soon as the project appeared on Kickstarter. It shows just how interestedand excited people are about this whole thing.”
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