- q i i Tt | , ! By. GAIL DOTINGA Herald Staff Writer Cooking for over 100. people, most of them sick, is no easy task. , At Mills Memorial Hospital, the kitchen takes the complaints in stride, In fact they say they receive more compliments than complaints. Dietician Joan Marr gives several reasons why it’s not easy to-please every patient’s ‘taste buds. . “For starters no in- stitution has that home. cooking taste, you just can’t get it when you're providing meals for that many people,” said. Marr. Mills Memorial does some of their own baking but cannot afford to do it | “we have: to realize that our customers are. sick, at times they are - going to be irritable or depressed and nothing § will please them, especially those in isolation,” Marr said. * “Also, in some. cases the doctor has put them ona strict diet -— a logger put on fluids or low calorie is not going to be happy and it’s the kitchen _ Mary-Anne Derrick, one of the cooks at Mills Memorial H that takes the flak,”’ said Marr. a The kitchen operates on a 12 day menu. “That’s so we don't _ serve the same Sunday dinner twice in a row.” “If we serve a meal that’s not all that popular such as liver and onions, we will add an alter- native,” said Marr. - Roughly one half of the patients at the hospital have some choice in their meals. When . Margaret Degerness, food service supervisor, visits with each of these patients, she tells them what is on the menu for the day and asks which of the items they prefer. - The other half is either Stevens’ are tired HARTBEESPOORT, South Africa (UPI). — Despite a fever caused by a bite from a puff adder, Austin Stevens ‘has-entered the home-strech in his bid to: break the world snake sit-in record, Stevens, bitten on the hand’ Province.of., CGD ga ULE TRE nt UT rca SDP at nae wee utente ees nat oe Page 10, The Herald, Tuesday, May 13, 1960 ital 1 4 Macq a yrads GMOS SH ad St eal eg i ye, Sa eh a gto are oe & { ospital, takes from the oven one of the large trays-of meat to keeping the, food hot till Great care is also given it reaches: the patients... “ Some’ ‘of; the larger . 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