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    What We Feed Our Patients: The Journey, the Struggle, the Culture and How One Unrelenting Chef Is Changing the Way Patients in Hospitals Are Fed
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    What We Feed Our Patients: The Journey, the Struggle, the Culture and How One Unrelenting Chef Is Changing the Way Patients in Hospitals Are Fed
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    What We Feed Our Patients: The Journey, the Struggle, the Culture and How One Unrelenting Chef Is Changing the Way Patients in Hospitals Are Fed

    By Jim McGrody

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    About this ebook

    Did you ever wonder how an entire hospital is fed all at once, or how the food actually gets to each patient? Have you ever wondered why hospital food has such a bad reputation? Have you ever heard of gourmet food served in a healthcare setting?

    What We Feed Our Patients offers a behind-the-scenes look at the world of hospital food. Chef Jim McGrody has worked the last twenty-seven years in the food service business. Now, his passion for good food has turned to the treatment of patient food. Follow his culinary journey and relive his struggles, failures, and accomplishments in the quest for better food for hospital patients. Learn about the preparation of food served to the patients in hospitals and nursing homesheres a humorous depiction of what really goes on in hospital kitchens!

    Youll learn how patients can get what they want to eat, rather than simply eating what they are given. McGrody offers insight into who to talk to if there is a problem with the food being served and provides tips on what to say and do in those instances.

    It is possible for hospital food to be not just nutritious, but also tasty and exciting. Jim McGrody shares how in What We Feed Our Patients.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateFeb 11, 2011
    ISBN9781450285674
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    What We Feed Our Patients: The Journey, the Struggle, the Culture and How One Unrelenting Chef Is Changing the Way Patients in Hospitals Are Fed
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    Jim McGrody

    Jim McGrody is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. Jim has worked over twenty-seven years in the restaurant industry. He is currently the Director of Food and Nutrition at Rex Healthcare in Raleigh, North Carolina. He lives with his wife, Alicia, and their son.

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