AN IOWA SENIOR DINING CHEF'S STORY OF CREATIVE CARING

摘要

Chad Myers has years of culinaryexperience from a country club. Last year, after a failed venture, he ended up with an unexpected beginning as a senior dining chef at Mill Valley Care Center, a nursing home with 40 residents and an assisted living side with about 18 tenants just nine blocks away from where he lives with his family in the small Iowa town of Bellevue.Just as he was getting settled into senior dining, coronavirus struck, shutting down visiting hours and communal dining rooms. While it's been a challenge, Myers has a pretty tenacious sense of optimism."I think that it goes without saying that this coronavirus debacle has been quite the learning experience," he says. "Maybe I'm an eternal optimist, but I feel like there is a silver lining to most events in life. I lost my mother when I was 21. That washorrible, but it started a series of eventsthat led me into professional kitchens, something that I know that I was put on this earth to do."