Galactic Gourmet

1996

Look, we need to get something straight here, right? Hospital food has always been awful, right, got that? And you can't expect Sector General, catering to more than three hundred species with almost that many species on staff, some of who aren't in their normal mind, to get the food right even as well as a normal hospital.

Right?

Glad we've got that sorted!

Gurronsevas was the Galaxy's foremost chef, renowned on Earth,Traltha and even Nidia. He found that fame and the honour of his patrons, and a staff of scurrying minions, are no longer enough and he looks around for a new challenge.

Learning of the tragic state of the kitchens at Sector General, he gains the position of Chief Dietician and takes on the mission to make hospital food something to be talked of in pleasure rather than horror.

Gurronsevas has a number of obstacles to overcome, not least the doubts of Chief Psychologist O'Mara. The staff meals were not too difficult to improve and be made palatable so the project then moved on to the wards and patients. He had two constituencies to satisfy here; the nurses who had to deliver the food to the patients and the patients themselves, some of whom were not too bad, and some of who were seriously ill. Can they be persuaded to co-operate?

But Gurronsevas' greatest task came when he went out with the ambulance ship Rhabwar and had to persuade the Wem to change the ways of countless generations!

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