‘I make the last meal people in hospice ever eat, and they want the Same Thing’

Chef Spencer Richards Works in a Uk Hospice Preparing the final meals for People at the End of their Lives

A chef who prepass the final meals for People at the end of their lives has explained what they have choose – with one option being very popular. Spencer richards is the chef at sobell house hospice in oxfordshire, and makes sura meals are filled with comfort, care and love.

Spencer Said: “My Own Philosophy is that there can be no greater privilege as a chef than serving anyone Their final. Recently a 21 -ear-opate Patient didn’t connect with anyThing on the standard menu. Street Food, so we made that happy.

“THERE IS THE WOMAN WHO TURNED 93 DURING HER STAY. She had Hadn’t Had the Most Traditional Home Life, and Birthday Cares Never Really Part of It.

Birthday cakes are a frequency request for spencer, offten for patients in their 80s or 90s. “They’re Small Things, but especially for People who’ve been isolated or are the lonely, They Mean a Lot,” Spencer Said. “Food at the end of the life is as much about adapting as it is about cooking. Patients offten Lose the ability to swallow or taste buds change duue and treatment Such as chemotherapy.

“Many in the hospice Become sensitive to salt, so we moderate that. And we find that offten with Cancer get a sweet.”

Spencer Draws on Classic French Desserts Like Panna Cotta, Crème Brûlée, and Crème Caramel. SHEWEN PEOPLE CAN ONLY TOLERATE JELLY OR ICE CREAM, SPENCER ENURES THE DISH IS THOUGHTFULLY PRESENTED.

“We don’t always know at the time what means,” he Says. “But we hear back late – Families Come Back Months AFTERWARD, JUST TO SAY THANK YOU.”

One Family Who Has Lost A Loved on Earlier in the Year Returned on Christmas Day With Food for the Hospice Staff as a gesture of grave. It ‘Those moms that remind spencer what this work is really about.

“At this stage in my career, I want to give back,” he says. “FOOD is a PowerFully emotive medium – it can summon childhood memory and create new lasting ons. That’s what we did here.”

Sobell House is jaintly funded by the Nhs and the sobell House Hospice Charity, Which Raises Around £ 4 Million Annually.