Normally the first column of each month is a recipe. I will get to that next week but do you realize that our Senior Citizen Cooks are being treated like Second Class Cooks by the State of Montana?
All of the cooks were ordered to attend a meeting in Fort Benton June 28 where they were to learn more about how to cook commodities and how to cook different food than is being cooked at the Senior Citizen Centers around Montana.
Two flaws in all that. First, the cooks cook what goes over well. They are told to cook more fish and yet they have no fish to cook and when they do cook fish, there is a lot left over. This is not fish country so to speak.
As for commodities, there simply aren’t any. Linda Rutledge, who is the leader of the Big Sandy Senior Citizen’s Center can’t remember when they last got commodities and hopes that now that it is a new year (starting July 1) they actually might get some again.
With what the cooks have in their budget for food, they do remarkably well in being able to feed all those coming through the front door five times a week.
And, more important, they should be brought down to Fort Benton and given awards for doing such a good job in keeping costs down and food quality at a very high level in Big Sandy!
And, even more important than that, really, our cooks ought to be teaching the others attending how to cook because to a person, our cooks have forgotten more than most cooks will ever know!
Just a thought!
