A Hospice Chef Reveals the One Comfort Food Patients Most Often Ask for at the End of Life, and What Those Final Requests Teach Us About Memory, Love, Identity, Dignity, and the Profound Human Meaning of a Last Meal
In a hospice, food is never just food. It is memory, identity, comfort, and sometimes the last remaining pleasure a person can still access when so much else has been taken by illness. When people approach the end of life, their relationship with eating changes dramatically. Appetite fades, taste alters, strength diminishes, and yet the…