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Chef makes lemonade from lemons Cancer diagnoses inspires cookbook Annie Campbell working in the kitchen at Voyageur Bistro. | PHOTO SPIN
JEAN STRONG ANYONE WHO HAS ENJOYED EATING A MEAL AT VOYAGEUR BISTRO in the past five years has Annie Campbell to thank for creating infamous recipes like beer and bacon marmalade, duck drumettes and pork
belly ribs. But Campbell was forced to step back from her role as head chef after being diagnosed with cancer in October 2017. The diagnoses was serious, and came as a shock to the 30-year-old who thought she was having minor issues with her gallbladder. Doctors told her to expect to receive
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chemotherapy for the rest of her life. But one of the hardest parts of digesting the news was being told to stop working the line in the kitchen. “That was hard. I actually really like my job,” she said. “It’s been such an amazing experience, my first head chef job, I was creating the first menu...it was definitely, after the diag-
noses, the worst thing to hear.” After getting the news and beginning treatment Campbell said she spent a lot of time at home and visiting with friends and family but grew tired of always being in the same place and knew she still liked cooking. It was then she realized she had a chance to do something
she had always dreamed of— creating her own cookbook. “I said ‘I’m taking life’s lemons and making some lemonade.’” In early 2018 she began the process of refining her well loved recipes and CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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