MAY 12TH
HEALTHY MEALS...PG 8
Vol 18, No. 12 • May 2019
News You Can Use
Love of cooking keeps Holland busy feeding hungry customers beans or a bit of potato salad. "The customers keep me on my toes. Everything I make, it goes. They know my cooking." The work of feeding anywhere from 75 to 100 who drop by her house to pick up to-go containers makes for a busy weekend. Holland said she starts planning on Friday which of a long list of recipes she keeps stored in her head that she will serve. Saturday mornings are for trips to the grocery store to stock up and then Saturday nights she starts baking her chocolate, lemon, strawberry and red velvet cakes. "I stay up until I get it done," she said. "It's all in knowing what you're doing." Then she's back in the kitchen beginning at 5:30 a.m. Sunday to prep the long list of meats, casseroles, salads, side dishes and whatever else she is making for the hungry folks who Helene Holland stop in to pick up their lunches after Sunday services. "You've Address: P.O. Box 1292 Corinth, MS 38835 got to do the vegetables fresh on Sunday." "I get a lot of churchgoers," said Holland, who POSTAL PATRON lives by Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church.
By Lucy Weber Helene Holland can't help but cook. "I love to cook. I enjoy it," said the Corinth resident, who spent 25 years in the kitchen cooking for the customers who praised her cooking at Martha's Menu. "I'm proud of what I do." After the restaurant closed last September, Holland decided she had to do something to keep feeding hungry customers. "I got bored sitting here," she said. "I keep on moving on." About three months ago, Holland decided to start cooking again for the masses. She started selling plate lunches out of her house on Sundays. "I serve until I run out," she said, adding that sometimes she's ony left with two spoonfuls of green Return
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Nichols honors mother and sister with her skills in kitchen By Lucy Weber Mildred Nichols is known in Selmer, Tenn., for her flavorful pans of dressing, not to mention her casseroles and cakes. Folks liked her cooking so much they started putting in orders which Nichols is happy to fill. "People know me from church, and they just liked see NICHOLS pg 4
Mildred Nichols
Cooking appetizing meals is what Alexander loves to do in kitchen dents. I love being there around them." By Lucy Weber The home is supposed to have four Laurie Alexander likes nothing betcooks in the kitchen making three ter than spoiling those she cooks for. meals a day, but due to personal cirThe dietary manager at Whitfield cumstances, there are two full time and Nursing Home in Corinth for seven one part-time cook. Alexander is years makes sure the residents happy to fill in as cook when there get the food they like. she's needed, and sometimes She also makes them feel like family because in so many she finds in the kitchen seven ways they are. Her father, days a week for all three daily who worked at the home, is meals. "Right now, I don't have a day off." now a resident, and her Cooking is in addition to brother holds the job their doing her regularly scheduled father did for many years. Her mother is there daily job of making sure the residents are eating, the to visit, and the home's kitchen has everything it owner is like a sister to needs, doing all the necesher. "It's a family thing," sary paperwork and more. she said. "I have fed some of the "We cook what people residents by hand," Alexander ate at home. I know all the said. "I want to make sure they're residents' likes and dislikes. If not losing weight. I want them to they don't like something, I Laurie Alexander eat." don't put it on their plates," see ALEXANDER pg 4 Alexander said. "I like to spoil my resi-