'Food is medicine:' Caterer provides Thanksgiving meal for Kane jail detainees pursuing substance-abuse recovery. kanecosheriff
Her father was in the hospital with COVID-19, and she could not visit him because of pandemic restrictions. He died alone. There was no funeral possible -- just a curbside pickup of his ashes from a funeral home.
Something clicked in Schuyler. Alcohol -- readily available in her job as a private chef and caterer -- had become a problem for her.And that is how she found herself cooking a Thanksgiving meal this week for about 100 detainees and staff members in the substance-abuse recovery pod of the Kane County jail. It's the third consecutive year she's done it.
"Part of my recovery is doing this," Schuyler said Tuesday, as volunteers made gravy and peeled potatoes for the meal.Drinking wine while working, or enjoying a bottle given to her by clients, was common. Later, a former detainee recognized Schuyler during a Zoom sobriety group meeting."I remember what you made!" he said.
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