Pink Palate authors donate best book award to patient support program
3/1/07 -- A patient support program at Forrest General Hospital has received
a major donation from
the authors of an award-winning cookbook. Forrest General's Healthcare
Foundation was
presented with a check for $5,000 tonight at the hospital's Cancer Center.
It came from the folks behind The Pink Palate, a book of recipes by breast
cancer patients
and survivors. They gave the check over to the foundation after receiving the
same amount
from the book's publisher, Morris Press Cookbooks, which has named The Pink
Palate its
best cook book of the year for 2006.
"This is what we've all worked so hard for over the past year-and-a-half," said
Dawn Gillis,
director for The Pink Palate and director of the Waiting for a Cure Fund. Money
raised
from sales of the book will be used to help support a breast cancer patient
navigator
program. So far, sales of the book have brought in more than $25,000 for that
program.
