The Cooking Wounded

Grateful for the opportunity to write about my incredible cooking team, including our strong man, Bill Ross, in Living Lutheran: 

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If you saw Bill Ross today, you’d never know his body had been crushed in a truck accident. He had a broken hip, broken wrist, three broken ribs, and two legs broken in five places. Plus a collapsed lung and concussion. Serious blows to bone and flesh.

Peace out, friends

These days, if you saw this 50-something man on a Wednesday night in our church kitchen, you’d see a mighty strong man. He can strain humongous pots of boiling pasta water, grill ground beef 20 pounds at a time, and wield hot and heavy casseroles from industrial-sized ovens. It is now five years after his accident, and he can cook an entrée for 150 people in two hours. Bill Ross has come a long way since June 30, 2008, when his 22-foot-long straight truck slammed into a semi-truck on a two-lane road in rural Iowa. The other truck driver helped him, he was rushed to intensive care, and doctors didn’t know if he’d make it through the night.

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