Most employees occasionally miss a work deadline. And once in a while Mom can let the family manage without a nutritionally rounded home-cooked supper. But when supper is your job “not ready yet” is not an option. “A cook has three nonnegotiable deadlines every single day ” says Rabbi Chesky Neuhaus the cook at Yeshivas Zichron Moshe in South Fallsburg. Even if a worker is sick or a delivery has not arrived breakfast lunch and supper must go on. Former caterer Rabbi Yehoshua Weiss now head cook and kitchen manager at the Mir in Yerushalayim agrees. When the tidal wave of students floods out of the shiur rooms and beis medrash the food needs to be on the table. With thousands of bochurim and avreichim to feed Rabbi Weiss’s job is highly pressurized especially when there’s an occasional hiccup in plans. The Mir Yeshivah has its own shechitah. Rabbi Weiss remembers one memorable morning he was informed that the previous night’s shechitah had been problematic and the chickens would not make their early morning appearance. He improvised and created a new main dish based on goulash meat and wings spiced and served like the popular takeout dish Me’orav Yerushalmi. “Supper was a total hit!”