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Chef Simon Wiseman serves lunch dishes on-demand for three hours in the cafeteria at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa.

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Chef Simon Wiseman cleans chanterelle mushrooms, he foraged for near his home, to be included in the daily cafeteria feature at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa September 4, 2018.Blair Gable

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Basile Matabaro-Byamasu, 16, is served a hoisin beef and udon noodle dish as an enhanced room service menu option at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa September 13, 2018. Basile has sickle cell disease and went into salmonella sepsis, he was admitted to CHEO July 17 and is in so much pain that he couldn't sit up to eat, even with pain medication. Photograph by Blair GableBlair Gable

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Room service cook Sami Ben Abdelmalek prepares a hoisin beef and udon noodle dish as an enhanced room service menu option at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa September 13, 2018. Photograph by Blair GableBlair Gable

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Chef Simon Wiseman serves lunch dishes on-demand for three hours in the cafeteria at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa September 4, 2018. Photograph by Blair GableBlair Gable

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Chef Simon Wiseman picks fresh vegetables and herbs in the healing garden at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa September 4, 2018. Photograph by Blair GableBlair Gable

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CHEO patient Kyle Akesuk, 14, learns about produce in the healing garden with Chef Simon Wiseman at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa September 13, 2018. Kyle is from Cape Dorset on Baffin Island, Nunavut, and was medicated to the hospital on Aug. 31. He had an MRI right before coming outside. Photograph by Blair GableBlair Gable

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Micro greens to be served with various lunch dishes in the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) cafeteria n in Ottawa September 4, 2018. Photograph by Blair GableBlair Gable

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Chef Simon Wiseman preps locally made ramen noodles for lunch in the cafeteria at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa September 4, 2018. Photograph by Blair GableBlair Gable

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