The kitchen was supposed to close at the end of August, but its manager, Kathrine Gregory, hatched a survival plan and enlisted the cooks to help her.
"It was never going to be enough to raise money," says Shewry, though he raised enough last year with his WAW Gathering weekend of some of the world's top cooks to help keep the programme going through 2015.
"You need to be really comfortable with what you are doing, because you don't have an army of prep cooks to help you with food you are unfamiliar with.
So I got one of the cooks to help, along with the drug-addled brother of my boss's silent partner; I recruited my own brother, two years younger, to haul the trays of beer steins to me from the front.
Other times, he spends a couple of hours with the house cooks to help perfect a recipe he'd previously cooked for the client.
Supplement this with a cleaner, a gardener and even a student cook to help out with meal preparation, all people whose presence is only needed intermittently rather than daily.
Ms. Dyer, visiting from Jamaica, was getting ready to help cook for Gavin's christening party, with 50 people expected.
But after a short training session with a Butterball veteran, Colbert was seated at his station, ready to help Thanksgiving cooks in need. .
Mr Cook tried to help by saying that he knew of no other sealed indictments against Serbs in Bosnia's British sector, which covers Banja Luka.Britain, like other governments engaged in Bosnia, faces a dilemma.
While you cook, get someone to help set the table, prepare games, etc. Enjoy the barbecue!
