APD Recipes
Looking for delicious and nutritious snack ideas? Quick and healthy meals? Here are some recipes from Alice's Cafe and the home kitchens of APD healthcare experts. Learn more.
Alice's Café Menu and Hours
Alice’s Café is open to visitors. Explore this week's menu here.
Café weekday hours: breakfast 6:30 am to 10 am; lunch 11 am to 1:30 pm.
Kitchen window: weekdays dinner 1:30 pm to 6:30 pm; weekends 8 am to 6:30 pm.
Cash and cards are accepted.
About Alice's Café
It looks like a simple small plate lunch, but research, culinary talent, and hard work has gone into creating food to heal the body and soul. An example: The Nutrition Services team recently transformed a hummus plate into fresher tasting, lower sodium meal by using green chickpeas instead of brown.
“The food at Alice Peck Day isn’t industrial, hospital food,” said Shawn Richardson, director of Nutrition & Environmental Services at APD. “Our team has more than 50 years of experience in fine dining restaurants, hotels and health care.”
If you’ve ever tried the soup, as an APD patient or visitor, you’ll know exactly what Richardson means. Fresh, local Gouda cheese adds a tasty twist to the traditional cheddar broccoli soup recipe. Alice’s Beef Stew is made with Vermont grown, grass-fed beef and cooked in a crock pot.
“We make all our soups fresh and in house,” Richardson said.
Nutrition Services is committed to providing homemade, nutritious food for patients, staff, and visitors. APD follows the Mediterranean diet with foods providing a rich source of vitamins, fiber, minerals, healthy fats, and phytochemicals. Richardson’s team also purchases the freshest, cleanest ingredients, such as cheese, vegetables, milk, and meat from local farms and producers.
More than Hospital Food
An Upper Valley resident checks the online weekly menu for Alice’s Café, then visits campus for meals as often as he can.