I was hired as an assistant cook for the summer institute I worked for ten days (40 hours) helping with meals for the twenty or so participants in the institute. I would work with my mother (the head cook) in the kitchen, set up for the meals and wash the dishes afterwards. We were set up in one of the Chevak school's kitchens. At first there was some mix-ups with the food, which had to be flown in, with it not showing up or things that should be frozen (like meat), not, and things that shouldn't be frozen (like carrots), frozen. But it got sorted out in the end, and my mother, being the resourceful person that she is, was able to make a menu out of what we did, or did not have.