The Galactic Gourmet

Gurronsevas, the greatest chef in the Galaxy, is appointed as Chief Dietician to Sector General. Unfortunately, running the kitchens of a splendid hotel, however varied its guests, is not quite the same as improving the dining experience of medical personnel and patients in a multi-species hospital.

If "to seek out new life and new civilizations" was more your thing than ray guns and lasers, you can't go wrong with this series set in Sector General Hospital.

Honestly, I want to love this series. I do remember liking the few I had read BGR (Before GoodReads). But the thing about reading rabidly, as I do, is that it becomes too easy to be distracted by flaws and weaknesses. And these Sector General books have plenty of them: long-winded explanations, individuals who actually differ more by species than by selves, personalities that are all human-like, clumsy developments, handwavium.... They're fun, with interesting ideas... but there's so much out there that's so much better; I just can't recommend them or continue with later ones in the series. (Someday, though, I might go back and read some of the earliest again.)

Gurronsevas the chef sets his next challenge for himself - to improve the hospital food at Sector General. But every action seems to have an unintended reaction and he soon finds himself aboard the ambulance ship Rhabwar to avoid irritating the powers that be in the hospital. And their next emergency trip needs just his special skills.
I like Gurronsevas and his way of looking at life. A pleasure to read.

White, James. The Galactic Gourmet. Sector General No. 9. Tor, 1996.
The Galactic Gourmet is one of the most entertaining of the Sector General novels. When one of the galaxy’s greatest multispecies chefs, it would say the greatest, comes to Sector General because it needs a challenge, it finds that outside the kitchen it is just a clumsy six-legged rookie. Disaster pile up around it, though it means well and has a good couple of hearts. Eventually, it is exiled to the ambulance ship where it must try to save a planet full of carnivores to eat vegetables. I would not make this your first Sector General novel, but if you have read one or two of the others, this one will not offer any stumbling blocks.

A science fiction series that features a hospital space station on the galactic brim that provides care to all beings. The famous chef has taken on the challenge to become the head dietician and create meals that will promote the recovery of all these beings. There is enough bungling that he has to leave for awhile. While away he visits another planet on am ambulance ship and meets up with a dying species. At first I wasn't to impressed but found it easy to read and I have to say I enjoyed the book. It is in the middle (#9) but I think other than knowing what all the initials mean, it didn't matter. It was hard to imagine these aliens.

Working as I do in a hospital, the Sector General stories have always had a particular resonance, and this one in particular (I've had to suffer hospital food as a patient as well) was fun and interesting as the celebrity chef causes all sorts of chaos within the multi species wards of Sector General.

It was less engaging where he helps save a planetary population from the effects of their own depredations on their planet's ecology.

This 9th book in the Sector General series was another which is told from the point of view of an alien rather than Conway. This time the main character is a Tralthan who is a chef specializing in other-species cuisine; Gurronseva has come to the hospital to be the Chief Dietician.