Just talked to him. He made the front page of the local paper today, and two local tv stations interviewed him today, as well as the Louisiana Broadcasting Network. They haven't had too many customers yet, but it is picking up. With this media blitz, they should be going gangbusters by the weekend. Way to go Steve and 5th Foot. :thumb:
La., W.Va. chefs team up to benefit fallen miners | WBRZ News 2 Louisiana : Baton Rouge, LA | (sorry if this has already been linked in a post, will trust the mods to delete it if it has) Dammit, now I'm starving... wish I was there!
Great idea man. I'm sure those toothless hillbillies will love your cooking. (I kid, I kid, 'Eer visitors.)
I just got home from West Virginia and it's good to be back on Louisiana soil. My accent changed up there because there was no humidity...(down here, the humidity swallows up the ends of my words and the last syllables don't get to the other person's ears.) The event was a HUGE success. We raised some money for the charity, remembertheminers.org, but what we really delivered was publicity for their charity. Stories about the event went viral because it was a human interest story about rival, competing fan bases coming together for a greater cause in the context of a football game...putting college football in proper perspective. Stories about the brunch were picked up and published in newspapers internationally because last Tuesday it hit the AP wire. It also went viral on social media sites and commercial websites like CNN and ESPN as well. In addition to that, it went national on NPR radio and XM satellite radio as well. The most satisfying thing about the event, for me, was serving the nice people of West Virginia at the Richwood grill in Morgantown. You don't know how many times people there thanked me because they personally knew someone who died in that explosion. It really reminded me a lot of what went on in Katrina. I knew firsthand what it felt like to have life change instantly forever because my uncle drowned in his attic during Katrina. These people are just like us, but with a different accent. They're primarily blue collar workers who hunt and fish and, like us, they work in dangerous situations to extract fossil fuels out of the ground... ...and, like us, the rest of America cares more about the coal and the oil than they do about our respective states.
