Calabama, aka Cara is a fascinating lady with a great story behind her brand and her hot sauce. Please enjoy the journey of how she came to be Calabama and how she got from Alabama to LA. If you're in the Southern California area or happen to be passing through on a random weekend be sure to look her up. You can find her @calabama on Instagram!
I took a few minutes to ramble on what I've been up to lately. A little family vacation and a couple of weeks traveling for work. Shout outs to the crews at Certified Angus Beef, Daniel & Diana Clark and Wes Zimmerman in particular, and Broadleaf Game- Mark, Annie & Tim Mitchell. Thank you to all of you that helped educate me and help me gain knowledge in my field... Also for feeding me a lot of kick ass meals during the time I got to spend with each of your teams!
On July 20, 2019 I was given the opportunity to speak in honor of a great human being, Henry "Hawk" Levendusky. Hawk was the father of one of my best friends, David Levendusky, and through the almost 35 years that I knew Hawk he treated me like one of the family. David had asked me to read the beautiful words he'd written and to account in my own words the memories I had with his father. This is the recording of that. I was completely humbled and honored to be able to use my voice and memories as a conduit for my friend and his wonderful family. Hawk was one of the best people I've ever known and I am a better man for having had him in my life.
--- Support this podcast:https://anchor.fm/intothefryer/support
I was joined awhile back by my good friend and brother from another mother, Jeff Foehr. We had talked about getting back together and furthering our food and life discussion, but after I listened to our conversation several times I decided we had a pretty great chat. Jeff shared some great stories and we had some great laughs. His love for food and the food industry really come through. I hope you enjoy this episode.
--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast.https://anchor.fm/appSupport this podcast:https://anchor.fm/intothefryer/support
Most of small operators, shit even some of the bigger ones, work on very small profit margins and cash flow is very liquid and depends on the,(insert number), of people coming through the doors each and every day. The food industry in general really depends on that.
You may have noticed that the vlog posts have slowed down and the podcast has become stagnant and also that I haven’t written a blog post in quite some time. Well, from time to time you have to go into hibernation for a bit so you can be ready for what lies ahead. Ok, that sounds weird…but I think you get the point. Just like the caterpillar cocoons and comes out a beautiful butterfly I have to keep changing and growing what it is that I’m doing. It is this continuous evolution that something great happens.
I enjoyed changing how I felt and I liked feeling good. To get back to the statement at the top of the paragraph, the effects that my alcoholism were taking me down slowly, quietly and subtly. Like a thief in the night that came back over and over again, but only taking little things so you don’t notice until everything is almost completely gone. Hence, you don’t realize you have a problem until you do. Until it’s almost too late. In many cases, for some, it is too late.
Lucky for me my neighbor, John, is like Spicoli’s dad, “he’s got the ultimate set of tools.” Not only that he’s a fucking Swiss Army knife of knowledge and know how. Since I had no clue as to what I was getting myself into I enlisted his help in troubleshooting what I needed to do and get to undertake this project. If it wasn’t for him I’d either still be working mixing concrete or I’d have ran full speed into oncoming traffic.
