Catering & Me

When I look back at my tenure with Max & Me Catering there are many amazing high profile events that stand out. There are two major events however that were the most exciting, rewarding and ultimately became career makers. One of them was the Bush Campaign Train trip following the RNC in 2000. After catering the craziest two weeks of all our careers, we had to pack up, load in and be ready to serve 200 members of the traveling international media on a moving train in Pittsburgh about 12 hours after our last event wrapped in Philly. How could we do this? Our operative mantra became "how could we NOT do this?" Figure it out. Create amazing menus. Try and anticipate every potential problem. Put our best people on it. Price it so we wouldn't lose money. Figure out how to return in one piece. On the road with W. & the late great catering whiz Ariel Alejandro Here are some of the details and itinerary. We would be serving 4 meals over the 3 days of August ...

Before I return to RNC 2000 and finish the story on the Bush Campaign Train, please indulge me as I update some things I discussed at the beginning of writing this blog almost 4 years ago. Sometimes my body thinks it's in a different time zone, today I think it's GMT. I fell asleep last night at 8pm and woke up at 3am. Solid 7 hours, but off kilter with the rest of Philly. Nothing to do but read, write and listen to music. So I started reading my own blog from it's inception, which I have never done. Realized I need to update some stuff. Here we go... Like her dad, K couldn't resist the draw of the Rockies. When I started the blog I was about 3 months away from driving my daughter Katie to college in Denver. This morning I realized that it's now 3 months until we get to celebrate her graduation. Wow. For those of you who have kids about to go off to college, here's a warning, the 4 years will pass a helluva lot faster than your own college time did. I am so...