The Great Catering Adventure

About this episode

Bossy shares her experience catering a film shoot for her son's senior project with the help of friends and family.

“Great catering adventure” or act of insanity? It was probably closer to the latter when Bossy offered to cater her son’s film shoot for his senior project on a freezing weekend in February in Philadelphia. Thank God for the help and support of so many people, including sisters-in-law Leslie and Gail and great friends, like Betsy Grenier, who survived the adventure and was willing to talk with us about it in this episode. Talking about trauma always helps. So what was the scope of this catering caper? Five meals for 30 starving college students spread out over two days at the Chamounix Mansion in Fairmont Park. Yep. We did that. And here's the thing about agreeing to do crazy big things: there is a weird sense of triumph that comes at the end because being part of a big creative project is truly amazing. When it was over, it felt like a dream--Betsy said "a bad dream"--but a dream nonetheless. All parents want their kids to find their passion and purpose, and living on the edge and bearing witness to that was, well, every parent's dream. But it definitely takes a village to make dreams happen, and this was more proof of that (as if we needed it). Our village was all the cast and…

People in this episode

Host: Bossy

Guest: Betsy Grenier

Topics covered

• catering
• film shoot
• creative projects
• community support
• parenting
• food preparation

Keywords

• catering
• film shoot
• Philadelphia
• community
• food
• creative projects
• support

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Philadelphia, Chamounix Mansion, Fairmont Park

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