Support Food + Beverage Workers Affected by the Texas Hill Country Floods

Our hearts are with everyone in the Texas Hill Country.

Southern Smoke provides financial relief during the recovery phase of disasters. We’ve committed $150,000 to support affected F+B workers and are prepared to do more. Sysco will match up to $15,000 in donations to amplify our impact.

The Hill Country Relief Fund application will open August 15. For urgent needs like medical or funeral expenses, F+B workers can apply now through our existing relief fund. Our Behind You program also offers no cost counseling to F+B workers.

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Memphis, TN /
Hog & Hominy
WHERE WILL I BE COOKING:

Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman trained at Johnson and Wales University in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Italian Culinary Institute in Calabria, Italy. They opened Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen in 2008, featuring innovative Italian cooking rooted in Southern tradition, then came Hog & Hominy, a wood-burning neighborhood eatery named one of the top new restaurants by GQ, Southern LIving, and Bon Appetit. Next came Josephine Estelle in the Ace Hotel New Orleans in 2016, and concepts in Memphis including Catherine & Mary’s, The Gray Canary, Bishop, and Little Bettie Pizzeria. Ticer and Hudman have been nominated for nine James Beard Foundation awards since 2012.