Dave Grohl, the leader of the Foo Fighters, cooked barbecued meat for 450 homeless people for 16 hours

Dave Grohl, leader of the Foo Fighters, arrived at the homeless shelter at the last minute The mission of hope Los Angeles, with a charitable objective: cooking hundreds of kilos of food in a meat smoker for 16 hours.

with that amount of food it fed 450 homeless people and about 50 of the institution’s employees containment and social support. According to TMZ media, the menu consisted of “ribs, pork butt, brisket, collard greens, coleslaw“.

Grohl paid all costs and was actively involved as a cook in the culinary process. He slept in the parking lot for a while while the beef smoked,” TMZ reported.

Dave Grohl: Also a cook

The musician has a business called BackBeat BBQ, dedicated to grilled and smoked meats. He defined this work as a “individual catering company“. And that it was his close friends who persuaded him to open a restaurant.

This isn’t the first time Grohl has fired up the kitchen to give back to the community. In 2018, the Foo Fighters frontman fed the firefighters at Station 68 in Calabasas in the midst of their fight against the massive California wildfires that were raging at the time.

And, in 2021, in the midst of the pandemic, Grohl partnered with local San Fernando Valley restaurant Casa Vega to create the Foo Fighters Especial Combo Platter that would help raise money for No Us Without You LA. ensure food security for clandestine service personnel and their families.

“The process of making music is a lot like cooking for a crowd: you create a recipe as if it were a song.NO. You prepare a meal as if you were recording in a studio. And you serve it as if it were a live performance. When people come back to repeat, well, that’s your encore,” said the musician.

Civil Partnership Director, Hope of the Valley, Rowan Vansleve, shared a video recorded with Grohl as part of the “350 mile run” mission between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, which focuses on the homeless.

In it, Grohl spoke of being “deeply involved” in the mission, while Vansleve commented in the post, “In the midst of storms this week (referring to inclement weather). This is Dave Grohl cooking over 500 servings of the best barbecue for those who live in our shelters. this is class“.

Foo Fighters will continue to play

In late 2022, the band confirmed in a statement that they will continue following the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins in March of last year, telling fans they will be seeing them “soon.”

“As we say goodbye to the most difficult and tragic year our band has ever known, we remember how grateful we are for the people we love and appreciate the most., and for the loved ones who are no longer with us”. The publication of the group led by Dave Grohl, former drummer of Nirvana begins.

“Without Taylor, we would never have become the band we were, and without Taylor, we know we will be a different band moving forward,” the statement read. “We also know that you fans meant as much to Taylor as he did to you. And we know that when we see them again, and we will soon, he’ll be there in spirit with all of us every night.”

This was the band’s first public acknowledgment that it would continue without Hawkins, who died in March at the age of 50 while the band toured Colombia.