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Italian Market Food Tour, Sicilian Dinner & Book Discussion with Author Victoria Granof of Sicily, My Sweet

A special Sicilian culinary adventure awaits in the Italian Market this March! Sicily, My Sweet Book Discussion & Signing On Wednesday, March 19th, immerse yourself in a custom culinary experience in one of Philadelphia’s most beloved neighborhoods. First, you’ll be whisked on a guided food tour of the Italian Market led by Chef Jacquie Kelly of StrEATs of Philly Food Tours. Then, you’ll be…

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The Totality: Rihanna | ELLE Magazine

Let’s just call Rihanna what she is: the coolest woman on the planet—with beauty, talent, attitude, and personal style to spare. Here, the global megastar answers questions from a cross-section of her famous fans.

Somewhere between releasing her debut single “Pon de Replay” (to blitzkrieg effect) in 2005 and sitting down to discuss international education with Emmanuel Macron in 2017, Rihanna has become much more than a pop star. The music is still absolutely vital, yes—her eighth album, Anti, which has been kicking up dust on the dance charts since it dropped last year, was deemed by Forbes to be one of the most successful recordings of all time—but as an icon, she represents something far greater: what a woman can achieve when she tackles her career, and her life, on her own terms. Rihanna is always fearlessly, unapologetically herself, whether she’s making maverick fashion choices on the red carpet, calling out body shamers, or adding yet another unmistakably RiRi-stamped endeavor to her string of (singer-actress-designer-entrepreneur-philanthropist-etcetera-etcetera) hyphenates. We can now add beauty mogul to that list.

The singer has poured her uncompromising attitude into a much-awaited makeup line, Fenty Beauty by Rihanna, poised to launch with a big bang of 91 products on September 8 at Sephora (expect lines) and on the brand’s website (Internet = broken). Its focus, perhaps surprisingly from a practiced maquillage peacock who has been known to rock vivid blue and ink-black lipstick with defiant flair, is gleaming, satiny, flawless skin, built around an assortment of user-friendly highlighting and contouring sticks, and a whopping 40 shades of foundation. “The biggest void I’ve found in the industry is the lack of variety in foundation shades,” Rihanna tells us. “That’s one of the things that was most important to me—to make sure everyone was included.” It’s a nod, too, to the complexion-perfecting gateway drug that ushered the Barbados native into beauty in the first place: “Foundation was the first product I ever owned,” she says. “It was like magic, and I’ve been in love with makeup ever since.”

Avidly hands-on throughout the collection’s development, Rihanna helmed everything from the playful name selection (there’s a gold powder highlighter, for instance, dubbed Trophy Wife) to the packaging, which, like its creator, is multifaceted, with tough, graffiti-inspired outer boxes opening onto sleek, streamlined, sweetly pretty individual products. “There are plenty of options out there when it comes to makeup,” Rihanna says. “My approach with Fenty Beauty was just to do things my way.”

19 QUESTIONS FOR RIHANNA, FROM 20 OF HER FRIENDS AND FANS

Tyra Banks, Model/Entrepreneur: You’re so successful and surrounded by people who want to please you. Who gives it to you straight?

Rihanna: For me, it’s my mama. They all fake, LOL, and fired!

Eminem, Rapper: You don’t seem like you’re ever thinking about trends when you go in the studio, yet you end up setting them. What are you looking at when you start your recording process?

Rihanna: I rarely know exactly what I want to do, but always know exactly how I want it to make me feel. Feeling always leads the sound!

Wyclef Jean, Rapper: The last time I saw you was at the World Cup. If you could be any football player in the world, who would it be?

Rihanna: Cristiano Ronaldo. But then again, Beckham did marry Posh Spice.

Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia, Designers, Oscar de la Renta: What’s your best vintage find?

Rihanna: On New Year’s Eve, 2016, I bought this costume from 1952 that was worn in the movie Singin' in the Rain.

“Rihanna is today’s most fascinating performer, a mysterious amalgam of amiable warmth and glittering charisma. With her keen creative eye for line and color, she has become a fashion icon, like Audrey Hepburn. Yet she is a tempestuous wild child and international adventuress, like Ava Gardner. Most importantly, as an artist in this overmechanized age, she bravely draws on deep wells of pure emotion, endearing her to millions of fans worldwide.” —Camille Paglia,Author/Critic

Tricky Stewart, Record Producer: Do you remember the first time a crowd gave you goose bumps singing all the lyrics to your song in concert?

  Rihanna:  Yes! I was on tour, and the whole crowd started singing “Take a Bow” word for word…to the point that I couldn’t even sing. They performed the entire song for me.

April Bloomfield, Chef: What do you cook when you want a little comfort?

Rihanna: Bajan macaroni pie, which is our version of a baked mac ’n’ cheese.

Zac Posen, Designer: What’s your secret family recipe?

R:It’s a secret! LOL. But they make a mean “cook-up” and pepper pot. Both are Guyanese recipes.

Jacquie Aiche, Jewelry Designer: What’s your favorite body part?

R: Well, my favorite body parts on pretty much any woman are the collarbone and shoulders.

Charli XCX, Singer/Songwriter: What’s your ultimate karaoke song?

R: Bon Jovi, “Livin’ on a Prayer”; Journey, “Don’t Stop Believin’ ”; Brandy and Monica, “The Boy Is Mine.”

"Rihanna brings ‘global gumbo’ to the culture. Her voice unites the world through positive music vibes." —Wyclef Jean, Rapper 

Danielle Steel, Best-Selling Author: I love your shoe passion, especially your collaboration with Manolo Blahnik. How much of the designing do they let you do?

R; They really give me all the creative freedom I could ask for, but of course I have this unique opportunity to work with Mr. Blahnik himself, so his expertise is always more than welcome!

Kelly Fields, Chef (Willa Jean, New Orleans): Your preferences in fashion and art appear to embrace the entire scale of highbrow/lowbrow—which is how I like to cook. I’d love to know if your preferences in munchies run along that same scale?

R: You mean KFC on a private jet is not normal?

Laverne Cox, Actress: You’ve had so many iconic fashion moments and take so many risks. The CFDA Awards Adam Selman dress in 2014—what gave you the courage to take that risk that was so perfect and elegant yet daring?

R: Dear Laverne, I took advantage of my titties before they go south. I saw my window, and I took it.

Pharrell Williams, Musician/Producer: You’re a pluralist in every sense of the word. Did you always have these dreams to do so many things, in addition to being an artist? Or have you just figured that out along the way that there are other things you can do very well?

R: I’ve always been a dreamer…or let’s just say I kept my options open. In my heart, I knew singing was gonna be in my future, but I considered psychology, hairdressing, banking, teaching, acting, modeling, aviation, and philanthropy. I just didn’t know I’d pretty much be doing all of these things eventually!

Gary Ross, Director, Ocean’s 8: What’s the first thing I should do when I get to Barbados?

R: [Fast-food] Chefette and a rum punch!

"I love Rihanna. I love that she is herself with no apologies. Her sense of style and self is unique. I love how she transforms herself with each album, each campaign. Always evolving. A true icon." —Venus Williams, Tennis Champion

David Copperfield, Magician: I’m not kidding, this is a real offer: I can make you disappear and reappear anywhere in the world. Where do you want to go, and why?

R: Ten minutes before I lost my virginity…and I’m holding you to that offer. LOL.

Emilio Vitolo, Restauranteur (Emilio's Ballato, New York City): What’s the name of the soup dish that’s the most popular in our region of Italy?

R: It’s my favorite on your menu...pasta e fagioli.

A$AP Rocky, Rapper: Tupac, Bob Marley, and Time: Fuck? Marry? Kill?

Shit, well, we stay killing Time. Fuck Tupac. Marry Bob, duh.

Olivia Wilde, Actress: What’s the most valuable mistake you’ve learned from?

No cheese for Jay Brown before a flight.

Patricia Field, Stylist: Would you consider having a cocktail with me sometime in the near future? I’d like to get to know you better. (Not hitting on you.)

Your place or mine?

"Rihanna’s MTV 2016 VMA performances were groundbreaking, paradigm- shifting moments in female swag. She represents badassery, positive self-esteem, and in a great way. She is powerful and vulnerable simultaneously, which makes her a revolutionary. Yes, she’s sexy, but once she’s got your attention, I don’t think you can ignore what she’s saying to you: She is curated and deliberate without feeling staged, and her intent is as real as anything out there. I respond to her as a writer, a woman, and a fan.” —Courtney Kemp, Showrunner/Creator, Power (Starz)

HERE, RIHANNA'S INSIGHT AS THE PROPRIETOR OF FENTY BEAUTY

ELLE: When did you first wear lipstick?

         Lipstick always got me in trouble. Whether it was at home as a kid, or my early teenage years in my career, I always had the urge to wear it. So I broke all those rules. Now lipstick is like my li’l secret weapon!

What is the craziest thing you’ve ever done/tried for beauty? Would you do it again?

         A corset! I’d do it again, though. I’d wear it every day if I could make it out alive!

What makes you feel dressy/“done,” beautywise?

         My finishing touch is usually my highlighter. I love highlighter—it just adds this sense of fantasy to any look.

"What is incredible about Rihanna is that in a world facing a deadening crisis of leadership and the constant negation of creative efforts, her music globally moves and inspires us to be completely alive without restrictions or prohibitions." —Richard Phillips, Artist

Of all the celebrities you’ve met, who smells the best?

         [Photographers] Inez and Vinoodh! Inez smells delicious. She actually gifted me her scent, because I always asked her about it.

Who’s your hair idol?

         This is probably confusing to most, but it’s in between Toni Braxton from back in the day with all her short haircuts…and Cindy Crawford. She had the most effortless yet stunning hair.

Who’s your makeup idol?

         I have to go with Veruschka. She made makeup look like silk!

This article originally appears in the October 2017 issue of ELLE. [Buy]

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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Mako’s on the Creek was a relatively new posh, elegant restaurant in Cibolo that, along with places like Kindling Texas Kitchen, brought a unique savory sit-down offering otherwise not available for a growing Cibolo populous.

Mako’s was named a “Top 10 Best New Restaurants in San Antonio” in 2019, in the months following its opening June 12, 2019. The restaurant, five years in the making, was just beginning to establish its clientele. Word-of-mouth rave reviews produced nights of booked engagements for owners David and Jacquie Peterson.

Then … COVID-19.

“We didn’t really know what to think when COVID first hit,” David Peterson admitted. “We had some employees who were afraid to come to work, some absolutely refused to come to work. And there was really no guidance from the government or CDC at that time.”

But soon, business started to slow before directions came down — close dining rooms.

“We met as a family to decide what we wanted to do,” Peterson said, referring to his wife, co-owner Jacquie; general manager and son, Mitch; son Andrew; and daughter Kari. “The restaurant next door flat-out closed, they just shut their doors. A drive-thru option wasn’t really going to work for us, so conversation started about take-out and delivery.”

Mitch Peterson picked up on an idea he had seen elsewhere, pre-pandemic: a “Pay It Forward” concept where patrons can buy meals for any veteran or first responder.

“(Mitch) said, ‘Why don’t we do that with meals? Why don’t we do a ‘Pay It Forward’ meal?’” David Peterson said. “Our city’s first responders, our medical folks, were just getting slammed in those early COVID days. And nursing homes, their staffs were just getting crushed.

“So we had folks saying, ‘Hey, I can’t go see my family member in a nursing home, but I want to do something,’” he added.

That led to Mako’s launching its own “Pay It Forward” program. For $10, Mako’s offered a Gouda ranch salad, a hamburger, or a chicken sandwich, with a side, that the buyer could designate for a particular person or group of people.

“A customer could say, ‘Hey, here’s money, I want 20 meals to go to this hospital.’ Or, ‘here’s some money, I don’t care who it goes to, you figure it out,’” he said. “The vast majority were ‘you figure it out,’ so we talked to the various hospital systems and Mitch was on the phone with many different folks, trying to make it work.”

Months later, Mako’s had delivered more than $10,000 of its Pay It Forward meals to first responders, teachers, nursing home staff, and peoples’ doorsteps. The program continued through the peaks and valleys of the pandemic into the new year. Mako’s was beginning to develop a Pay It Forward fund to use at its discretion.

Then … “Snowvid.”

A smothering February snowstorm paralyzed virtually the entire state of Texas. People were without power and water for days, if not weeks. Travel was treacherous as temperatures dipped into the lower teens.

Early during the freeze, “when it was really hitting and sticking,” Peterson said, he received a call from Maggie Titterington, president of the Chamber of Schertz, Cibolo and Selma.

“She said Cibolo’s police, fire and EMS have no way to eat. They generally go to restaurants during their shifts, but everybody’s closed. Is there anything you can do?” Peterson recalled. “I had a cooler-full of food left from … canceled Valentines’ Day reservations, so I told her to count us in.”

He said he called the restaurant’s head chef, who lives in New Braunfels.

“I told him he wasn’t driving in, but I lived just a mile away in Cibolo,” Peterson said. “I told him I can make it to the restaurant. I’m going to put you on Zoom and we’re going to make something. (The chef) said, ‘Yeah, no problem,’ so it was a pretty simple meal, but it was enough to feed 75-80 folks.”

Mako’s used a glut of the Pay It Forward “you decide” funds to cover the cost.

“Instead of our regular Pay It Forward, we used some of the funds accumulated to that point, for that effort,” he said. “The people who gave us money in this program would be happy that we spent it that way. That’s our measure of merit; somebody gave us money to spend, would they be happy that we spent it the way we did?”

For their efforts, Peterson and Mako’s on the Creek were named recipients of Cibolo’s 2020 Gary Kelly Community Service Award. City Councilman Tim Woliver nominated the Petersons for the award and lauded them for their Pay It Forward success.

“Over $10,000 has been donated for over 1,000 meals that went to people in need … in the service industry, medical nursing communities, first responders,” Woliver stated during a May City Council meeting. “That impacted lives not only right here in Cibolo, but across the San Antonio area.”

The award is named for the late Gary Kelly, who was a community- and-civic-minded councilman and committee member.

Titterington applauded the selection of Mako’s for the award.

“I cannot think of a more deserving person or business that should receive this award,” she said. “When the pandemic first began was a very scary time for businesses, especially restaurants that were struggling, just to figure out how they were going to survive,” she said.

But instead, Mako’s turned its focus on helping the community.

“They are an outstanding chamber member, and I’ve known David for several years as he saw this restaurant from conception to reality,” Titterington said. “And just as your restaurant is starting to realize itself, to have it shut down by the COVID is almost unthinkable.”

But Mako’s went above and beyond, she said. While most businesses were trying to figure how to keep their doors open and employees, “They were thinking, ‘How can we help our community? How can we help our first responders,’” she said.

“I just congratulate Dave for receiving this award,” she added. “It is just so well-deserved.”

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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Mako’s on the Creek was a relatively new posh, elegant restaurant in Cibolo that, along with places like Kindling Texas Kitchen, brought a unique savory sit-down offering otherwise not available for a growing Cibolo populous.

Mako’s was named a “Top 10 Best New Restaurants in San Antonio” in 2019, in the months following its opening June 12, 2019. The restaurant, five years in the making, was just beginning to establish its clientele. Word-of-mouth rave reviews produced nights of booked engagements for owners David and Jacquie Peterson.

Then … COVID-19.

“We didn’t really know what to think when COVID first hit,” David Peterson admitted. “We had some employees who were afraid to come to work, some absolutely refused to come to work. And there was really no guidance from the government or CDC at that time.”

But soon, business started to slow before directions came down — close dining rooms.

“We met as a family to decide what we wanted to do,” Peterson said, referring to his wife, co-owner Jacquie; general manager and son, Mitch; son Andrew; and daughter Kari. “The restaurant next door flat-out closed, they just shut their doors. A drive-thru option wasn’t really going to work for us, so conversation started about take-out and delivery.”

Mitch Peterson picked up on an idea he had seen elsewhere, pre-pandemic: a “Pay It Forward” concept where patrons can buy meals for any veteran or first responder.

“(Mitch) said, ‘Why don’t we do that with meals? Why don’t we do a ‘Pay It Forward’ meal?’” David Peterson said. “Our city’s first responders, our medical folks, were just getting slammed in those early COVID days. And nursing homes, their staffs were just getting crushed.

“So we had folks saying, ‘Hey, I can’t go see my family member in a nursing home, but I want to do something,’” he added.

That led to Mako’s launching its own “Pay It Forward” program. For $10, Mako’s offered a Gouda ranch salad, a hamburger, or a chicken sandwich, with a side, that the buyer could designate for a particular person or group of people.

“A customer could say, ‘Hey, here’s money, I want 20 meals to go to this hospital.’ Or, ‘here’s some money, I don’t care who it goes to, you figure it out,’” he said. “The vast majority were ‘you figure it out,’ so we talked to the various hospital systems and Mitch was on the phone with many different folks, trying to make it work.”

Months later, Mako’s had delivered more than $10,000 of its Pay It Forward meals to first responders, teachers, nursing home staff, and peoples’ doorsteps. The program continued through the peaks and valleys of the pandemic into the new year. Mako’s was beginning to develop a Pay It Forward fund to use at its discretion.

Then … “Snowvid.”

A smothering February snowstorm paralyzed virtually the entire state of Texas. People were without power and water for days, if not weeks. Travel was treacherous as temperatures dipped into the lower teens.

Early during the freeze, “when it was really hitting and sticking,” Peterson said, he received a call from Maggie Titterington, president of the Chamber of Schertz, Cibolo and Selma.

“She said Cibolo’s police, fire and EMS have no way to eat. They generally go to restaurants during their shifts, but everybody’s closed. Is there anything you can do?” Peterson recalled. “I had a cooler-full of food left from … canceled Valentines’ Day reservations, so I told her to count us in.”

He said he called the restaurant’s head chef, who lives in New Braunfels.

“I told him he wasn’t driving in, but I lived just a mile away in Cibolo,” Peterson said. “I told him I can make it to the restaurant. I’m going to put you on Zoom and we’re going to make something. (The chef) said, ‘Yeah, no problem,’ so it was a pretty simple meal, but it was enough to feed 75-80 folks.”

Mako’s used a glut of the Pay It Forward “you decide” funds to cover the cost.

“Instead of our regular Pay It Forward, we used some of the funds accumulated to that point, for that effort,” he said. “The people who gave us money in this program would be happy that we spent it that way. That’s our measure of merit; somebody gave us money to spend, would they be happy that we spent it the way we did?”

For their efforts, Peterson and Mako’s on the Creek were named recipients of Cibolo’s 2020 Gary Kelly Community Service Award. City Councilman Tim Woliver nominated the Petersons for the award and lauded them for their Pay It Forward success.

“Over $10,000 has been donated for over 1,000 meals that went to people in need … in the service industry, medical nursing communities, first responders,” Woliver stated during a May City Council meeting. “That impacted lives not only right here in Cibolo, but across the San Antonio area.”

The award is named for the late Gary Kelly, who was a community- and-civic-minded councilman and committee member.

Titterington applauded the selection of Mako’s for the award.

“I cannot think of a more deserving person or business that should receive this award,” she said. “When the pandemic first began was a very scary time for businesses, especially restaurants that were struggling, just to figure out how they were going to survive,” she said.

But instead, Mako’s turned its focus on helping the community.

“They are an outstanding chamber member, and I’ve known David for several years as he saw this restaurant from conception to reality,” Titterington said. “And just as your restaurant is starting to realize itself, to have it shut down by the COVID is almost unthinkable.”

But Mako’s went above and beyond, she said. While most businesses were trying to figure how to keep their doors open and employees, “They were thinking, ‘How can we help our community? How can we help our first responders,’” she said.

“I just congratulate Dave for receiving this award,” she added. “It is just so well-deserved.”

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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Mako’s on the Creek was a relatively new posh, elegant restaurant in Cibolo that, along with places like Kindling Texas Kitchen, brought a unique savory sit-down offering otherwise not available for a growing Cibolo populous.

Mako’s was named a “Top 10 Best New Restaurants in San Antonio” in 2019, in the months following its opening June 12, 2019. The restaurant, five years in the making, was just beginning to establish its clientele. Word-of-mouth rave reviews produced nights of booked engagements for owners David and Jacquie Peterson.

Then … COVID-19.

“We didn’t really know what to think when COVID first hit,” David Peterson admitted. “We had some employees who were afraid to come to work, some absolutely refused to come to work. And there was really no guidance from the government or CDC at that time.”

But soon, business started to slow before directions came down — close dining rooms.

“We met as a family to decide what we wanted to do,” Peterson said, referring to his wife, co-owner Jacquie; general manager and son, Mitch; son Andrew; and daughter Kari. “The restaurant next door flat-out closed, they just shut their doors. A drive-thru option wasn’t really going to work for us, so conversation started about take-out and delivery.”

Mitch Peterson picked up on an idea he had seen elsewhere, pre-pandemic: a “Pay It Forward” concept where patrons can buy meals for any veteran or first responder.

“(Mitch) said, ‘Why don’t we do that with meals? Why don’t we do a ‘Pay It Forward’ meal?’” David Peterson said. “Our city’s first responders, our medical folks, were just getting slammed in those early COVID days. And nursing homes, their staffs were just getting crushed.

“So we had folks saying, ‘Hey, I can’t go see my family member in a nursing home, but I want to do something,’” he added.

That led to Mako’s launching its own “Pay It Forward” program. For $10, Mako’s offered a Gouda ranch salad, a hamburger, or a chicken sandwich, with a side, that the buyer could designate for a particular person or group of people.

“A customer could say, ‘Hey, here’s money, I want 20 meals to go to this hospital.’ Or, ‘here’s some money, I don’t care who it goes to, you figure it out,’” he said. “The vast majority were ‘you figure it out,’ so we talked to the various hospital systems and Mitch was on the phone with many different folks, trying to make it work.”

Months later, Mako’s had delivered more than $10,000 of its Pay It Forward meals to first responders, teachers, nursing home staff, and peoples’ doorsteps. The program continued through the peaks and valleys of the pandemic into the new year. Mako’s was beginning to develop a Pay It Forward fund to use at its discretion.

Then … “Snowvid.”

A smothering February snowstorm paralyzed virtually the entire state of Texas. People were without power and water for days, if not weeks. Travel was treacherous as temperatures dipped into the lower teens.

Early during the freeze, “when it was really hitting and sticking,” Peterson said, he received a call from Maggie Titterington, president of the Chamber of Schertz, Cibolo and Selma.

“She said Cibolo’s police, fire and EMS have no way to eat. They generally go to restaurants during their shifts, but everybody’s closed. Is there anything you can do?” Peterson recalled. “I had a cooler-full of food left from … canceled Valentines’ Day reservations, so I told her to count us in.”

He said he called the restaurant’s head chef, who lives in New Braunfels.

“I told him he wasn’t driving in, but I lived just a mile away in Cibolo,” Peterson said. “I told him I can make it to the restaurant. I’m going to put you on Zoom and we’re going to make something. (The chef) said, ‘Yeah, no problem,’ so it was a pretty simple meal, but it was enough to feed 75-80 folks.”

Mako’s used a glut of the Pay It Forward “you decide” funds to cover the cost.

“Instead of our regular Pay It Forward, we used some of the funds accumulated to that point, for that effort,” he said. “The people who gave us money in this program would be happy that we spent it that way. That’s our measure of merit; somebody gave us money to spend, would they be happy that we spent it the way we did?”

For their efforts, Peterson and Mako’s on the Creek were named recipients of Cibolo’s 2020 Gary Kelly Community Service Award. City Councilman Tim Woliver nominated the Petersons for the award and lauded them for their Pay It Forward success.

“Over $10,000 has been donated for over 1,000 meals that went to people in need … in the service industry, medical nursing communities, first responders,” Woliver stated during a May City Council meeting. “That impacted lives not only right here in Cibolo, but across the San Antonio area.”

The award is named for the late Gary Kelly, who was a community- and-civic-minded councilman and committee member.

Titterington applauded the selection of Mako’s for the award.

“I cannot think of a more deserving person or business that should receive this award,” she said. “When the pandemic first began was a very scary time for businesses, especially restaurants that were struggling, just to figure out how they were going to survive,” she said.

But instead, Mako’s turned its focus on helping the community.

“They are an outstanding chamber member, and I’ve known David for several years as he saw this restaurant from conception to reality,” Titterington said. “And just as your restaurant is starting to realize itself, to have it shut down by the COVID is almost unthinkable.”

But Mako’s went above and beyond, she said. While most businesses were trying to figure how to keep their doors open and employees, “They were thinking, ‘How can we help our community? How can we help our first responders,’” she said.

“I just congratulate Dave for receiving this award,” she added. “It is just so well-deserved.”

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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Mako’s on the Creek was a relatively new posh, elegant restaurant in Cibolo that, along with places like Kindling Texas Kitchen, brought a unique savory sit-down offering otherwise not available for a growing Cibolo populous.

Mako’s was named a “Top 10 Best New Restaurants in San Antonio” in 2019, in the months following its opening June 12, 2019. The restaurant, five years in the making, was just beginning to establish its clientele. Word-of-mouth rave reviews produced nights of booked engagements for owners David and Jacquie Peterson.

Then … COVID-19.

“We didn’t really know what to think when COVID first hit,” David Peterson admitted. “We had some employees who were afraid to come to work, some absolutely refused to come to work. And there was really no guidance from the government or CDC at that time.”

But soon, business started to slow before directions came down — close dining rooms.

“We met as a family to decide what we wanted to do,” Peterson said, referring to his wife, co-owner Jacquie; general manager and son, Mitch; son Andrew; and daughter Kari. “The restaurant next door flat-out closed, they just shut their doors. A drive-thru option wasn’t really going to work for us, so conversation started about take-out and delivery.”

Mitch Peterson picked up on an idea he had seen elsewhere, pre-pandemic: a “Pay It Forward” concept where patrons can buy meals for any veteran or first responder.

“(Mitch) said, ‘Why don’t we do that with meals? Why don’t we do a ‘Pay It Forward’ meal?’” David Peterson said. “Our city’s first responders, our medical folks, were just getting slammed in those early COVID days. And nursing homes, their staffs were just getting crushed.

“So we had folks saying, ‘Hey, I can’t go see my family member in a nursing home, but I want to do something,’” he added.

That led to Mako’s launching its own “Pay It Forward” program. For $10, Mako’s offered a Gouda ranch salad, a hamburger, or a chicken sandwich, with a side, that the buyer could designate for a particular person or group of people.

“A customer could say, ‘Hey, here’s money, I want 20 meals to go to this hospital.’ Or, ‘here’s some money, I don’t care who it goes to, you figure it out,’” he said. “The vast majority were ‘you figure it out,’ so we talked to the various hospital systems and Mitch was on the phone with many different folks, trying to make it work.”

Months later, Mako’s had delivered more than $10,000 of its Pay It Forward meals to first responders, teachers, nursing home staff, and peoples’ doorsteps. The program continued through the peaks and valleys of the pandemic into the new year. Mako’s was beginning to develop a Pay It Forward fund to use at its discretion.

Then … “Snowvid.”

A smothering February snowstorm paralyzed virtually the entire state of Texas. People were without power and water for days, if not weeks. Travel was treacherous as temperatures dipped into the lower teens.

Early during the freeze, “when it was really hitting and sticking,” Peterson said, he received a call from Maggie Titterington, president of the Chamber of Schertz, Cibolo and Selma.

“She said Cibolo’s police, fire and EMS have no way to eat. They generally go to restaurants during their shifts, but everybody’s closed. Is there anything you can do?” Peterson recalled. “I had a cooler-full of food left from … canceled Valentines’ Day reservations, so I told her to count us in.”

He said he called the restaurant’s head chef, who lives in New Braunfels.

“I told him he wasn’t driving in, but I lived just a mile away in Cibolo,” Peterson said. “I told him I can make it to the restaurant. I’m going to put you on Zoom and we’re going to make something. (The chef) said, ‘Yeah, no problem,’ so it was a pretty simple meal, but it was enough to feed 75-80 folks.”

Mako’s used a glut of the Pay It Forward “you decide” funds to cover the cost.

“Instead of our regular Pay It Forward, we used some of the funds accumulated to that point, for that effort,” he said. “The people who gave us money in this program would be happy that we spent it that way. That’s our measure of merit; somebody gave us money to spend, would they be happy that we spent it the way we did?”

For their efforts, Peterson and Mako’s on the Creek were named recipients of Cibolo’s 2020 Gary Kelly Community Service Award. City Councilman Tim Woliver nominated the Petersons for the award and lauded them for their Pay It Forward success.

“Over $10,000 has been donated for over 1,000 meals that went to people in need … in the service industry, medical nursing communities, first responders,” Woliver stated during a May City Council meeting. “That impacted lives not only right here in Cibolo, but across the San Antonio area.”

The award is named for the late Gary Kelly, who was a community- and-civic-minded councilman and committee member.

Titterington applauded the selection of Mako’s for the award.

“I cannot think of a more deserving person or business that should receive this award,” she said. “When the pandemic first began was a very scary time for businesses, especially restaurants that were struggling, just to figure out how they were going to survive,” she said.

But instead, Mako’s turned its focus on helping the community.

“They are an outstanding chamber member, and I’ve known David for several years as he saw this restaurant from conception to reality,” Titterington said. “And just as your restaurant is starting to realize itself, to have it shut down by the COVID is almost unthinkable.”

But Mako’s went above and beyond, she said. While most businesses were trying to figure how to keep their doors open and employees, “They were thinking, ‘How can we help our community? How can we help our first responders,’” she said.

“I just congratulate Dave for receiving this award,” she added. “It is just so well-deserved.”

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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Mako’s on the Creek was a relatively new posh, elegant restaurant in Cibolo that, along with places like Kindling Texas Kitchen, brought a unique savory sit-down offering otherwise not available for a growing Cibolo populous.

Mako’s was named a “Top 10 Best New Restaurants in San Antonio” in 2019, in the months following its opening June 12, 2019. The restaurant, five years in the making, was just beginning to establish its clientele. Word-of-mouth rave reviews produced nights of booked engagements for owners David and Jacquie Peterson.

Then … COVID-19.

“We didn’t really know what to think when COVID first hit,” David Peterson admitted. “We had some employees who were afraid to come to work, some absolutely refused to come to work. And there was really no guidance from the government or CDC at that time.”

But soon, business started to slow before directions came down — close dining rooms.

“We met as a family to decide what we wanted to do,” Peterson said, referring to his wife, co-owner Jacquie; general manager and son, Mitch; son Andrew; and daughter Kari. “The restaurant next door flat-out closed, they just shut their doors. A drive-thru option wasn’t really going to work for us, so conversation started about take-out and delivery.”

Mitch Peterson picked up on an idea he had seen elsewhere, pre-pandemic: a “Pay It Forward” concept where patrons can buy meals for any veteran or first responder.

“(Mitch) said, ‘Why don’t we do that with meals? Why don’t we do a ‘Pay It Forward’ meal?’” David Peterson said. “Our city’s first responders, our medical folks, were just getting slammed in those early COVID days. And nursing homes, their staffs were just getting crushed.

“So we had folks saying, ‘Hey, I can’t go see my family member in a nursing home, but I want to do something,’” he added.

That led to Mako’s launching its own “Pay It Forward” program. For $10, Mako’s offered a Gouda ranch salad, a hamburger, or a chicken sandwich, with a side, that the buyer could designate for a particular person or group of people.

“A customer could say, ‘Hey, here’s money, I want 20 meals to go to this hospital.’ Or, ‘here’s some money, I don’t care who it goes to, you figure it out,’” he said. “The vast majority were ‘you figure it out,’ so we talked to the various hospital systems and Mitch was on the phone with many different folks, trying to make it work.”

Months later, Mako’s had delivered more than $10,000 of its Pay It Forward meals to first responders, teachers, nursing home staff, and peoples’ doorsteps. The program continued through the peaks and valleys of the pandemic into the new year. Mako’s was beginning to develop a Pay It Forward fund to use at its discretion.

Then … “Snowvid.”

A smothering February snowstorm paralyzed virtually the entire state of Texas. People were without power and water for days, if not weeks. Travel was treacherous as temperatures dipped into the lower teens.

Early during the freeze, “when it was really hitting and sticking,” Peterson said, he received a call from Maggie Titterington, president of the Chamber of Schertz, Cibolo and Selma.

“She said Cibolo’s police, fire and EMS have no way to eat. They generally go to restaurants during their shifts, but everybody’s closed. Is there anything you can do?” Peterson recalled. “I had a cooler-full of food left from … canceled Valentines’ Day reservations, so I told her to count us in.”

He said he called the restaurant’s head chef, who lives in New Braunfels.

“I told him he wasn’t driving in, but I lived just a mile away in Cibolo,” Peterson said. “I told him I can make it to the restaurant. I’m going to put you on Zoom and we’re going to make something. (The chef) said, ‘Yeah, no problem,’ so it was a pretty simple meal, but it was enough to feed 75-80 folks.”

Mako’s used a glut of the Pay It Forward “you decide” funds to cover the cost.

“Instead of our regular Pay It Forward, we used some of the funds accumulated to that point, for that effort,” he said. “The people who gave us money in this program would be happy that we spent it that way. That’s our measure of merit; somebody gave us money to spend, would they be happy that we spent it the way we did?”

For their efforts, Peterson and Mako’s on the Creek were named recipients of Cibolo’s 2020 Gary Kelly Community Service Award. City Councilman Tim Woliver nominated the Petersons for the award and lauded them for their Pay It Forward success.

“Over $10,000 has been donated for over 1,000 meals that went to people in need … in the service industry, medical nursing communities, first responders,” Woliver stated during a May City Council meeting. “That impacted lives not only right here in Cibolo, but across the San Antonio area.”

The award is named for the late Gary Kelly, who was a community- and-civic-minded councilman and committee member.

Titterington applauded the selection of Mako’s for the award.

“I cannot think of a more deserving person or business that should receive this award,” she said. “When the pandemic first began was a very scary time for businesses, especially restaurants that were struggling, just to figure out how they were going to survive,” she said.

But instead, Mako’s turned its focus on helping the community.

“They are an outstanding chamber member, and I’ve known David for several years as he saw this restaurant from conception to reality,” Titterington said. “And just as your restaurant is starting to realize itself, to have it shut down by the COVID is almost unthinkable.”

But Mako’s went above and beyond, she said. While most businesses were trying to figure how to keep their doors open and employees, “They were thinking, ‘How can we help our community? How can we help our first responders,’” she said.

“I just congratulate Dave for receiving this award,” she added. “It is just so well-deserved.”

jflinn@express-news.net

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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Mako’s on the Creek was a relatively new posh, elegant restaurant in Cibolo that, along with places like Kindling Texas Kitchen, brought a unique savory sit-down offering otherwise not available for a growing Cibolo populous.

Mako’s was named a “Top 10 Best New Restaurants in San Antonio” in 2019, in the months following its opening June 12, 2019. The restaurant, five years in the making, was just beginning to establish its clientele. Word-of-mouth rave reviews produced nights of booked engagements for owners David and Jacquie Peterson.

Then … COVID-19.

“We didn’t really know what to think when COVID first hit,” David Peterson admitted. “We had some employees who were afraid to come to work, some absolutely refused to come to work. And there was really no guidance from the government or CDC at that time.”

But soon, business started to slow before directions came down — close dining rooms.

“We met as a family to decide what we wanted to do,” Peterson said, referring to his wife, co-owner Jacquie; general manager and son, Mitch; son Andrew; and daughter Kari. “The restaurant next door flat-out closed, they just shut their doors. A drive-thru option wasn’t really going to work for us, so conversation started about take-out and delivery.”

Mitch Peterson picked up on an idea he had seen elsewhere, pre-pandemic: a “Pay It Forward” concept where patrons can buy meals for any veteran or first responder.

“(Mitch) said, ‘Why don’t we do that with meals? Why don’t we do a ‘Pay It Forward’ meal?’” David Peterson said. “Our city’s first responders, our medical folks, were just getting slammed in those early COVID days. And nursing homes, their staffs were just getting crushed.

“So we had folks saying, ‘Hey, I can’t go see my family member in a nursing home, but I want to do something,’” he added.

That led to Mako’s launching its own “Pay It Forward” program. For $10, Mako’s offered a Gouda ranch salad, a hamburger, or a chicken sandwich, with a side, that the buyer could designate for a particular person or group of people.

“A customer could say, ‘Hey, here’s money, I want 20 meals to go to this hospital.’ Or, ‘here’s some money, I don’t care who it goes to, you figure it out,’” he said. “The vast majority were ‘you figure it out,’ so we talked to the various hospital systems and Mitch was on the phone with many different folks, trying to make it work.”

Months later, Mako’s had delivered more than $10,000 of its Pay It Forward meals to first responders, teachers, nursing home staff, and peoples’ doorsteps. The program continued through the peaks and valleys of the pandemic into the new year. Mako’s was beginning to develop a Pay It Forward fund to use at its discretion.

Then … “Snowvid.”

A smothering February snowstorm paralyzed virtually the entire state of Texas. People were without power and water for days, if not weeks. Travel was treacherous as temperatures dipped into the lower teens.

Early during the freeze, “when it was really hitting and sticking,” Peterson said, he received a call from Maggie Titterington, president of the Chamber of Schertz, Cibolo and Selma.

“She said Cibolo’s police, fire and EMS have no way to eat. They generally go to restaurants during their shifts, but everybody’s closed. Is there anything you can do?” Peterson recalled. “I had a cooler-full of food left from … canceled Valentines’ Day reservations, so I told her to count us in.”

He said he called the restaurant’s head chef, who lives in New Braunfels.

“I told him he wasn’t driving in, but I lived just a mile away in Cibolo,” Peterson said. “I told him I can make it to the restaurant. I’m going to put you on Zoom and we’re going to make something. (The chef) said, ‘Yeah, no problem,’ so it was a pretty simple meal, but it was enough to feed 75-80 folks.”

Mako’s used a glut of the Pay It Forward “you decide” funds to cover the cost.

“Instead of our regular Pay It Forward, we used some of the funds accumulated to that point, for that effort,” he said. “The people who gave us money in this program would be happy that we spent it that way. That’s our measure of merit; somebody gave us money to spend, would they be happy that we spent it the way we did?”

For their efforts, Peterson and Mako’s on the Creek were named recipients of Cibolo’s 2020 Gary Kelly Community Service Award. City Councilman Tim Woliver nominated the Petersons for the award and lauded them for their Pay It Forward success.

“Over $10,000 has been donated for over 1,000 meals that went to people in need … in the service industry, medical nursing communities, first responders,” Woliver stated during a May City Council meeting. “That impacted lives not only right here in Cibolo, but across the San Antonio area.”

The award is named for the late Gary Kelly, who was a community- and-civic-minded councilman and committee member.

Titterington applauded the selection of Mako’s for the award.

“I cannot think of a more deserving person or business that should receive this award,” she said. “When the pandemic first began was a very scary time for businesses, especially restaurants that were struggling, just to figure out how they were going to survive,” she said.

But instead, Mako’s turned its focus on helping the community.

“They are an outstanding chamber member, and I’ve known David for several years as he saw this restaurant from conception to reality,” Titterington said. “And just as your restaurant is starting to realize itself, to have it shut down by the COVID is almost unthinkable.”

But Mako’s went above and beyond, she said. While most businesses were trying to figure how to keep their doors open and employees, “They were thinking, ‘How can we help our community? How can we help our first responders,’” she said.

“I just congratulate Dave for receiving this award,” she added. “It is just so well-deserved.”

jflinn@express-news.net

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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Mako’s on the Creek was a relatively new posh, elegant restaurant in Cibolo that, along with places like Kindling Texas Kitchen, brought a unique savory sit-down offering otherwise not available for a growing Cibolo populous.

Mako’s was named a “Top 10 Best New Restaurants in San Antonio” in 2019, in the months following its opening June 12, 2019. The restaurant, five years in the making, was just beginning to establish its clientele. Word-of-mouth rave reviews produced nights of booked engagements for owners David and Jacquie Peterson.

Then … COVID-19.

“We didn’t really know what to think when COVID first hit,” David Peterson admitted. “We had some employees who were afraid to come to work, some absolutely refused to come to work. And there was really no guidance from the government or CDC at that time.”

But soon, business started to slow before directions came down — close dining rooms.

“We met as a family to decide what we wanted to do,” Peterson said, referring to his wife, co-owner Jacquie; general manager and son, Mitch; son Andrew; and daughter Kari. “The restaurant next door flat-out closed, they just shut their doors. A drive-thru option wasn’t really going to work for us, so conversation started about take-out and delivery.”

Mitch Peterson picked up on an idea he had seen elsewhere, pre-pandemic: a “Pay It Forward” concept where patrons can buy meals for any veteran or first responder.

“(Mitch) said, ‘Why don’t we do that with meals? Why don’t we do a ‘Pay It Forward’ meal?’” David Peterson said. “Our city’s first responders, our medical folks, were just getting slammed in those early COVID days. And nursing homes, their staffs were just getting crushed.

“So we had folks saying, ‘Hey, I can’t go see my family member in a nursing home, but I want to do something,’” he added.

That led to Mako’s launching its own “Pay It Forward” program. For $10, Mako’s offered a Gouda ranch salad, a hamburger, or a chicken sandwich, with a side, that the buyer could designate for a particular person or group of people.

“A customer could say, ‘Hey, here’s money, I want 20 meals to go to this hospital.’ Or, ‘here’s some money, I don’t care who it goes to, you figure it out,’” he said. “The vast majority were ‘you figure it out,’ so we talked to the various hospital systems and Mitch was on the phone with many different folks, trying to make it work.”

Months later, Mako’s had delivered more than $10,000 of its Pay It Forward meals to first responders, teachers, nursing home staff, and peoples’ doorsteps. The program continued through the peaks and valleys of the pandemic into the new year. Mako’s was beginning to develop a Pay It Forward fund to use at its discretion.

Then … “Snowvid.”

A smothering February snowstorm paralyzed virtually the entire state of Texas. People were without power and water for days, if not weeks. Travel was treacherous as temperatures dipped into the lower teens.

Early during the freeze, “when it was really hitting and sticking,” Peterson said, he received a call from Maggie Titterington, president of the Chamber of Schertz, Cibolo and Selma.

“She said Cibolo’s police, fire and EMS have no way to eat. They generally go to restaurants during their shifts, but everybody’s closed. Is there anything you can do?” Peterson recalled. “I had a cooler-full of food left from … canceled Valentines’ Day reservations, so I told her to count us in.”

He said he called the restaurant’s head chef, who lives in New Braunfels.

“I told him he wasn’t driving in, but I lived just a mile away in Cibolo,” Peterson said. “I told him I can make it to the restaurant. I’m going to put you on Zoom and we’re going to make something. (The chef) said, ‘Yeah, no problem,’ so it was a pretty simple meal, but it was enough to feed 75-80 folks.”

Mako’s used a glut of the Pay It Forward “you decide” funds to cover the cost.

“Instead of our regular Pay It Forward, we used some of the funds accumulated to that point, for that effort,” he said. “The people who gave us money in this program would be happy that we spent it that way. That’s our measure of merit; somebody gave us money to spend, would they be happy that we spent it the way we did?”

For their efforts, Peterson and Mako’s on the Creek were named recipients of Cibolo’s 2020 Gary Kelly Community Service Award. City Councilman Tim Woliver nominated the Petersons for the award and lauded them for their Pay It Forward success.

“Over $10,000 has been donated for over 1,000 meals that went to people in need … in the service industry, medical nursing communities, first responders,” Woliver stated during a May City Council meeting. “That impacted lives not only right here in Cibolo, but across the San Antonio area.”

The award is named for the late Gary Kelly, who was a community- and-civic-minded councilman and committee member.

Titterington applauded the selection of Mako’s for the award.

“I cannot think of a more deserving person or business that should receive this award,” she said. “When the pandemic first began was a very scary time for businesses, especially restaurants that were struggling, just to figure out how they were going to survive,” she said.

But instead, Mako’s turned its focus on helping the community.

“They are an outstanding chamber member, and I’ve known David for several years as he saw this restaurant from conception to reality,” Titterington said. “And just as your restaurant is starting to realize itself, to have it shut down by the COVID is almost unthinkable.”

But Mako’s went above and beyond, she said. While most businesses were trying to figure how to keep their doors open and employees, “They were thinking, ‘How can we help our community? How can we help our first responders,’” she said.

“I just congratulate Dave for receiving this award,” she added. “It is just so well-deserved.”

jflinn@express-news.net

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