{"id":9909,"date":"2023-03-08T10:36:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/?p=9909"},"modified":"2023-03-08T12:47:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T17:47:21","slug":"dave-grohl-barbecues-and-serves-meals-at-la-homeless-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2023\/03\/dave-grohl-barbecues-and-serves-meals-at-la-homeless-shelter.html","title":{"rendered":"Dave Grohl Barbecues and Serves Meals at LA Homeless Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9927\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/89\/2023\/03\/dave-grohl_credit-Hope-For-Mission-Facebook-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9927\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/89\/2023\/03\/dave-grohl_credit-Hope-For-Mission-Facebook-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hope of the Valley Rescue Mission \/ Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl is a rockstar on and off the stage. He showed off his cooking skills in photos that have gone viral of him volunteering for a homeless organization. Several images of Grohl working in a kitchen at the Hope The Mission in Los Angeles circulated over social media. However, a detailed tweet from writer Liz Allman Seccuro got the most attention.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote, &#8220;So, without telling anyone, Dave Grohl brought his giant smoker and cooked\/fed barbecue and sides for 500 folks at Hope Mission in L.A. during the storms. Paid for it all.\u00a0Worked 16 hours. So, when the aliens get here and ask, &#8216;who&#8217;s in charge?&#8217; I think we take them to Dave Grohl.&#8221; Several other Twitter users shared Seccuro&#8217;s tweet and praise for Grohl&#8217;s volunteer work.<\/p>\n<p>Additional sources reported that\u00a0the former Nirvana drummer\u00a0arrived around midnight with a massive smoker trailer to prepare several meals at the Trebek Center, a skating rink turned homeless shelter that the late\u00a0Alex Trebek\u00a0supported. The singer reportedly worked for over 24 hours cooking food while periodically taking naps in the parking lot in between smoking meats.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">So, without telling anyone, Dave Grohl brought his giant smoker and cooked\/fed barbecue and sides for 500 folks at Hope Mission in L.A. during the storms. Paid for it all. Worked 16 hours. So, when the aliens get here and ask \u201cwho\u2019s in charge?\u201d, I think we take them to Dave\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CFIH4GOsfb\">https:\/\/t.co\/CFIH4GOsfb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6BrUqjsgA6\">pic.twitter.com\/6BrUqjsgA6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liz Allman Seccuro (@LizSeccuro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LizSeccuro\/status\/1630643223780794370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hope the Mission president and CFO Rowan Vansleve later posted a video of Grohl on his Instagram page while also\u00a0praising the musician\u00a0for his help. Vansleve wrote, &#8220;And in the middle of our 350-mile run to end homelessness, we got the coolest video ever from Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters. Not only did I wish us luck, but he cooked for hundreds of people who live in our shelters in the middle of one of the worst storms. Nothing but love and respect for Dave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The run, which was going on while Grohl grilled, was an effort to fundraise $350,000 so the organization could open three shelters and offer more than 700 beds for unhoused families. Grohl sent Craft and Vansleve a message of encouragement on their trek, which the CFO shared on Instagram. &#8220;You&#8217;re all in, we&#8217;re all in,&#8221; Grohl says in the video, along with more supportive comments.<\/p>\n<p>While his passion for grilling may surprise fans, Grohl thinks it is a natural interest. &#8220;Most musicians are obsessive-compulsive weirdos, whether it&#8217;s the instrument they play, or an arrangement, or composition,&#8221; he said in a\u00a0<em>Bon App\u00e9tit<\/em>\u00a0article in 2018. &#8220;You&#8217;re always trying to one-up the thing you&#8217;ve just done, or perfect it, or get to the place where you&#8217;re playing your instrument, but you&#8217;re not actually thinking about it. It&#8217;s kind of the same with food. The parallels are insane.&#8221; In 2018, Grohl also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/content\/2018-11-13-dave-grohl-brings-barbecue-to-southern-california-firefighters\/\">served barbecue to firefighters<\/a>\u00a0battling fires in Malibu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl is a rockstar on and off the stage. He showed off his cooking skills in photos that have gone viral of him volunteering for a homeless organization. Several images of Grohl working in a kitchen at the Hope The Mission in Los Angeles circulated over social media. 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