NBC Chef Gets Love From ?uestlove

Aww. Roots drummer ?uestlove, who questioned the menu choices of NBC's cafeteria in celebration of Black History Month (fried chicken, collard greens, black-eyed peas)... has made peace with chef Leslie Calhoun. She defended her menu after the Twitpic he took of it made it all the way to the Jay Leno show, and now ?uestlove says: "just so yall dont think that im all talk. i presented leslie in our kitchen with flowers and an extremely sizable gift certificate spa treatment with the works."

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on February 6, 2010 5:20 PM

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Professor_X

When I saw that pic, I thought it was the worst wedding pic ever.

I feel much better after having read the article, and knowing that they are just pals.

NannyState

LOL, ?uestlove eats at a cafeteria.

MrManhattan

Wow, and to think when my Italian mother made corn beef and cabbage for St. Patrick's day, all my Irish dad did was get drunk and give her a beating!

(KIDDING! Still happily married after 50 years!)

sharpshoota

Met him before. Classless piece of ....

Kelles

Ugh. hairnet, please?

Rocknrope

What, you don't like Soul Glow in your baked ziti?

Tien

Seriously! Where's his hairnet!

NannyState

Where's his big comb?

inoyourider

This sack of shit owes EVERYONE an apology, not just her.

If this chef were white, she'd e fired and publicly humiliated.

Instead, she's black and gets a bouquet and a "sizable gift certificate".

Seriously, he used the word sizable when describing a gift he GAVE?

No class.

handsomedevil

"This sack of shit owes EVERYONE an apology, not just her."

Now, seriously. How do you figure. What does it actually have to do with you.

"If this chef were white..."

No, seriously, does this have ANYTHING to do with you? Didn't think so. Even if he did complain about an imaginary white chef who served the same menu, it STILL wouldn't have anything to do with you.

inoyourider

For wasting my time with this stupid bullshit.

He should have just been a man and asked to speak to the chef in the first place, not a bitch and go on Twitter.

henryhamilton

White people are so helpful. Especially the self-appointed racism police. Good looking out Sylvester. Much ado about nothing, and you drag this famous guy into it. Now he looks like a dick. Malcom X had it right. White people are of no use in the struggle. Especially well-intentioned, "enlightened" types. The most useless kind.

inoyourider

Don't worry we'll stop being enlightened and start cutting affirmative action, EOE, and welfare.

This political correctness 'social reparation' thing is near it's end.

See how far you get in your struggle then.

handsomedevil

Eh, don't worry - being an "enlightened type" is out of fashion these days. Now that we've got a black president who never acts black whites are pretty comfortable expressing their lack of patience with the whole issue of race.

And who is this Malcolm the 10th you speak of?

NycChick

Sonnybobbie

I don't get it either.

SonnyBobiche

Come on! We all know that everyone thought that it was an insentive, at best, or racist, at worst, white person. To this guy's enbarrassment it turns out to a black woman, Oops! That's OK then.

SeasTooFarToReach

How come I only found out about this juicy story just this morning?! [sarcasm]

I'm happy he made peace. Just in case someone over there decided to fire her, based on an overreaction.

Well, someone may had considered firing her, had she been white.