Monday, March 17, 2008

Ok, so I'm a control freak

But seriously, I have to add my comments and corrections to our article that appeared in today's Herald. For the most part, we enjoyed reading it, but here and there reading it was like taking a punch right in the stomach. I think we were misunderstood--understandable I suppose, happens a lot. So . . . here are my Herald corrections! ---

1. Tony's last name is MANDEVILLE, not Madebille, nor Mandebille.
2. While it's true that Jen & Eric's wedding was one of bula's first catering gigs, and definately its first catered wedding (and oh, there's a story if you want to hear it sometime), Jen never worked for bula. She is our manager here @ Salt and a good friend of Brad and Laurie.
3. Ok, really, do you actually think we were like, ok, so what should we name it? I dunno, hmmmmm Salt? Well ok cause what else will we call it? A pub name needs to be simple and easy to remember, the word Salt, being the essense of the culinary world seemed to be fitting, short and sweet and a little cool. We like it. There really WAS A THOUGHT PROCESS!!!! We were totally misquoted so many times in this article. Argh.
4. 76er's was never a diner.
5. THE BIGGEST MISQUOTE WAS: "WE WANT TO BE CHEERS" That was our punch in the stomach. Specifically what Brad said was: We DO NOT want to come across as we are trying to be Cheers." In fact whenever folks ask Brad what Salt is all about, over and over again I hear him say, "we don't want people to think we are trying to be like Cheers." How did this reporter hear the exact opposite!!!!!!!!!!!!??????????
6. I do not proclaim to know what the owner's of the first-ever gastropub, The Eagle, in London were thinking when they opened it. But what I do know is that they were the first ones and they wanted the focus to be on food.
7. Don't we look dang happy in that picture? We are, cause today the septic system is being put in the ground and now we know that within 2-3 weeks we can open our doors. We are dang happy.

Can't wait to see you all @ Salt. We'll keep you posted, and you keep reading!

Laurie

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Guys-

Don't know if you've seen it, but the April issue of Budget Travel features a story on Gastropubs in England. You should be able to pick up a copy, or I would be happy to mail the article to you if you are interested.
Debbi (eagerly awaiting the opening of Salt!)

Ed said...

These reporters obviously parse words to come up with a succinct quote. No reason to include all those other erroneous words.

"We, don't want people to think we are trying to be like Cheers."

Anonymous said...

Reporters (the Herald included) don't intentionally alter quotes, except sometimes to fix the speaker's grammar (to prevent the person being quoted from sounding like an idiot). I haven't seen the article, but my guess is that the reporter's notes were too sloppy to read, or that he/she just heard you wrong. Once reporters get a little more experienced (i.e., move on from the Herald) they learn to read quotes back to the person they're interviewing to make sure they have them right.