End of an Era

We will be heading home tomorrow. Sadly, a CSB tradition won't get to happen. Each of the last three years we have ended our trip with an Indian Taco at Grandma's Pancake and Steak restaurant. Grandma's has been around over thirty years, and I have been eating there for almost twenty.

Unfortunately, on December 2nd of last year Sam Parker, the smiling guy with the gift for cooking chili and frybread, passed away. Sam was a true gentleman. Grandma's closed at 2 each day, and we work at the Head Start until 2:30. When he found out who we were and why we were in Cherokee, Sam would hold the restaurant open for us and then cook us up whatever we wanted. Last summer, when my wife was complaining that she could never get her frybread to taste like the ones at Grandma's, Sam came out of the kitchen, gave her his recipe, and told her the best way to make it.

He was one of those rare genuinely good guys left on Turtle Island, and he and his magical Indian Tacos will be missed.