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Rescheduled: TODAY show April 17! February 20, 2009

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Hey everybody! The TODAY show is still on, but it’s been rescheduled for April 17. More details to come!

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Can you say The Today Show with Hoda and Kathie Lee?

I am sure you are reading this post and thinking “How did 2 young guys with a cookbook get noticed by a national TV show?

Well here’s the answer : Luck, amazing family friends and having something that you really believe in (whatup Hallmark card…)
Anyone from Michigan will tell you that we help each other out there. Maybe it’s that Midwest mentality, but when people in Michigan have something to offer to another person – be it time, connections or just some good ol positive encouragement, Michiganders are quick to dish it out.

So through this Michigan networking, a family friend’s relative was given a copy of our cookbook and liked the book enough to show it around to some of her work friends. Oh yes, this family friend happens to work at the Today Show in New York City. This far flung shot in the dark actually came to fruition when we received a phone call that the Today Show was interested in us and our cookbook.

Max called me and in his typical dry, very nonchalant fashion he said something like “So I think The Today Show wants us to be on sometime.”

A week went by and Today Show called us and said “Can you clear a week of your calendar?”

We didn’t want to seem desperate and tell them that pending nuclear disaster we would be in New York at any time or day they wanted us, so we gave a few “potential dates that would work for us.”

Once the Today Show settled on March 20th, we both bought calendars and circled the date.

This post means we are only a little more than a month away from our Today show appearance. If you think we’ve slept well since we found out you are very very wrong. We’ve been ramping up our efforts and practicing our witty banter (we hope to be better than Penn and Teller and near Vince Vaughn Swingers by the time of our appearance).

In order to connect with all our web-saavy fans out there we decided to create a twitter account. Now you can now instantly follow the food musings, dinner party menus, random thoughts and blatant self promotion at FreshmanKitchen on twitter.

Max and Eli

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