From Foo Fighters to fighting for food.
Musician Dave Grohl made a surprise appearance at a Los Angeles shelter last Wednesday, making meals for tons of of hungry homeless people.
The 54-year-old Foo Fighters frontman spent 24 hours at Hope the Mission‘s Trebek Center in Northridge, cooking up 450 dinners.
The rocker’s cook-up was confirmed by Mission Director of Development Grace Ancheta, who said the star even brought along his own smoker.
Ancheta told Today that Grohl was somewhat of a BBQ expert, making brisket, ribs and pork butt.
“He arrived around 3 within the afternoon, after which he was in our kitchen,” Ancheta told the publication. “He was prepping the meat, he was cutting it up and he was there until he put it within the smoker.”
“The meat didn’t go into the smoker until midnight that night because he’s like, ‘Oh, it has to season and it has to do that,’ ” Ancheta added. “He’s definitely a craftsman in the case of that, after which he spent the night.”
Ancheta added that Grohl was “very gracious,” and happily took photos with fans who recognized him,
“He wanted no glory for it,” Ancheta insisted. “He was like, ‘I just wish to do that for you guys and provides back in that way.’ “
While working the cookout, Grohl threw his support behind Hope the Mission Founder and CEO Ken Craft and President and CFO Rowan Vansleve, who’ve each been raising money to open three latest family shelters.
Craft and Vansleve have been running 350 miles from Las Vegas to Los Angeles to lift the ultimate $350,000 needed, with Grohl giving them a number of encouraging words in a video posted to Instagram after Day 12 of their marathon.
“And in the midst of our 350-mile run to finish homelessness, we got the best video ever from Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters,” the video, posted by Craft and Vansleve, was captioned. “Not only did [he] wish us luck, but he cooked for tons of of people that live in our shelters in the midst of one in all the worst storms.”
“Nothing but love and respect for Dave,” they added, sharing a series of photos of Grohl preparing food on the shelter.
The Post reached out to Hope the Mission and Grohl’s reps for further comment.
