Hungry for home?
Delegates who miss the Bay State can head over to Mimosa Grill in Charlotte, N.C., where homegrown Democratic operative and Democratic National Convention CEO Steve Kerrigan of Lancaster has his own burger on the menu.
Kerrigan, who calls the shots at the five-day celebration, created a pimento cheese-burger with locally roasted sweet peppers, served with a grape, feta and chili salad, according to chef Jon Fortes, who was born in Natick.
All the money raised from the burger will go to Share Our Strength, an organization looking to end child hunger in America, Fortes said.
Those who expected protesters to be storming the DNC were underwhelmed yesterday.
The turnout was better than the anemic presence at the GOP convention in Florida, but was still lackluster despite vows by the Occupy movement to arrive en masse and remind convention-goers of economic inequalities facing many.
As a massive police presence lined the streets on bikes and cruisers yesterday, only 800 to 1,000 protesters trickled past the Omni Hotel in Charlotte, though police had expected as many as 10,000.
Even the protesters’ signs were ambivalent, with one reading, “I am generally displeased with our current state of affairs.”
Delegates who miss the Bay State can head over to Mimosa Grill in Charlotte, N.C., where homegrown Democratic operative and Democratic National Convention CEO Steve Kerrigan of Lancaster has his own burger on the menu.
Kerrigan, who calls the shots at the five-day celebration, created a pimento cheese-burger with locally roasted sweet peppers, served with a grape, feta and chili salad, according to chef Jon Fortes, who was born in Natick.
All the money raised from the burger will go to Share Our Strength, an organization looking to end child hunger in America, Fortes said.
Those who expected protesters to be storming the DNC were underwhelmed yesterday.
The turnout was better than the anemic presence at the GOP convention in Florida, but was still lackluster despite vows by the Occupy movement to arrive en masse and remind convention-goers of economic inequalities facing many.
As a massive police presence lined the streets on bikes and cruisers yesterday, only 800 to 1,000 protesters trickled past the Omni Hotel in Charlotte, though police had expected as many as 10,000.
Even the protesters’ signs were ambivalent, with one reading, “I am generally displeased with our current state of affairs.”