Amy Alcott - "Armand Hammer & The Butterfly Bakery" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

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Mike Gonzalez 0:16

Tell us about uh butterfly bakery.

Amy Alcott 0:20

Oh, well the butterfly bakery was a bakery in Westwood, uh not far from um well my chiropractor at the time was next door, and I used to go in and get adjusted and my back, and then I used to stop in for a piece of their crumb cake, blueberry crumb cake. And it was just kind of a neighborhood little place owned by some really nice Armenian people, the Chakmakians. And I said to them one day, I mean, they followed my golf career and they said, Wouldn't it I think it would be great. I'm just kind of getting over the tour. You know, I've been out there a long time. I'd like to come in here during the off season. It was like a passing comment. And I'd like to have a regular job, like wait on people in a bakery and help you make sandwiches and cut the brownies and all of that stuff. And he's and she said, Liz said, Amy, anytime you want to do that, as long as you put s one of those um head uh things over your head, you can come in here anytime. And I was loving it. I started in there cutting brownies and putting frosting on the carrot cake, and then I started to wait on people up front and make sandwiches. People would line up and come in and whatever. So I guess one day somebody came in there from Golf Digest magazine and um they did a whole article on me. I mean, it was a whole, it was not a you know, it was like me holding a bunch of cakes with holding with an apron on and Amy Elcut founder Nietzsche or something. But I really enjoyed that. And then another thing that happened was right around the corner was the headquarters of Occidental Petroleum. And Armin Hammer, who founded Occidental Petroleum, was still alive, and obviously they had all their they had an executive chef over there on over there, and a lot of his senior executives were golfers. And I guess word got out that Amy Alcott is like making sandwiches over at this little deli, and they'd show up in there, and then word got to him like, you know, we've got we're paying this guy like 200 grand a year to cook breakfast, dinner, lunch, and dinner, and you're going over to see this golf pro and get tuna sandwiches, you know. And I was told, I was told that he actually walked in there one day when I was out on actually out on the tour playing, because this was only a side job for me. It says, Is this Amy Alcott here? And everybody kind of looked around because a lot of people work there. What's he doing here? So anyway, I never met him, but I guess I caused a little bit of a stir stir there at the butterfly. But I really loved it. It was a lot of fun. It was a great relationship I had with this couple, they're no longer alive, and um I got to be around food, which is something I still really love. Anything related to I'm kind of a booty.

Mike Gonzalez 3:40

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Intro Music 4:04

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