Previous Earth fulfills Lookout Mountain

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Fontana’s in Fort Payne

FORT PAYNE, Ala. (WBRC) – Fontana’s Cafe could not be exactly what you’d be expecting to find or where by you’d hope to find it. It is a mixture of The Previous Country in the shadow of Lookout Mountain.

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“My food stuff is a blend of points that I have uncovered doing the job with Italian cooks and with Greek cooks from The Aged Place. My love for Greek foodstuff, my really like for Italian food was born when I was ready to style all these distinct and fantastic spices and flavors,” states Lookout Mountain indigenous and operator Linda Fontana.

“At the age of 50 I decided to go again to higher education and get paid my culinary arts diploma, which I did. It regenerated my adore for foods. So, for 5 many years, I’m like, ‘We’re expanding. We’re escalating, men.’ “

“My daughter-in-legislation, Angela Ballinger, she’s been correct below with me from working day one. I adore her to death.”

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Then came the Wonderful 2020 Shutdown but Linda however observed a way to provide.

“I got down on my knees and The Lord instructed me, ‘You’re My little one.’ My cellphone rang and it was a young girl I experienced fulfilled back previously in 2019. She asked me, ‘Linda, are the eating places feeding the first responders, the hospitals?’ “

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So, Lookout Mountain Group Meals was born during the pandemic.

“We fed the clinic. We fed the fire halls. We fed the write-up office. We fed the law enforcement station. We obtained out into the group and you know that’s what God was striving to tell me. ‘Get out there!’ ”

For Linda, it’s about community, food items, and appreciate.

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“That’s it. Which is particularly why I do this. I did not consider a paycheck for 5 several years, to increase my company, to fork out my debts and to have folks occur back again. I adore it. I really like it!”

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