Made to Feel Important
A 1" warm cornbread bite with pimento cheese & hot honey — the faith planner and the president, served the same handshake
The people who flock to a great gathering are the ones who were treated as though they already mattered.
Why this bite? He makes everyone he serves feel important. This warm cornbread bite is the same handshake for the planner and the president.
The Story
Matt cut his teeth at the bottom of the asset class, serving religious meeting planners nobody else would chase, and he never changed the way he weighs a person — the faith planner and the sitting president got the same handshake. His whole career is one idea: make the overlooked players feel important, because the dispersed, unglamorous middle of this business controls a collectively colossal amount of money the wider economy never bothered to measure. This warm Southern cornbread bite with pimento cheese and hot honey is that conviction — humble, generous, regional, and served to everyone as though they already mattered.
Ingredients
- Cornbread (cut into 1" squares)
- Pimento cheese
- Hot honey
- Chives
- Smoked paprika
- Flaky salt
Preparation
- 1.Bake cornbread and cut into warm 1" squares.
- 2.Top each with a spoon of pimento cheese.
- 3.Drizzle with hot honey.
- 4.Finish with chives, smoked paprika, and flaky salt.
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