The cat and the correspondents’ caterer
Posted by
Jeffrey Blyth
on 19 April 2006 at 11:04
Tags: Journalism, United States
The media frenzy garnered by Molly, an 11-month old moggie that was trapped for two weeks in a hole in the wall of a food store in New York’s Greenwich Village, may in part be attributed to the fact that the owner of both the cat and the store is an Englishman from Keswick who for years has been a friend of many news people in New York.
Since his arrival in the US almost 20 years ago, Peter Myers has been providing British ex-pats with many of the delicacies they miss: veal and ham pies, Cornish pasties, Scotch eggs and Cumberland sausages.
He was a regular patron, from the start, of such newspaper hangouts as Costello’s, many of which served his home-made specialities. He also hand-delivered to journalists hankering after a taste of home.
The efforts to free Molly from her hole in the basement wall of Myers’ food shop attracted scores of journalists and resulted in stories, according to the New York Times, in papers all around the world including the Sun, plus papers in France, South Africa and Australia.
In some papers, Molly got as much space as Iraq. After her release from her hole in the wall, unharmed by her ordeal it seemed, Molly was treated to a meal of lean pork and sardines in olive oil. No black pudding for her.
Tags: Journalism, United States
